The Magazine of The Sierra Club
The Demand for Conflict-Linked Palm Oil Now Comes From Fuel, Not Food
Palm oil is powering cars and could soon show up in airplanes
forests
Can Old-Growth Forest Survive a Timber Bias?
The agency tasked with managing old-growth forests struggles to shake its old ways
Moving Slightly Southern Trees to New England Could Help Forests Survive Climate Change
Silviculture trials explore swapping in trees closely related to northeastern varieties
When Slash Fuels Fire
A lack of funding and personnel hampers efforts to clean up debris piles
Here’s How the New Old-Growth Amendment Could Put Forests at Risk
Conservation groups say federal agencies are missing an opportunity to save remaining old growth
Resurrecting Southern Appalachia’s Sky Islands
Red spruce is being replanted to reinvigorate one of the most endangered ecosystems
Hotter Temperatures Are Causing Trees to Have Heat Strokes
How climate-change-driven drying of the air is leading to tree deaths the world over
The Giant Douglas Fir Tree in My Backyard Is a Time Machine
This portal to the fourth dimension shows how the past can inspire the future
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The Northeast Has Unexpected Old-Growth Forests That Survived Colonial Axes
Expanding the remaining patches may hold the key to ecological resilience in the centuries to come
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For Arbor Day, Let’s Reclaim the Term “Treehugger”
The backstory on what is sometimes an insult
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