New York – A year ago, the New York Declaration on Forests set a daring goal: a world without deforestation. But it didn’t lay out a plan for how to get there. The agreement – to cut deforestation in half by 2020, and eliminate it entirely by 2030 – was signed by 30 national […]
Forget about finding the needle in the haystack. An even more complicated task might be counting all the hay on the farm. A new study documents the results of just such a search, undertaken across the globe, to count the number of tree species found in the planet’s tropical forests. By the authors’ estimate—all 143 […]