“It would be wonderful if Peru could pick its monitoring system and establish a reference level by the COP in Lima.”

A hidden gradient of salinity stretches beneath mangroves. To understand how climate change affects this, it must first be measured.

  NEW YORK—The outcomes of the recent UN Climate Summit offer an opportunity for mainstreaming a more holistic approach to forests, climate change and development, according to Peter Holmgren, director general of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). It will be up to the science community to do something … to provide the knowledge... Read more

Forests will be high on the agenda amid the negotiations, debates and search for solutions – and rightfully so.

The smoke drifting over Singapore from burning Indonesian peatlands highlights the need for more research.

"The reason we’re making this public is really about outreach and awareness raising," said CIFOR scientist Louis Verchot.

There’s never one single factor that can lead to an outcome, because everything changes with the context.

The world is losing 50 soccer fields’ worth of forests every minute.

Points of divergence and convergence are beginning to crystallize, suggests new article published in Forests Climate Change.

Toolkit aims to understand how forests contribute to community adaptation strategies.