CONSERVATION NEWS

A recent article claims that buying carbon offsets for your flight doesn't help the climate crisis. This conclusion is bafflingly wrong: Paying to protect an area of forest to offset the climate footprint of your flight does in fact — demonstrably and verifiably — help.

Business leaders recognize the urgency of the climate crisis — and are taking action, according to a new report.

In case you missed it: Rising temperatures are disrupting peoples’ slumber, carbon offsets are helping the Indigenous Hadza people protect the forests they depend on and elephants are consuming massive amounts of plastic from dumpsters in India.

The recent IPCC climate report was bleak, but there are silver linings. Our expert weighs in.

In case you missed it: Carbon markets could help countries meet their climate goals, tree experts are taking on timber trafficking and a rapidly spreading disease is jeopardizing eelgrass.