A new investigation by Land and Climate Review and The Intercept has found that Drax broke regulations while constructing a new pellet mill in Washington State.
Drax’s pellet mills violated environmental law 189 times in Canada
The UK’s largest power station began importing wood from Canadian pellet plants 12 years ago. The mills, bought by Drax Group in 2021 & 2022, have breached environmental regulations 189 times.
Lauren Sneade reads Rosetta Elkin's "Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation" and asks a controversial question: is the very concept of afforestation rooted in colonial violence?
As timber becomes more widely-used in the construction industry, our assistant editor compares new timber materials to concrete and steel, asking the question 'is wood good?'
Elizabeth Lewis (Newcastle University), Edouard Davin and Ronny Meir (both of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) discuss new research on reforestation.
Biofuels are the latest driver of plantation monocultures eroding biodiversity and Afro-Colombian culture in the Cauca Valley, says María Arango, following a new report.
Opinion
Climate crisis is exposing hard truths about commercial forestry
BY
Peter Wohlleben
Brutal management practices are making forest increasingly fragile and can no longer be ignored. State-organised forestry is slowly collapsing, says Peter Wohlleben.
Opinion
Forests of gold: carbon credits could be game-changing for Vietnam
BY
Quan-Hoang Vuong and Minh-Hoang Nguyen
Vietnam’s forests are at risk - carbon offset schemes could be the best chance of saving them, say Dr. Quan-Hoang Vuong and Minh-Hoang Nguyen
Opinion
Electric vehicles are driving deforestation in Indonesia. But they don’t have to.
BY
Amanda Hurowitz
Nickel mining must follow the reforms to the palm oil industry, not repeat its mistakes, says Mighty Earth's Amanda Hurowitz.
Opinion
Climate models need reform – the social justice risks of BECCS and afforestation show why
BY
Pamela McElwee
Removal tech will need transparency, accountability, and legitimacy to minimise impacts on local populations, says Pam McElwee
Opinion
It’s time to end subsidies for burning wood from forests
BY
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele
Trees are worth much more to humanity alive than dead, say 500 scientists in an open letter to leaders in the EU, US and East Asia
Podcasts
Adaptation, Forests
Have wildfires become a major public health risk?
Bertie speaks with Copernicus senior scientist Mark Parrington about 2025’s record-breaking wildfire pollution.
Alasdair talks to Roger Smith, Japan Director for Mighty Earth, about Japanese biomass imports and the risks of the country's coal power stations switching to wood-burning.
Can palm oil be ethical and sustainable in Indonesia?
Lauren talks to Tania Li, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, about the sustainability of the oil that's in 50% of supermarket food products - and the issues with labour and land rights in Indonesia's palm oil industry.
In this episode Alasdair MacEwen talks to Lina Burnelius of Protect the Forest Sweden about the Swedish forestry model and the threat that industry poses to biodiversity and the survival of ancient Forests.
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