Deforestation and climate change are intimately connected: Globally, deforestation releases nearly 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, and is responsible for nearly 25 percent of man-made CO2 emissions. Lets work together to TAKE ACTION

The lower 48 states in the U.S. have the potential to store an additional 3-7 billion metric tons of carbon in forests, if agricultural lands were to be used for planting forests - equivalent to 2 to 4 years of America's current fossil fuels emmissions.

To bring the Atlantic Forest back from the brink of extinction, over eighty environmental organizations, private companies, governments, researchers, and landowners launched in the Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact.

Watch this video showing the work of Stream Team - healing the earth one forest at a time...And find out how YOU can be part of effort!

In a potentially valuable boost to fighting climate change, rich and poor countries are close to an agreement to end the destruction of the world's forests in 20 years, government negotiators said.

Forests store an estimated 300 billion tons of carbon, or the equivalent of 40 times the world's total annual greenhouse-gas emissions -- emissions that cause global warming. Destroy the trees and you release that carbon into the atmosphere ...

Most experts agree that we are losing upwards of 80,000 acres of tropical rainforest daily ... Along with this loss and degradation, we are losing some 135 plant, animal and insect species every day--or some 50,000 species a year--as the forests fall.

Thousands of Care2 members have submitted signatures to the Environmental Protection Agency in the last few years urging the U.S. government to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This week, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson took a critical first step..

North America's primary forests have a big role in preventing climate change. They need our protection...

Prince Charles of Great Britain has emerged as one of the world's highest-profile promoters of a scheme that could finally put an end to destruction of tropical rainforests.