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The Future of Extreme Heat in Cities: What We Know — and What We Don’t

  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Development
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate impacts
  • climate science
  • COP28
Brick layers during in a heatwave in New Delhi, India
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Development
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate impacts
  • climate science
  • COP28

5 Ways Wildfires Affect People Near and Far

  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • fires
  • Climate
  • Cities
Women wear masks in New York City after Canadian wildfire causes dangerous air pollution
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • fires
  • Climate
  • Cities

4 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2023

  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • U.S. Climate
  • stories to watch
People dressed in warm clothes on bicycles carrying reusable shopping bags.
  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • U.S. Climate
  • stories to watch
A road leading into the woods with a welcome sign
  • Forests
  • forest monitoring
  • fires
A "restoration in progress" sign against the backdrop of a wetland
  • Cities
  • Forests

How to Protect Forest Carbon in a Fire-prone Future

  • Climate
  • U.S. Climate
  • Forests
  • carbon removal
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Lands
Forest Service firefighters dig a fireline on a steep-sloped mountain to suppress fire in National Forest.
  • Climate
  • U.S. Climate
  • Forests
  • carbon removal
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Lands
  • Cities
  • Forests
  • Forest and Landscape Restoration

The Upstream Battle to Protect Drinking Water in North Carolina

  • Freshwater
  • Forests
  • natural infrastructure
A small lake with trees in the background in North Carolina's Triangle region
  • Freshwater
  • Forests
  • natural infrastructure
Initiatives
Ariel shot of a city with lots of trees.

5 Big Ideas to Address the Climate Crisis and Inequality in Cities

  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Climate Resilience
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Transformations
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Cities
  • climate change
  • Urban Development
  • COP26
People gather in the middle of a Monterrey street during sunset
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Climate Resilience
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Transformations
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Cities
  • climate change
  • Urban Development
  • COP26

3 Ways President Biden and Congress Can Restore US Forests

  • Forests
  • carbon removal
  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • U.S. policy
Pine trees in Rampart Lakes at dawn.
  • Forests
  • carbon removal
  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • U.S. policy

6 Graphics Explain the Climate Feedback Loop Fueling US Fires

  • Forests
  • fires
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • climate impacts
Bobcat Fire, as seen from Monrovia, California
  • Forests
  • fires
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • climate impacts
Rendering of the proposed Brooklyn Bridge Forest
  • Cities
  • Forests

Want to Help the US Economy? Rethink the Trillion Trees Act

  • Forests
  • carbon removal
  • coronavirus
  • climate policy
  • restoration
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Lands
Planting trees with Nature Conservancy
  • Forests
  • carbon removal
  • coronavirus
  • climate policy
  • restoration
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Lands

How and Where to Plant 60 Billion Trees in the US

  • U.S. Climate
  • Forests
  • carbon removal
  • restoration
U.S. Forest Service ranger walking in a timber area in Pisgah National Forest
  • U.S. Climate
  • Forests
  • carbon removal
  • restoration

Will Mexico’s Growing Avocado Industry Harm Its Forests?

  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Forests
Avocado
  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Forests

Hundreds of US Communities Are Making Climate Action Plans, but Few Include Forests

  • Sustainable Development Goal 15
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • Forests
Angeles National Forest
  • Sustainable Development Goal 15
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • Forests
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset