Illegal logging has significant environmental, economic, and societal costs. To address these impacts, implementation of the Lacey Act must be a priority.

Over the last decade much of the land for vegetable oil production, particularly palm and soybean oil, has come at the expense of tropical forests.

In order to act effectively to reduce deforestation, we must understand the complex forces that drive it.

Setting deforestation reference levels is a complex and contentious issue. But we should not let it delay REDD+ implementation.

Brazil's remarkable success in reducing deforestation is setting an example for the rest of the world.

A variety of forestry practices can be used to achieve “the plus side” of REDD+ policies, while meeting strict standards for protecting the environment and local cultures.

Deforestation is driven by large commercial enterprises, not subsistence farmers—and our strategies for reducing deforestation should reflect this.

The new treaty limits the number of deployed warheads for each country to 1,550 as well as limits the number of both deployed and non-deployed delivery systems.

We set out to examine the long-term economic and environmental costs and benefits of increasing the renewable electricity and energy efficiency standards.

California’s Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32) requires California to cut its global warming pollution to 1990 levels by 2020.