Forests cover nearly a third of the Earth’s land surface, and healthy forests are therefore huge reservoirs for the absorption and storage of carbon. The wood of trees is a superb carbon sink - one that absorbs more CO2 than it releases- in that it holds a large amount of carbon, lasts a relatively long…

Today we are witnessing the toll of climate change in different parts of the world. There are droughts in Africa and in South America, devastating floods in Australia and in Asia, for example, Pakistan and Thailand, and heat waves and extreme cold in Europe and Asia. In North America also, the severe impact of temperature…