Environment America’s 2024 highlights
Five highlights of how our advocacy and action in 2024 put our country and our world on a greener, healthier, more sustainable path.
Forests
Keeping our forests healthy, whole and wild.
The trees that make up our forests are some of the oldest living things on Earth, many of them older than America itself. These forests provide crucial habitat for thousands of species. They provide limitless opportunities for recreation, exploration and wonder. What’s more, our forests absorb and store carbon dioxide, which makes them crucial allies in our race against climate change. Together we can protect our forests from road-building, logging, development and other threats.
The Latest on Forests
Help protect the Tongass, Earth’s largest temperate rainforest
STATEMENT: Procter & Gamble commits to clarifying wood pulp sourcing policies
Updates
What’s the best Halloween candy that doesn’t hurt forests?
In nature, fewer sounds abound
Featured Resources
The Biden administration has released $1 billion in funding for urban trees. Here’s why that matters.
Journey Through the Tongass
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The Antiquities Act is meant to protect America’s natural and cultural treasures forever. Is the Act itself in danger?
The Antiquities Act has played a crucial role in protecting many of America's most treasured landscapes. We take it for granted at our peril.
What are the benefits of urban trees in cities?
Urban trees are good for people and wildlife. They keep us healthy and make us happy.
This summer is a critical moment to defend our forests
With logging projects encroaching on our oldest trees, we need to call on the U.S. Forest Service to protect these forests now.
How Girls Scouts prepared me to become an environmental advocate
Leadership, service experiences, and time spent in nature as a Girl Scout helped me find my calling
What can we do to keep the boreal forest from being flushed away?
The towering trees of the boreal forest are being turned into toilet paper that gets flushed away forever. We’re telling Procter & Gamble, the maker of Charmin and other paper products, to go forest-free.