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The Biden administration has called for protecting mature US forests to slow climate change, but it's still allowing them to be logged

  • Written by Beverly Law, Professor Emeritus of Global Change Biology and Terrestrial Systems Science, Oregon State University
The Biden administration has called for protecting mature US forests to slow climate change, but it's still allowing them to be loggedAn old-growth tree that was cut in Alaska's Tongass National Forest. Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Forests are critically important for slowing climate change. They remove huge quantities of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere – 30% of all fossil fuel emissions annually – and store carbon in trees and soils. Old and...

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