Tropical forests are hot, steamy places. But when large numbers of trees are cut down, they get even hotter

Jacobus Oma looked sadly at the stockpile of several hundred ancient rosewoods he had just helped to load onto a Chinese-owned truck in northeastern Namibia. Some were centuries old, so large they dwarfed his small frame.

Plastics, plastics everywhere! That's most likely because they take hundreds of years to biodegrade, becoming some of the world's largest polluters.

Despite misinformation to the contrary, using wood from sustainably managed forests to make things like paper and packaging can help the environment.

Paper products may seem like the ultimate green technology. They are recyclable, biodegradable, and renewable.

Forests are not just the lungs of the Planet: