Stories by Lauren E. Oakes

Lauren E. Oakes is a conservation scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, an adjunct professor in the Department of Earth System Science at Stanford University, and the author of In Search of the Canary Tree (Basic Books, 2018); she works with Trillion Trees, a joint venture focused on improving forest protection and restoration practices.

The Real Cost of Planting Trees

Careful monitoring and up-front investment are necessary to ensure reforestation efforts yield benefits for communities and biodiversity

Fighting the pandemic from home and for home

We need to focus on responses to climate change that both reduce emissions and help people cope with an altered environment

Communities are learning how to reshape landscapes ravaged by climate impacts

In the first of three posts, an ecologist looks at how citizens and planners are responding to the threat