And now for some good news: A new study finds that forests are experiencing a regrowth — and not just in the United States.

Many residents of the Rocky Mountain West have been up in arms lately over the President's plan to sell off public lands. Their new hero may be an unlikely one: Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig, who said he won't let the plan make it through his Senate subcommittee.

Craig, who controls the Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands, believes selling public lands is bad policy. His spokesman told a reporter, "I don't really see it going anywhere in Congress."

Planting trees may not be as perenially green as you might think – at least that’s what scientists at Duke University found. Tree-planting is generally viewed as a no-brainer