NYT Logging Industry

Governments bet billions on burning timber for green power. The Times went deep into one of the continent’s oldest woodlands to track the hidden cost.

Readers discuss an essay by Carole King calling for a ban on commercial logging in national forests. Also: Doppelgängers; cultural exchange with Russia; death row pardons.

Biden should take all steps available to stop commercial logging on federal land.

A Times reporter, Dionne Searcey, traveled the Congo river to explore a dangerous logging trade that officials say is rife with corruption. Here is some of what she saw.

Logging tends to increase, not decrease, extreme fires.

To understand the perilous, often illegal logging industry in the Congo Basin, we needed to get out on the water ourselves.

Lyndsie Bourgon’s “Tree Thieves” casts the American environmental movement in all its complexity.