As environmentalists and politicians rally around the inclusion of avoided deforestation projects in an international climate change agreement, some big questions about forest and land ownership loom unanswered. A new report released yesterday by the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development aims to address some of those questions by promoting debate among reduced deforestation stakeholders about current land rights and institutions in countries with tropical rainforests, like Brazil and Indonesia. Go to story #1

Schoolchildren are being reintroduced to an old concept. It is called "active transportation." Students in a handful of cities involved in this experiment probably don't think much about the carbon emissions they are preventing as they navigate their bicycles toward beeping devices that count their rides to school. But a growing number of teachers and parents see a variety of benefits from putting kids back on the wheels that earlier generations took for granted. Getting kids to ride now, they say, will build momentum for cycling habits they can carry into adulthood. Go to story #2