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The Manobo Houses float along the waterways of Lake Panlabuhan in the Agusan Marsh.

Philippines’ largest freshwater wetland and Indigenous livelihoods face multiple threats

Jewel S. Cabrera 26 Jul 2023
An Andean motmot.

‘What we need to protect and why’: 20-year Amazon research hints at fate of tropics

Justin Catanoso 24 Jul 2023

Green gains: Localized efforts leave a mark, notably in drier areas, study shows

Malavika Vyawahare 24 Jul 2023
A woman carries firewood out of the Mkingu Forest Nature Reserve.

From cardamom to carbon: Bold new Tanzanian project is regrowing a rainforest

Ryan Truscott 18 Jul 2023
Coral reef, ocean, mangroves, and forest.

New digital tool maps blue carbon ecosystems in high resolution

Abhishyant Kidangoor 12 Jun 2023
A boreal owl, a single-brooded species.

Climate warming alters offspring production of birds, study shows

Neha Jain 8 Jun 2023
A view over Brazil’s Florestal Reserve Adolpho Ducke.

Protected areas store a year’s worth of CO₂ emissions, study reveals

Sean Mowbray 2 Jun 2023
Huge logs are delivered daily to the Koh Kong provincial prison in Cambodia

Forest behind bars: Logging network operating out of Cambodian prison in the Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn 26 May 2023
David Antonioli at COP15 in 2009.

Head of Verra, top carbon credit certifier, to leave in June

John Cannon 25 May 2023

Inaugural Indigenous women’s forum spotlights Congo Basin conservation

Elodie Toto 10 May 2023
The Bungule Women's Group, where women engage in entrepreneurial activities like producing arts and crafts.

Indigenous groups voice support for REDD+, despite flaws

John Cannon 9 May 2023
Dominick DellaSala, chief scientist with Oregon-based NGO Wild Heritage walks on a trail.

The U.S. has cataloged its forests. Now comes the hard part: Protecting them

Justin Catanoso 27 Apr 2023
Shigeatsu Hatakeyama at a tree-planting festival

Saving forests to protect coastal ecosystems: Japan sets historic example

Annelise Giseburt 27 Apr 2023

Return of the GEDI: Space-based, forest carbon-mapping laser array saved

Abhishyant Kidangoor 17 Apr 2023
Eurasian lynx mother and cub.

Could biodiversity be a key to better forest carbon storage in Europe?

Mark Hillsdon 13 Apr 2023
Farmers winnowing harvested rice.

Amid changing climate, Bangladesh farming groups conserve indigenous rice seeds

Abu Siddique 3 Apr 2023
A Porcupine Caribou.

A caribou hunter and researchers uncover the impact of climate change on Arctic hunting

Evan Bourtis 31 Mar 2023
A Baird's tapir walking at night through her natural habitat.

Rewilding animals could be key for climate: Report

Liz Kimbrough 30 Mar 2023
Clouds reflected in a lake in the Amazon Rainforest.

Newly published carbon market standards aim to increase integrity, confidence

John Cannon 30 Mar 2023
A polar bear surveys its icy Arctic surroundings.

Southern atmospheric rivers drive irreversible melting of Arctic sea ice: Study

Alec Luhn 23 Mar 2023
Soraida Chindoy, 38, Indigenous leader from the Inga community of the Condagua reservation. She has been part of the movement to stop the mining project from the beginning. Image by Antonio Cascio for Mongabay.

Plan to mine ‘clean energy’ metals in Colombian Amazon splits communities

Natalia Torres Garzón 22 Mar 2023
Jaguar in a river in Mexico. Photo credit: Gerardo Ceballos

In Calakmul, water troughs offer possible solution to human-wildlife conflict

Sean Mowbray 22 Mar 2023
A snow leopard captured by a camera trap.

As Himalayas thaw, snow leopards scramble for habitat: Q&A with Bikram Shrestha

Abhaya Raj Joshi 14 Mar 2023
Trees in the plains of Sahel.

Scientists map nearly 10 billion trees, stored carbon, in Africa’s drylands

John Cannon 10 Mar 2023
Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus).

Climate change is exacerbating human-wildlife conflict, but solutions await: Study

Tim Vernimmen 3 Mar 2023
A snow leopard in the Himalayan landscape.

Himalayan catfight looms as tigers, leopards venture into snow leopard land

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Feb 2023
Aerial image of a reforestation program in the DRC.

Carbon market intermediaries act with little transparency, according to report

John Cannon 24 Feb 2023
Tropical flora in Wayqecha cloud forests in Andes, Peru.

Carbon uptake in tropical forests withers in drier future: Study

John Cannon 23 Feb 2023
Ismail in Mount Gede, Indonesia, cutting dead twigs to be used as firewood.

Updated guide gives practical advice for buyers of tropical forest carbon credits

John Cannon 9 Feb 2023
A black bear stands onshore looking at four tundra swans on the water.

Peatland restoration in temperate nations could be carbon storage bonanza

Jeremy Hance 9 Feb 2023
A blackwater oxbow lake in the Peruvian Amazon.

Forest modeling misses the water for the carbon: Q&A with Antonio Nobre & Anastassia Makarieva

Judith D. Schwartz 7 Feb 2023
Karen Kimani waters her tree nursery.

Kenya’s youngest environmental ambassador: Q&A with 10-year-old Karen Kimani

Mactilda Mbenywe 3 Feb 2023

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