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New coating could help seeds survive in drought conditions

As populations grow, how will thirsty cities survive their drier futures?

Scientists look to wheatgrass to save dryland farming and capture carbon

2015-2016 El Niño caused 2.5 billion trees to die in just 1% of the Amazon

Mexico devises revolutionary method to reverse semiarid land degradation

A world of hurt: 2021 climate disasters raise alarm over food security

Lessons from Brazil’s São Paulo droughts (commentary)

New index measuring rainforest vulnerability to sound alarm on tipping points

Amazon and Cerrado deforestation, warming spark record drought in urban Brazil

Hotter and drier: Deforestation and wildfires take a toll on the Amazon

Humanity’s challenge of the century: Conserving Earth’s freshwater systems

As Amazon forest-to-savanna tipping point looms, solutions remain elusive

Dusty winds exacerbate looming famine in Madagascar’s deep south

Cat fight: Jaguar ambushes ocelot in rare camera trap footage

We’re approaching critical climate tipping points: Q&A with Tim Lenton

Industrial agriculture threatens a wetland oasis in Bolivia

Top environment stories from Madagascar in 2020

In Madagascar’s hungry south, drought pushes more than 1 million to brink of famine

‘CSI Amazon’: Epic study looks at what’s killing the rainforest’s trees

Chinese demand and domestic instability are wiping out Senegal’s last forests

For global wetlands, intensifying droughts pose a ‘diabolical’ threat

At-risk Cerrado mammals need fully-protected parks to survive: Researchers

Fire burns Pantanal’s upland heart and threatens nature’s fragile balance

The Amazon savanna? Rainforest teeters on the brink as climate heats up

Why the health of the Amazon River matters to us all: An interview with Michael Goulding

Fires in Argentina’s Paraná Delta are burning ‘out of control’

Deforestation in the Amazon is drying up the rest of Brazil: Report

Scientists measure Amazon drought and deforestation feedback loop: Study

Corn growers in Brazil’s Cerrado reap a hostile climate of their own making

Forests are a solution to climate change. They’re also vulnerable to it

One-two punch of drought, pandemic hits Madagascar’s poor and its wildlife

Conservation insights from an enormous aspen clone: Q&A with ecologist Paul Rogers

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