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A farmer shows an unpeeled corn.

Fertilizer management could reduce ammonia pollution from 3 staple crops: Study

Claire Asher 18 Mar 2024
Breadfruit trees produce large, potato-like fruits.

Breadfruit’s low carbon storage could be offset by fast growth, study finds

Claudia Geib 5 Mar 2024
The LNG carrier Shahamah in Uraga Channel, Japan.

U.S. natural gas expansion would surrender world to fatal warming, experts say

Shanna Hanbury 27 Feb 2024
A poler bear.

Freeze on Russian collaboration disrupts urgently needed permafrost data flow

Elizabeth Devitt 20 Feb 2024
Flood victims in north-central Bangladesh in 2019.

As climate disasters claim their children, Bangladeshi mothers seek safety in bigger families

Mahadi Al Hasnat 16 Feb 2024
A herd of cows.

Agricultural nitrogen pollution is global threat, but circular solutions await

Claire Asher 16 Jan 2024
Wine bottles in a vineyard.

Some hemp with your wine? Study shows better soil, potentially flavors from intercropping

Sarah Derouin 19 Dec 2023

Ancient ocean water found in Himalayas could offer insights about evolution

Niladry Sarkar 22 Nov 2023

Indonesia launches new front in climate campaign focusing on seagrass

Basten Gokkon 21 Nov 2023
Fossils fuels are emblematic of a “take-make-waste” economic model that is pushing humanity beyond safe limits, experts say.

Circular economy poised to go beyond outdated oil, gas and coal, experts say

Sean Mowbray 16 Nov 2023
A young boy tries to help a fallen donkey stand during a severe drought that struck the Horn of Africa.

Beyond Climate: Fossil fuels rapidly eroding Earth’s ‘safe operating space’

Sean Mowbray 15 Nov 2023
Workers clean an oil spill that has polluted a beach on Salamina Island, Greece.

Beyond climate: Oil, gas and coal are destabilizing all 9 planetary boundaries

Sean Mowbray 14 Nov 2023
Rice farmers in Vietnam

Dam-building on Mekong poses risk to regional industries, report says

Carolyn Cowan 8 Nov 2023
Regenerative agriculture methods, such as green cover crops, help Santiaga Sánchez’s farm better withstand persistent drought punctuated by sudden violent storms.

Battling desertification: Bringing soil back to life in semiarid Spain

Jaime Velázquez, Xaume Olleros 17 Oct 2023
Santiaga Sánchez seated atop a pile of compost she calls her “brown gold.”

Meet the farmers in southeastern Spain fighting desertification

Jaime Velázquez, Xaume Olleros 17 Oct 2023
A muddied river.

Muddied tropical rivers reveal magnitude of global gold mining boom: Study

Shanna Hanbury 5 Sep 2023
Greville's bolete, which has a mycorrhizal relationship with larch trees.

Machine learning helps researchers identify underground fungal networks

Abhishyant Kidangoor 4 Aug 2023
Tridi Oasis recycles PET bottles to produce rPET flakes which could be used to make packing materials and textiles.

Funding circularity: Investing in Asia’s circular economy business models

Abhishyant Kidangoor 1 Aug 2023
A farmer in Colombia checks her coffee bushes.

The circular economy: Sustainable solutions to solve planetary overshoot?

Sean Mowbray 27 Jul 2023

Climate emergency may channel millions in resources toward corn-based ethanol in the Amazon

Fábio Bispo, O Joio e o Trigo 3 Jul 2023
A black beetle.

Sounds of the soil: A new tool for conservation?

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Jun 2023

Microbes play leading role in soil carbon capture, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 27 Jun 2023
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Rare Amazon dark soils could help forest restoration, study shows

Juliana Ennes 14 Jun 2023

Mycorrhizal fungi hold CO2 equivalent to a third of global fossil fuel emissions

Liz Kimbrough 13 Jun 2023

Award-winning community group in Sumatra cleans up lake

Jaka Hendra Baittri 6 Jun 2023
Trees by the side of streets in Brooklyn, U.S.

Soil carbon in urban parks important in fighting climate change, study shows

Priscilla Misiekaba-Kia 5 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

In Nepal, Chepang take up the challenge to revive their cultural keystone tree

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 May 2023
The purple frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis), an ancient species that lived during the dinosaurs, calls small crevices around rocky streams home. Landslides can alter their habitats drastically. Image by David V Raju via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

As tourism booms in India’s Western Ghats, habitat loss pushes endangered frogs to the edge

Spoorthy Raman 22 May 2023

An Asian grass helps Mexican farmers build resilience to climate change

Sandra Weiss 22 May 2023

Overlooked and underfoot, mosses play a mighty role for climate and soil

Liz Kimbrough 22 May 2023
Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia.

Robust river governance key to restoring Mekong River vitality in face of dams

Carolyn Cowan 30 Mar 2023

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