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Pacific Island nations propose ecocide be adopted as international crime

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Sep 2024
Before and after of a restoration project in Spain. Image courtesy of AlVelAl.

Why I quit the film industry to work on ecological restoration (commentary)

John D. Liu 12 Sep 2024
Benjakitti Forest Park

Bangkok turns to urban forests to beat worsening floods

Claire Turrell 10 Sep 2024

In Venezuela, natural regeneration helps restore a threatened cloud forest

María Fernanda Rodríguez 10 Sep 2024
CO2e emissions between 1850-2018 imposed over warming stripes graphic depicting annual mean global temperatures (1850-2018, from World Meteorological Organization data). Credit for general concept of warming stripes: climate scientist Ed Hawkins, University of Reading. Data values are visualized using color rather than locations of points on a graph. Horizontal scale is time, from 1850 (left) to 2018 (right). Data is global (not for a locality). This is an early, original chart from Dr. Hawkins, and should not be updated as the years pass. Update: newer versions of the warming stripes under more permissive CC‑BY‑4.0 licensing available here: showyourstripes.info Date 4 December 2018 Source Hawkins, Ed

Action at Scale: Elizabeth Yee on The Rockefeller Foundation’s Climate Strategy

Matthew Boyer, Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Sep 2024
Holding their communities' titles are Apu Juan Jarana Pérez from San Alberto de Morona community, Apa Elizethy Cruz Ponciano from San Jose de Yanayacu community, and Pedro Alcidez Pérez Peña from Sargento Lores de Camote Isla community. Image courtesy of Sacha Cine/Rainforest Foundation US.

Record number of Indigenous land titles granted in Peru via innovative process (commentary)

Miguel Guimaraes Vasquez, Wendy Pineda 6 Sep 2024

Indonesia’s Farwiza Farhan among Ramon Magsaysay awardees for protecting Leuser Ecosystem

Lusia Arumingtyas, Sapariah Saturi 2 Sep 2024
Event announcement. Goodall photo by Jeff Horowitz.

Jane Goodall is coming to San Francisco. Her event is sold out, but students can still get free tickets

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Aug 2024

Sea lions with video cameras help scientists map ocean floor

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Aug 2024
Farmers on rice terraces in Bali.

In Bali, water temple priests guide a sustainable rice production system

Elizabeth Sinclair 26 Aug 2024

How a fun women’s gathering led to small wildcat conservation in Peru’s Andes

James Hall 22 Aug 2024

New species of skate is named, 35 years since its discovery off Madagascar

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Aug 2024
Traditional healers use the smoke from the coals of a yellow wood tree (Podocarpus latifolius) to cleanse a cattle herd of problematic spirits and stop the animals from fighting.

‘Everything is a being’ for South Africa’s amaMpondo fighting to protect nature

Leonie Joubert 19 Aug 2024
Women in the São João da Ponta Extractive Reserve fish for crabs on the Mocajuba River in the Amazonian mangroves of northern Brazil.

Brazil’s ‘Mothers of the Mangroves’ protect an ecological and cultural heritage

Sarah Brown 19 Aug 2024

Recently hatched baby skate offers hope for endangered Tasman species

Mongabay.com 19 Aug 2024
Entrepreneur Namita Mondal is watering mangrove saplings at her nursery.

In the Sundarbans, women are embracing mangrove restoration as an alternative livelihood

Sadiqur Rahman 15 Aug 2024
Two men planting trees in the Yokadouma Council Forest, Cameroon. Image courtesy WWF.

Reforestation to capture carbon could be done much more cheaply, study says

Liz Kimbrough 14 Aug 2024
Building a pergola at the entrance to the Cocotá Agroforest, 2023. Image courtesy of Cocotá Agroforest collective.

Rio’s grassroots agroforestry sustains birds, bees & communities

Bernardo Araujo 13 Aug 2024

South Africa adopts a new climate change law

Bobby Bascomb 9 Aug 2024

In a fight to save a rare bird, Indigenous communities in Guyana are winning

Carla Ruas 5 Aug 2024

Ants perform life-saving amputations on injured nestmates, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 2 Aug 2024
Batwa women in Uganda.

Indigenous Batwa win human rights victory over eviction from DRC park

Bobby Bascomb 2 Aug 2024

Six new natural sites added to UNESCO World Heritage List

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Aug 2024

Cambodia’s largest mangrove forest is ‘teeming with life,’ biodiversity survey finds

Anton L. Delgado 30 Jul 2024
Cacao pod in Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

New relatives of the cacao tree uncovered in old plant collections

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jul 2024

First-ever video of Amazon weasel recorded in Bolivia

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Jul 2024

Rare mutant blue-skinned frog spotted in Australia

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Jul 2024

Incredibly rare Iberian lynx making a “dramatic recovery”

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Jul 2024
The two-stage Falcon 9 launch vehicle lifts off Space Launch Complex 40 carrying the SpaceX’s Dragon resupply spacecraft to the ISS.

Space mission that maps forests in 3D makes an early comeback

Abhishyant Kidangoor 17 Jul 2024
Male tiger camera trap image

Thai tiger numbers swell as prey populations stabilize in western forests

Carolyn Cowan 17 Jul 2024

‘Extinct’ trees found in Tanzania spark hope for ecosystem recovery

Ryan Truscott 16 Jul 2024

In Peru, conservationists and archaeologists unite to save a threatened gecko

James Hall 10 Jul 2024

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