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Harvested American ginseng.

As US agroforestry grows, federal funding freeze leaves farmers in the lurch

Sarah Derouin 1 Apr 2025

Nepal’s forest-protecting communities may miss out on World Bank carbon funds

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Dec 2024

Seeking solutions in Indigenous knowledge: Interview with the Maldives’ Mohamed Nasheed

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 23 Nov 2024

Nepal’s railway rerouting plan to avoid Chitwan park sparks fiery backlash

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jul 2024
A man on an e-bike.

E-bikes could cut smog, energy use and congestion globally — but will they?

Charles Pekow 1 Apr 2024
A car charging.

This year’s ranking of EV carmakers from most to least ‘clean’: Report

Ian Morse 28 Mar 2024
Cows in a farm with trees.

New U.S. agroforestry project will pay farmers to expand ‘climate-smart’ acres

Sarah Derouin 25 Mar 2024
Aerial view of a road.

Study: Tricky balancing act between EV scale-up and mining battery metals

Liz Kimbrough 8 Sep 2023
Traffic on road.

EVs offer climate hope, but total auto supply chain revamp is vital

Sean Mowbray 10 Aug 2023
Aerial view of traffic.

Internal combustion vs. EVs: Learning from the past to boost sustainability

Sean Mowbray 9 Aug 2023
A forest in Indonesia.

Asian Development Bank’s climate commitments require greater accountability (commentary)

Radhika Goyal 12 Jul 2023

Nepal’s hydropower boom is killing birds via power lines

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 May 2023

Sri Lanka aims to restore ancient irrigation tanks in climate change plan

Malaka Rodrigo 22 Apr 2023
On 22 June 2022 the farmers protest started in the Netherlands. Tractors from all over the country drove to Stroe. This picture was taken along the A27 near Houten, just in front of the Lunetten interchange. Image by Frank Magdelyns from Pixabay.

For Dutch farming crisis, agroforestry offers solutions: Q&A with Lennart Fuchs & Marc Buiter

Peter Speetjens 21 Mar 2023

IPCC report calls for ‘immediate and deep’ carbon cuts to slow climate change

John Cannon 5 Apr 2022

New IPCC climate report stresses Indigenous & local land rights 58 times: let’s respond with a concrete tenure plan (commentary)

Anna Locke, Malcolm Childress 3 Mar 2022

COP27 must deliver climate finance where it is needed most (commentary)

Jack Stuart, Sally Yozell, Valentine Ochanda 20 Jan 2022
dolphin

Pingers on fishing nets found to save river dolphins in Indonesian Borneo

Carolyn Cowan 29 Oct 2021

Idea that electric cars might produce as much emissions as fossil-fueled vehicles ‘essentially a myth’

Mongabay.com 25 Mar 2020

Tree plantations are not a climate solution (commentary)

Global Forest Coalition 20 Mar 2020

How cities can lead the fight against climate change using urban forestry and trees (commentary)

Chad Papa and Lauren Cooper 27 Nov 2019

Nature-based climate action no longer ‘the forgotten solution’

Mike Gaworecki 27 Sep 2019

‘Screen, not just green’ infrastructure projects to help economies and the environment

John Cannon 26 Jun 2018

Pearl Jam invests in Amazonian reforestation to offset emissions from current Brazil tour

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2018

On an island of plenty, a community tempered by waves braces for rising seas

Ridzki R. Sigit 27 Feb 2018

Fighting climate change with bioenergy may do ‘more harm than good’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 26 Dec 2017

Here’s a great way to visualize the huge potential of forest conservation and restoration as ‘natural climate solutions’

Mike Gaworecki 6 Dec 2017

New research shows why forests are absolutely essential to meeting Paris Climate Agreement goals

Mike Gaworecki 9 Nov 2017

Groundwater may play key role in forest fires

Sandhya Sekar 16 Jun 2017

Forest conservation might be an even more important climate solution than we realize: Study

Mike Gaworecki 19 Apr 2017

Big surprise in the greenhouse: study finds economic costs of climate change hugely underestimated

Glenn Scherer 30 Mar 2015

Climate change solution? UN touts ambitious (but cheap) investment in renewable energy

Jeremy Hance 14 Apr 2014

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