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Oysters could help fight climate change, study finds

Bobby Bascomb 16 Sep 2025
Satellite image of Lake Chad. Image courtesy of Maxar.

Ani Dasgupta watched wetlands tame floods in Kigali. He believes nature is infrastructure we can fund.

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Sep 2025

Indonesia’s giant Java seawall plan sparks criticism & calls for alternatives

Basten Gokkon 11 Sep 2025
An Indian pond heron or paddybird (Ardeola grayii) in a pond in Nepal.

In Nepal, artificial ponds offer drought relief despite lingering doubts

Mukesh Pokhrel 28 Aug 2025
After separating the edible pulp, the leftover enset fibers are collected and used to make durable household items like ropes, mats and baskets. Image by Solomon Yimer for Mongabay.

Ethiopian initiatives try to mainstream traditional and resilient enset crop in diets

Solomon Yimer 20 Aug 2025
View of central Kampala.

From counting trees to enhancing climate resiliency, Kampala focuses on its forests

Victoria Schneider 15 Aug 2025
Kicker Rock in the Galápagos, Ecuador. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

In ‘Hope Dies Last,’ author Alan Weisman chronicles the people fighting for the planet

Mike DiGirolamo 5 Aug 2025
Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

From deforestation to renewal: Why reforestation isn’t just about trees

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Jul 2025
Urban greenspace in Bangkok

As tree planting gathers pace in Bangkok, urban green spaces still under threat

Carolyn Cowan 10 Jun 2025
Banner image: Schoolchildren walk to school in Niamey, Niger in 2013.

Urban forests in Niger’s schoolyards serve climate resilience and education

Victoria Schneider 26 May 2025

Agroforestry can reduce deforestation, but supportive policies matter, study finds

Carolyn Cowan 21 Apr 2025
floods

Honduras pays the climate cost as its forests disappear and storms rise

Mie Hoejris Dahl 9 Apr 2025
A tagged vulture in Zambia as part of ongoing population monitoring efforts. Malasa says she hopes the findings of the recent report can galvanize conservation support for vultures across Africa. Image courtesy of BirdWatch Zambia.

Conserving vultures in Southern Africa may provide substantial economic gain: Report

Sean Mowbray 7 Apr 2025
Harvested American ginseng.

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

Sarah Derouin 1 Apr 2025
mangrove conservation

Colombia’s women clam collectors protect Pacific mangroves and mollusks

Catherine Ellis 1 Apr 2025
Two people sit in conversation on a bench beside a path along a stream in Karurua forest, Nairobi, Kenya. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ninara/51944328733/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

African forum on urban forests calls for greater access to green spaces

Victoria Schneider 25 Mar 2025
Suyono shows his biogas reactor surrounded by plants.

Chauffeur at Indonesia energy nonprofit drives uptake of biogas by Java farmers

Toto Sudiarjo 13 Mar 2025
A herder minding his goats in Isiolo County, Kenya. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Pastoralists know every landscape has a history: Interview with Gufu Oba

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Mar 2025
A lion is approaching a wildebeest herd roaming in a grassland in Kenya. Image by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay.

In Kenya, grassland restoration can help reduce conflict, study says

Gilbert Nakweya 26 Feb 2025
A researcher notes biomass measurements in a mangrove forest in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Image by Kate Evans/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Mangrove deforestation for commodities limits conservation funding in SE Asia

Carolyn Cowan 25 Feb 2025
Peatland forest in Central Kalimantan.

Protecting peatlands and mangroves could halve Southeast Asia’s land-use emissions

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Feb 2025

Brazil’s ‘innovative’ reforestation agenda discussed in Davos (commentary)

Guilherme Leal / Paulo Hartung / Roberto Waack 21 Jan 2025
Trees on the shore of Salmon Lake south of Sitka. Image courtesy of Dang Ngo / Greenpeace.

How the U.S. got no old growth forest protections from the Biden Administration (commentary)

Dominick A. DellaSala 3 Jan 2025
A Climeworks employee stands next to the company’s Mammoth facility in Iceland.

Direct air capture climate solution faces harsh criticism, steep challenges

Sean Mowbray 13 Dec 2024

For a storm-prone Philippine city, flood control is about more than infrastructure

Keith Anthony Fabro 3 Dec 2024

In Colombia, a simple fencing fix offers a win-win for wildlife and ranchers

Marlowe Starling 28 Nov 2024
Agroforestry products Thailand

Help farmers adopt agroecology to protect biodiversity and climate (commentary)

Jonathan Mockshell 21 Nov 2024

Marshes are cost-effective for protecting coasts: Study  

Bobby Bascomb 31 Oct 2024
Mangroves in Thailand

Thailand’s budding mangrove restoration plans spark both hope and concern

Carolyn Cowan 17 Oct 2024
The reforestation team planting trees.

Across reforestation organizations, best practices claims abound, but details are scarce

Marina Martinez 2 Oct 2024
Benjakitti Forest Park

Bangkok turns to urban forests to beat worsening floods

Claire Turrell 10 Sep 2024
Drone image of the erodible bluff (bottom) being stabilized by tiers of logs pinned to the ground, back-filled with soil, and planted among erosion-slowing rocks to keep the rising waters at bay, for a 'living shorelines' project on the Blue Hill Peninsula in Maine. Image by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay.

How coastal communities are adapting to sea level rise with ‘living shorelines’

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Aug 2024

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