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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

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
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
Pastoralists in Somalia

To protect the planet’s rangelands, give pastoralists a boost, UN report says

Ashoka Mukpo 5 Jul 2024
Beekeeping in Thailand

Beekeeping helps villagers tend coastal forests in Thai mangrove hotspot

Carolyn Cowan 18 Jun 2024
Local and International organizations participated in the plantation.

Uzbekistan plants a forest where a sea once lay

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 29 May 2024
Grael Bomowey poses with a fruiting butternut squash grown by her neighbor after receiving a seed from her collection. Image by Laurie Mae Gucilatar.

For drought relief, Cordilleran women in the Philippines rely on seed saving

Mavic Conde 17 May 2024

NZ funding helps Indigenous farmers in Indonesia protect forests, boost incomes

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 May 2024
Salt tolerant plants are part of a 'living shorelines' project on the Blue Hill Peninsula in Maine. Image by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay.

U.S. East Coast adopts ‘living shorelines’ approach to keep rising seas at bay

Erik Hoffner 24 Apr 2024
Eucalyptus trees at the Burapha Agro-Forestry plantation near Xathany District, Laos, 2023. Image courtesy of Melissa Lo.

Land tenure lesson from Laos for forest carbon projects (commentary)

Melissa Lo / Simran Kaur / Oluwole Soyinka / Sheng Huan Tang / Song Fu 2 Apr 2024
Wood pellets for biomass energy. Image courtesy of Dogwood Alliance.

Enviva bankruptcy fallout ripples through biomass industry, U.S. and EU

Justin Catanoso 2 Apr 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
Agroforestry practices in action in Zambia.

Global conference to accelerate nature-based solutions: Q&A with Self Help Africa’s Patricia Wall

Ruth Kamnitzer 11 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
A woman in Indonesia harvesting purun grass.

What principles should define natural climate solutions? A new study has some answers

Spoorthy Raman 20 Feb 2024
Workers at a mangrove nursery in Dam, a coastal town in Pakistan's Balochistan province. Image by Ayaz Khan for Mongabay.

Pakistan bucks global trend with 30-year mangrove expansion

Ayaz Khan 5 Feb 2024
Tracegrow, a Finnish company, uses recycled batteries and industrial waste to create agricultural fertilizers.

Lessons from Finland’s attempt to transition to a circular economy

Sean Mowbray 23 Jan 2024
A farmer plucks moringa leaves.

Bangladeshi farmers eye moringa as a climate and economic solution

Abu Siddique 22 Jan 2024
A farmer carries a net.

A Mekong island too tiny for industrial farming now points to Vietnam’s future

Sonal Gupta 11 Jan 2024
Indonesia is a top producer of coconut oil.

Indonesian districts trial a shift from commodity monocrops to sustainable produce

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Dec 2023
Roque Regis, one of Paraiso’s community leaders, stands on a bridge through the bay's mangroves.

Causeway threatens mangroves that Philippine fishers planted as typhoon shield

Michael Beltran 21 Dec 2023
Altasea is a marine renewable energy and conservation technology hub on an old wharf in the port of Los Angeles. Image courtesy of Altasea.

Marine conservation technology hub rises from old L.A. wharf (analysis)

David Helvarg 20 Dec 2023

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