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L’Allee des Baobabs, or the Avenue of Baobabs, a famous spot outside Morondava, the nearest town to Belo-Sur-Mer.

Extreme reforestation: Baobab planters confront fires, loggers, cattle and more

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 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

Nearly 30% of all tree cover in Africa may be outside of forests, study says

Malavika Vyawahare 2 Jun 2023

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

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 May 2023
Calotes goetzi

Greater Mekong proves an ark of biodiversity, with 380 new species in a year

Liz Kimbrough 24 May 2023

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

Liz Kimbrough 22 May 2023
CI-Brazil and partners mixing the muvuca seeds.

World’s ‘largest’ tropical reforestation project slowed by Covid, Bolsonaro, fires

Jeremy Hance 4 May 2023
Graine de Vie’s reforestation site in Ambohitantely prior to the October 2022 fire.

Madagascar bush fires prompt exasperated NGO to curtail tree planting

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 1 May 2023
Shigeatsu Hatakeyama at a tree-planting festival

Saving forests to protect coastal ecosystems: Japan sets historic example

Annelise Giseburt 27 Apr 2023

Community pine nut harvests help protect Brazil’s araucaria trees

Carolina Pinheiro 25 Apr 2023
Former lowland rainforest replaced with cocnut in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Deforestation in Borneo threatens three endangered, endemic plant species

Basten Gokkon 21 Apr 2023
red panda

Roads, human activity take a toll on red pandas: Q&A with researcher Damber Bista

Abhaya Raj Joshi 10 Apr 2023

In Brazil, scientists fight an uphill battle to restore the disappearing Cerrado savanna

Sarah Sax 3 Apr 2023

Newly described leafless orchid in Sri Lanka named after a precious yellow sapphire

Malaka Rodrigo 31 Mar 2023
A tiger in water.

Do tiger-dense habitats also help save carbon stock? It’s complicated

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Mar 2023
Trees in the plains of Sahel.

Scientists map nearly 10 billion trees, stored carbon, in Africa’s drylands

John Cannon 10 Mar 2023
Children relaxing in the clear water of a shallow river in Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of Congo. Image by Pieter Henket (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Deforestation threatens local populations in Republic of Congo’s Sangha

Lawon Olalekan 6 Mar 2023

Indigenous Comcaac serve up an oceanic grain to preserve seagrass meadows

Astrid Arellano 3 Mar 2023
The daily livestock market in Lodwar, Turkana County's biggest business hub. Image by Kang-Chun Cheng.

‘During droughts, pivot to agroecology’: Q&A with soil expert at the World Agroforestry Centre

Kang-Chun Cheng 28 Feb 2023
Moringa stenopetala is a tree originally domesticated by Ethiopian and Kenyan farmers for its highly nutritious leaves. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Trees with edible leaves can boost human nutrition: New book, free download

Erik Hoffner 15 Feb 2023
Two researchers measuring a Victoria boliviana leaf.

Kew Gardens joins local partners to save tropical plants from extinction

Sue Branford 15 Feb 2023
People in San Juan Raya decided to join a research project to grow agave for mezcal sustainably. Image by Noel Rojo for Mongabay.

Amid global mezcal craze, scientists and communities try out sustainable plantations

Magdaléna Rojo 10 Feb 2023
Ann Dumaliang.

Saving Masungi, a last green corridor of the Philippines: Q&A with Ann Dumaliang

Jewel S. Cabrera 9 Feb 2023
Karst mountain in Sabah, Malaysia on the island of Borneo. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Forest carbon offsets are a tool, not a silver bullet (commentary)

Robert Nasi, Pham Thu Thuy 7 Feb 2023
A blackwater oxbow lake in the Peruvian Amazon.

Forest modeling misses the water for the carbon: Q&A with Antonio Nobre & Anastassia Makarieva

Judith D. Schwartz 7 Feb 2023
Karen Kimani waters her tree nursery.

Kenya’s youngest environmental ambassador: Q&A with 10-year-old Karen Kimani

Mactilda Mbenywe 3 Feb 2023

Pollinator declines linked to half million early human deaths annually: Study

Jeremy Hance 2 Feb 2023
Gotu kola image by Shahidul Hasan Roman via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

‘War with weeds’ lacks ecological understanding and empathy (commentary)

Nimal Chandrasena 1 Feb 2023
An elephant.

Elephants promote jumbo trees, boosting the carbon stores in Africa’s forests

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Jan 2023
A protected old-growth forest in Sequoia National Park. Image by Joan Maloof/Old-Growth Forest Network.

U.S. mature forests are critical carbon repositories, but at risk: Study

John Cannon 27 Jan 2023

The EU banned Russian wood pellet imports; South Korea took them all

Justin Catanoso 24 Jan 2023

Botanists are disappearing at a critical time

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Jan 2023

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