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Franco Ivan Macedo Tafur, a member of the Amazon mangrove research team

First-of-its-kind freshwater mangroves discovered in Brazil’s Amazon Delta

Liz Kimbrough 20 Jul 2022
Danaea alansmithii Colombia, Amazonas, Río Caquetá. PHOTO: HANNA TUOMISTO

Between six ferns: New tropical fern species described by science

Liz Kimbrough 19 Jul 2022

Red-hot demand for ipê wood coincides with deforestation hubs in Brazil

Aldem Bourscheit 18 Jul 2022
Monarch butterfly feeding on non-native bull thistle at the Metropolitan Beach Metropark Nature Area, Clinton, MI. Image by Steve Burt via Creative Commons 2.0 license.

Is invasive species management doing more harm than good? (commentary)

Janae Malpas 14 Jul 2022

Natural regeneration and women-led initiatives help drive Atlantic Forest Pact

Sibélia Zanon 11 Jul 2022
Plantations in Cuesta del Ternero that burned in January 2021. Image courtesy of Denali DeGraf.

Tree plantations in Patagonia are the site of wildfires and land dispute

Denali DeGraf 6 Jul 2022
Indonesian designer Singgih Kartono, founder of Spedagi

Bamboo mamas and bikes help with Indonesian diplomacy

Ebed de Rosary, Nuswantoro 29 Jun 2022
The nursery at the heart of Minawao nurtures the green shoots of a recovery.

Cameroon’s Nigerian refugees who degraded their camp are now vanguards of reforestation

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 28 Jun 2022
Employee from the MESCOT reforestation initiative showing a sapling in Sabah, Malaysia

Mongabay’s new-look Reforestation.app makes finding the right tree-planting project easier

Mongabay.com 28 Jun 2022
Lilian’s lovebirds perching on a branch.

Home away from home: Researchers trial artificial nests for Lilian’s lovebirds

Charles Mpaka 27 Jun 2022
Members of Las Chelemeras consult with Keila Vazquez (in hat) before continuing their work.

Dig, dump, repeat, then watch the forest grow: Q&A with mangrove restorer Keila Vazquez

Caitlin Cooper 23 Jun 2022
Framers tending to their agricultural land in Uzbekistan.

Beyond boundaries: Earth’s water cycle is being bent to breaking point

Petro Kotzé 21 Jun 2022
A giant mahogany tree, like this one in Cashu, is a rich target for illegal timbering in the Amazon. Photo courtesy Jason Houston.

Mahogany, a pillar of the rainforest, needs support (commentary)

Sheam Satkuru 14 Jun 2022
Rosewood flowering

Overexploited and underprotected: Study urges action on Asia’s rosewoods

Carolyn Cowan 13 Jun 2022

The curious case of the Sri Lankan national flower that wasn’t

Malaka Rodrigo 11 Jun 2022
Botanist Keith Steunenberg stands next to a thicket.

Can wonder plant spekboom really bring smiles back to sad South African towns?

Anna Weekes 7 Jun 2022
Tree nursery

Common goals ensure forest restoration success in northern Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 6 Jun 2022
Drying farmed cannabis.

Legal and illegal cannabis: A cause for growing environmental concern

Sean Mowbray 2 Jun 2022
Omar al-Sharif, Motoharu Nochi, and a team of volunteers after a “growth monitoring” activity at the Marka baby forest in April 2022.

In Jordan, the Middle East’s first Miyawaki-style ‘baby’ forests take root

Lyse Mauvais 1 Jun 2022
A river running through an old-growth lowland rainforest in Brunei.

Fossil evidence confirms persistence of prehistoric forests in Brunei

John Cannon 31 May 2022
Proposed model of Nijgadh Airport, Nepal

Nepal’s Supreme Court axes plans to build controversial new airport

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 May 2022

Efforts bloom to save southern Brazil’s last butiá palm groves

Aldem Bourscheit 24 May 2022
Gold mine in South Kivu, Congo. Image courtesy of the Sasha Lezhnev Enough Project.

Results of mining tax for reforestation in the DRC leave more questions than answers

Didier Makal 19 May 2022
Irma and Heloisa collect Murici fruits ( Byrsonima crassifolia (L.) Rich) at the Ripá tribe on Pimentel Barbosa indigenous territory in Mato Grosso, Brazil

Indigenous village harvests seeds to slow deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado

Daniel Grossman, Dado Galdieri 16 May 2022

Newly described plant is latest fruit of Sri Lankan botanists’ collaboration

Malaka Rodrigo 10 May 2022

To gauge impact of nitrogen pollution, Sri Lanka project looks to lichens

Malaka Rodrigo 6 May 2022
Two researchers pulling seine net through estuarine waters searching for pipefish. Image courtesy of Jason Boswell.

Saving the near-extinct estuarine pipefish means protecting estuary health

Sean Mowbray 3 May 2022
Emergent rainforest tree in Malaysia

Asia’s troubled trees need better conservation to reach restoration goals: Study

Carolyn Cowan 26 Apr 2022

Warming could nip Southeast Asian forests’ mass flowering in the bud, study finds

Carolyn Cowan 21 Apr 2022
Tree rings on a dead tree.

Tropical trees’ growth and CO2 intake hit by more extreme dry seasons

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Apr 2022

They outlived the dinosaurs, but Brazil’s araucaria trees might not survive humans

Aldem Bourscheit 4 Apr 2022

Climate crisis forecasts a fragile future for wildflowers and pollinators

Spoorthy Raman 1 Apr 2022

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