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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
Farid Tarabay, the new forest guide, under the Lamartine Cedar, one of the oldest in the SBR. Image by Elizabeth Fitt for Mongabay.

From land mines to lifelines, Lebanon’s Shouf is a rare restoration success story

Elizabeth Fitt 23 Mar 2022

‘Right moon for fishing’: Study finds gravitational impacts on plants, animals

Sibélia Zanon 22 Mar 2022

‘We have a full pharmacopoeia of plants’: Q&A with Māori researcher Nicola Macdonald

Monica Evans 18 Mar 2022

‘No planet B’: Groups call for $60bn increase in annual biodiversity funding

John Cannon 13 Mar 2022

South America hosts nearly half of 9,000 tree species unknown to science

Suzana Camargo 10 Mar 2022

Greek conservationists collaborate to protect endemic species in face of climate change

Evan Bourtis 8 Mar 2022

As Australia faces new fire reality, forest restoration tactics reevaluated

Grace Dungey 14 Feb 2022
Toco

Winds of change: Detecting species from airborne DNA just got real

Carolyn Cowan 11 Feb 2022

Can the little-known tamanu tree replace palm oil in Indonesia’s biofuel bid?

Nuswantoro 9 Feb 2022

Sixty of one, half a dozen of the other: Rare magnolias get a new start in Ecuador’s Chocó

Liz Kimbrough, Maxwell Radwin 31 Jan 2022
Redwood forest in Muir Woods, Marin County, California. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

California redwood forest returned to Indigenous guardianship, conservation

Laurel Sutherland 28 Jan 2022

Indonesian research center for medicinal plants displaces incense harvesters

Barita News Lumbanbatu 13 Jan 2022
Mangrove forest Kenya

Community project helps Kenya aim for climate goals one mangrove tree at a time

Joyce Chimbi 10 Jan 2022

Not your ordinary houseplant: World’s tallest begonia found in Tibet

Liz Kimbrough 7 Jan 2022

Indonesia’s Womangrove collective reclaims the coast from shrimp farms

Wahyu Chandra 6 Jan 2022

Global ecosystem restoration progress: How and who’s tracking it?

Mike Gaworecki 22 Dec 2021

Top 15 species discoveries from 2021 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 21 Dec 2021

Mexican firm profits from reforestation, empowers Indigenous people

Maxwell Radwin 21 Dec 2021
Mushrooms

Scientists on a quest to map worldwide web of fungi beneath our feet

Carolyn Cowan 17 Dec 2021

Brazil’s Suzano boasts its pulpwood plantations are green; critics disagree

Sue Branford 15 Dec 2021

For Mekong officials fighting timber traffickers, a chance to level up

John Cannon 13 Dec 2021
Representative animation of the soil formation process

Fighting climate change is a dirty job, but soils can do it | Problem Solved

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Nov 2021
Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco). Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

New restoration “Playbook” calls for political, economic, and social change

Liz Kimbrough 8 Nov 2021
New York, NY - January 7, 2020: Former Vice President & Democratic hopeful Joe Biden made foreign policy statement at Current on Pier 59, Lev Radin for Shutterstock

Scientists urge Biden to remove logging, fossil fuels, biomass from budget bills

Liz Kimbrough 8 Nov 2021

COP26: “Work with nature in forest restoration,” says respected journalist

Sue Branford 4 Nov 2021

Indonesian couple stages ‘ecological wedding’ in hopes of inspiring others

Ebed de Rosary 4 Nov 2021

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