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View of central Kampala.

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

Victoria Schneider 15 Aug 2025

Seed-dispersing animals are in decline, impacting forests and the climate: Study

Kristine Sabillo 14 Aug 2025
A crew of firefighters fights the Vees Fire near Ten Sleep, Wyoming, in July 2025.

Fixing forests or fueling fires? Scientists split over active management

John Cannon 13 Aug 2025
Rex Mann. Image courtesy of the American Chestnut Foundation.

Rex Mann, American chestnut evangelist, died July 2, aged 81

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Aug 2025
Why is star anise disappearing from northeastern India?

Efforts to revive India’s disappearing endangered star anise

Mongabay.com 4 Aug 2025
The critically endangered lemur leaf frog (Agalychnis lemur), found in Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Requiem for the nearly lost

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Aug 2025
Isidrio Hernandez-Ruiz and his son are participants of the collaborative reforestation trial with Smithsonian and Traditional Leadership.

Indigenous leadership and science revive Panama’s degraded lands

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2025

Ethiopia’s national tree campaign underway with aim to plant 700 million seedlings in one day

Associated Press 31 Jul 2025
John Robbins in his 70s. Image courtesy of the Food Revolution Network.

John Robbins, heir to an ice cream empire who chose a life of principle, dies at 77

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jul 2025

Scientists & communities rush to save rare, diverse Brazilian grassland ecosystem

Letícia Klein 29 Jul 2025
A forest gardener waters vegetables in his forest garden in Kaffrine, Senegal.

A forest garden project attempts to expand into the Sahel

Victoria Schneider 28 Jul 2025
Mangroves in Raja Ampat.

Reversing damage to the world’s mangrove forests

Kristine Sabillo 25 Jul 2025

Uruguay confronts a powerful new threat to its palm trees: A tiny red bug

Associated Press 24 Jul 2025
Food served on areca leaf and other biodegradable tableware.

Bangladesh turns to nature for biodegradable plates to replace plastic ones

Mongabay.com 18 Jul 2025
Sunset at Joshua Tree National Park

In a warming world, can California save its Joshua trees?

Maya L. Kapoor 17 Jul 2025

Sri Lanka’s plant messiah spreads optimism for biodiversity & conservation

Rohan Pethiyagoda 17 Jul 2025
Sahara mustard plants in California.

In California, an invasive mustard is destabilizing desert plant communities

Maya L. Kapoor 16 Jul 2025
Amanda L. Cordeiro (left), a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Minnesota and Daniela F. Cusack, Associate Professor in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability at Colorado State University at one of their research sites to investigate how root systems react to climatic changes.

Tropical forest roots show strain as changes aboveground filter below

Petro Kotzé 15 Jul 2025
Tropical forests in places like Costa Rica (pictured) can be an important source of livelihoods by attracting nature-oriented tourists. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Nearly half of tree species in Mexico and Central America threatened with extinction

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jul 2025
Bulborox orchid

Bangladesh to save critically endangered orchids and trees

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2025
The Nepalese paper plant is used to make the traditional lokta paper.

Nepal sees positive outcome from reforestation project using local knowledge

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 8 Jul 2025
Red panda photographed in Nepal

The forest guardians along Nepal-India border leading red panda conservation

Deepak Adhikari 4 Jul 2025
Climbers climb 40 meters in height to extract the waters from the palm trees. Image by Esperanza Natural Forest Management Association

Peru’s Indigenous aguaje harvesters turn to sustainability, but challenges remain

Mongabay.com 3 Jul 2025
Emmanuel Gona, a fisherman and community scout from Muyu wa Kae village in Marereni, believes that conserving and restoring mangrove ecosystems is key to boosting fish populations.

A Kenya marine biodiversity credit program restores mangroves — and livelihoods

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 1 Jul 2025
researcher glacier

Communities and ecosystems in Venezuela learn to adapt to life after glaciers

María Fernanda Rodríguez, Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 30 Jun 2025
For the Maya people, fire has always been a sacred element, central in ancestral Mother Earth celebration ceremonies.

Fire is both destruction and rebirth for Maya communities of Belize

Monica Pelliccia 27 Jun 2025
Tyler Kartzinel’s research highlighted the gaps in DNA reference databases in tropical biodiversity hotspots.

DNA sequencing to meet global biodiversity goals: Interview with Tyler Kartzinel

Abhishyant Kidangoor 25 Jun 2025

In Peru, Yine women show how defending the Amazon supports local livelihoods

Geraldine Santos 18 Jun 2025
Employed women of the Banpewa community carrying seedlings to the planting site.

After controversy, Plant-for-the-Planet focuses on the trees

Maxwell Radwin 13 Jun 2025
Bulborox orchid

Bangladesh aims to revive five critically endangered plants

Abu Siddique 12 Jun 2025
Urban greenspace in Bangkok

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

Carolyn Cowan 10 Jun 2025
The Paduka community cooking for visitors.

Villagers in Sumatra bring ancient forest flavors back to the table

Claire Turrell 5 Jun 2025

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