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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
Planting mangroves at Junda village, near Mombasa, Kenya. Image by Kang Chun Cheng.

Mangrove conservation takes root with local communities on Kenya’s coast

Kang-Chun Cheng 22 Oct 2021

Look beyond carbon credits to put a price on nature’s services, experts say

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 4 Oct 2021
Flooded forest in the Amazon

We’ve crossed four of nine planetary boundaries. What does this mean?

Mike DiGirolamo 8 Sep 2021
Old growth trees in Olympic National Park. Image courtesy of Matt Shiffler Photography via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Old-growth forests of Pacific Northwest could be key to climate action

Justin Catanoso 1 Sep 2021

Mangrove restoration done right has clear economic, ecological benefits

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 31 Aug 2021

Scientists look to wheatgrass to save dryland farming and capture carbon

Sarah Derouin 18 Aug 2021

To save salt marshes, researchers deploy a wide arsenal of techniques

Lisa Golden 12 Aug 2021
Growing agave in Mexico

Mexico devises revolutionary method to reverse semiarid land degradation

Sue Branford 11 Aug 2021

Soil and its promise as a climate solution: A primer

Mareli Sanchez-Julia 10 Aug 2021

Old and new solutions pave way to net-zero emissions farming, studies show

Claire Asher 30 Jul 2021

When it comes to carbon capture, tree invasions can do more harm than good

Liz Kimbrough 21 Jun 2021

On the Mongolian steppe, conservation science meets traditional knowledge

Jacopo Pasotti 2 Jun 2021

The key to averting environmental catastrophe is right beneath our feet

Claire Asher 1 Jun 2021

Hotter tropics may worsen climate change, reforestation could lessen it: Studies

Taran Volckhausen 2 Oct 2020
Deforestation in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Experts question integrity of Indonesia’s claim of avoided deforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Sep 2020

In the Scottish moorlands, plots planted with trees stored less carbon than untouched lands: Study

Liz Kimbrough 18 Aug 2020
Mangrove forest at MSN island, where groups hope to use the land as an educational center and nursing ground for various mangroves species. Photo by Ann Wang

Mangrove collapse ‘inevitable’ unless emissions curbed

Lauren Crothers 18 Jun 2020

Indonesia fires emitted double the carbon of Amazon fires, research shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Nov 2019

$65 million deal to protect Congo’s forests raises concerns

John Cannon 14 Oct 2019

’Green’ bonds finance industrial tree plantations in Brazil

Mongabay.com 16 May 2019

Deforestation diminishes access to clean water, study finds

John Cannon 15 Apr 2019

European Parliament to vote on timber legality agreement with Vietnam

John Cannon 11 Mar 2019

Forest soils take longer to recover from fires and logging than previously thought

Mike Gaworecki 22 Feb 2019

Policymakers are not adequately factoring land use and human diets into climate mitigation strategies: Study

Mongabay.com 4 Jan 2019

US could cut emissions more than one-fifth through ‘natural climate solutions’ like reforestation

Mongabay.com 21 Nov 2018

‘Guardians of the forest:’ Indigenous peoples come together to assert role in climate stability

Justin Catanoso 2 Oct 2018

Scientists uncover what makes deep soil either a carbon sink or source

Mongabay.com 20 Sep 2018

Common ground on the prairie (commentary)

Martha Kauffman, Laura Nowlin 14 Sep 2018

Why keep Africa’s dryland forests alive?

Sophie Mbugua 12 Sep 2018

Climate mitigation has an ally in need of recognition and land rights: indigenous peoples in tropical countries

Justin Catanoso 10 Sep 2018

When it comes to carbon storage, not all mangroves are equal

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Aug 2018

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