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A rainbow over a baobab tree, Mombo, Okavango Delta, Botswana, Africa © Beverly Joubert / iLCP

Resilient giants: How the world’s oldest trees stand tall against climate change (commentary)

Meg Severide 5 Aug 2024
Hymenaea courbaril

Time for a copal comeback? The natural resin could boost Amazon’s economy

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Jul 2024
Adriane Esquivel Muelbert and Evan Gora examine a fallen giant tree in the Amazon, hoping to identify hints of its cause of death.

Are the Amazon’s biggest trees dying? Forest coroners investigate

Daniel Grossman 29 Jul 2024
Two school boys planting a tree.

Protecting Nigeria one child & one tree at a time: Interview with Doyinsola Ogunye

Tarinipre Francis 24 Jul 2024
Results of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration in Talensi District of Ghana. Image courtesy of World Vision.

Harnessing ‘invisible forests in plain view’ to reforest the world

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 16 Jul 2024
A bee with a sunflower in Tokyo.

Study finds best plants for bee health and conservation in North America

Liz Kimbrough 5 Jul 2024
Beekeeping in Thailand

Beekeeping helps villagers tend coastal forests in Thai mangrove hotspot

Carolyn Cowan 18 Jun 2024

If forests truly drive wind and water cycles, what does it mean for the climate?

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 18 Jun 2024
Located in the Amapá state, the second-largest red angelim ever found is 85.4 meters (280 feet) tall and has a circumference of 9.8 meters (32 feet). Image courtesy of João de Matos Filho / Prodemac.

Experts aim to protect one of Brazil’s giant emblematic tree species

Jenny Gonzales 18 Jun 2024

Water is key as study shows restoration of drained tropical peat is possible

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jun 2024
Farmers burning cleared forest land after harvesting. Photo courtesy of Buu Nguyen.

Can Vietnam’s forests survive the spread of acacia and eucalyptus plantations? (commentary)

Buu Nguyen 4 Jun 2024

To wipe or to wash? That is the question

Abhishyant Kidangoor, Sandy Watt 31 May 2024

Campesinos bring life back to a deforestation hotspot in the Colombian Amazon

Astrid Arellano 30 May 2024

Innovative Nepali PSA seeks emotional connection to save red pandas

Abhaya Raj Joshi 24 May 2024
oriental pied hornbill

New database unveils the role of Asian hornbills as forest seed dispersers

Carolyn Cowan 15 May 2024

Fishers, scientists restore mangroves on a Mexican isle wrecked by salt mining

Astrid Arellano 13 May 2024

UK’s Drax targets California forests for two major wood pellet plants

Justin Catanoso 6 May 2024
Rainforest in the Colombian Amazon

AI model maps global tree canopy heights in hi-res, with carbon counting in mind

Abhishyant Kidangoor 30 Apr 2024

DRC’s 1 billion trees program makes progress, but hurdles remain

Sylvain-Gauthier Kabemba 26 Apr 2024

Sierra Leone cacao project boosts livelihoods and buffers biodiversity

Spoorthy Raman 18 Apr 2024
Acorns on an oak tree.

Drone cameras help scientists distinguish between drought stress & fungus in oaks

Abhishyant Kidangoor 18 Apr 2024
Satellite image of wildfires in Quebec, Canada, in June, 2023.

Tropical forest loss puts 2030 zero-deforestation target further out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Apr 2024
Wood pellets for biomass energy. Image courtesy of Dogwood Alliance.

Enviva bankruptcy fallout ripples through biomass industry, U.S. and EU

Justin Catanoso 2 Apr 2024
Researcher Alain Senghor K. Ngute looking at a photo of a millipede on a laptop, and making notes on a clipboard on the desk in front of him. Image by Haimdu Mnendendo.

Tanzania’s ‘mountain of millipedes’ yields six new species

Ryan Truscott 26 Mar 2024
Active clearance and drainage of peatland rainforest in a concession run by PT Asia Tani Persada, which is also an orangutan habitat.

Toilet paper: Environmentally impactful, but alternatives are rolling out

Petro Kotzé 15 Mar 2024

Conflict in the canopy as human and climate factors drive liana dominance over trees

Logan Rance 12 Mar 2024

Megafires are spreading in the Amazon — and they are here to stay

Sibélia Zanon and Luis Patriani 22 Feb 2024

A highway project in Chile threatens one of the world’s longest-living tree species

Michelle Carrere 15 Feb 2024

In Colombia, race is on to save 8 rare tree species found nowhere else

Astrid Arellano 14 Feb 2024

Reforestation of Indonesia’s new capital city stumped by haphazard planting

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Feb 2024
Sarah Oginga harvesting papyrus reeds.

Livelihoods at stake as Lake Victoria’s papyrus swamps come under pressure: Photos

Patrick Newcombe 5 Feb 2024
Neem flowers

Ghana’s medicinal plants, the ‘first aid’ for communities, are under threat

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 2 Feb 2024

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