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Microbes play leading role in soil carbon capture, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 27 Jun 2023
Aerial view of an area in the Amazon deforested for cattle ranching -- the biggest driver of deforestation in the Amazon -- in Lábrea, Amazonas state on Sep 15, 2021. Photo © Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance)

New data show 10% increase in primary tropical forest loss in 2022

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Jun 2023

For Central America, climate bill could top hundreds of billions annually

Dimitri Selibas 21 Jun 2023

Indonesian coal giant Adaro’s ‘sustainable’ smelter slammed as ‘greenwashing’

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jun 2023
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Rare Amazon dark soils could help forest restoration, study shows

Juliana Ennes 14 Jun 2023

Mycorrhizal fungi hold CO2 equivalent to a third of global fossil fuel emissions

Liz Kimbrough 13 Jun 2023

In Chile, a wildlife rehab center deals with the aftermath of worsening fires

Boris van der Spek 12 Jun 2023

An Asian grass helps Mexican farmers build resilience to climate change

Sandra Weiss 22 May 2023
Workers fertilizing on an oil palm plantation.

EU deforestation tracking regulation sparks division among groups, producers

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 May 2023

Not all parts of the Amazon will survive future droughts, study says

Maxwell Radwin 5 May 2023
Promotional image of the project. Courtesy of Nathalie Lum, Chair of CABEF 2023 CAPS

CAPS, new gas megaproject, aims to power Central Africa, but at what cost, critics ask

Elodie Toto 11 Apr 2023

Is natural gas the solution to Africa’s energy needs? New research says no.

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Nov 2022

A new method assesses health of Chile’s headwaters, and it’s not good news

Liz Kimbrough 30 Sep 2022

More droughts are coming, and the Amazon can’t keep up: Study

Liz Kimbrough 16 Sep 2022

EU votes to keep woody biomass as renewable energy, ignores climate risk

Justin Catanoso 16 Sep 2022

Even without human-driven deforestation, climate change threatens some forests

Ashoka Mukpo 13 Sep 2022
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visits Senegal's President Macky Sall on May 20, 2022.

As Europe eyes Africa’s gas reserves, environmentalists sound the alarm

Ashoka Mukpo 19 Aug 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

We’ve crossed the land use change planetary boundary, but solutions await

Liz Kimbrough 4 Aug 2022

For companies shopping for quality carbon credits, a new guide offers help

Maxwell Radwin 10 Jun 2022

Indonesian bill turns coal-derived fuels clean by ignoring true scale of emissions

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Mar 2022

El Salvador declares rare ‘red alert’ amid surge in forest fires

Maxwell Radwin 4 Mar 2022

Paraguay’s drought hits biodiversity, Indigenous communities the hardest

Maxwell Radwin 3 Feb 2022

Palm oil firm that dried out its land held not liable for fires that followed

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Nov 2021

New study helps cattle ranchers monitor ecological impact on U.S. rangelands

Maxwell Radwin 12 Nov 2021

One in five hectares of oil palm in Indonesia is illegal, report shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 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
1/11/2021. Glasgow, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Boris Johnson welcomes Joe Biden, the President of the United States of America to the COP26 summit. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street

Behind grand declarations at COP26, a long track record of failure

Ashoka Mukpo 5 Nov 2021
Sea turtle swimming under sunset.

Half-Earth, conservation, and hope: An interview with E.O. Wilson, Paula Ehrlich and Sir Tim Smit    

Liz Kimbrough 20 Oct 2021
or orangutan by Dupan Pandu via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

New study identifies regions of greatest conservation potential for species, water quality, carbon

Liz Kimbrough 28 Sep 2021
Kahuzi Biega National Park

Advocates raise alarm over proposal to reopen DRC forests to loggers

Ashoka Mukpo 13 Aug 2021

Soil and its promise as a climate solution: A primer

Mareli Sanchez-Julia 10 Aug 2021

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