Written by: Heather Plumpton
Reforestation has enormous potential as a cheap and natural way of sucking heat-absorbing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and restoring the degraded natural world, while supporting local livelihoods at the same time. But there is more than one way...
Written by: Kimberly White
The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia has announced a new strategy to aid koala recovery following the bushfires that have razed New South Wales and Queensland. Bushfires have destroyed more than two million hectares in the...
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Written by: Sandra Cordon
A blueprint to guide effective ecological restoration that can provide “profound ecosystem services benefits,” including better food and water security, improved health and cleaner air quality while delivering social and environmental equity and...
Written by: Matthew Harris
If you have turned on a TV or read the news during the past few months, you have probably heard of the widespread fires that wrought havoc on the Amazon rainforest this year. Fires occur in...
Written by: Juan Jose Alava
We live in an era — the Anthropocene — where humans and societies are reshaping and changing ecosystems. Pollution, human-made climate change and overfishing have all altered marine life and ocean food webs.
Increasing ocean temperatures...
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Written by: Monica Evans
For the latest knowledge on water security in Africa, join the Global Landscapes Forum Accra, 29–30 October. Learn more here.
Makada, a farmer and mother-of-three in Ghana’s arid north, tends her collection of shea, cashew and...
Written by: Islam Sobhy and Bart Lievens
One of the biggest contemporary challenges for humanity is to safeguard food security for current and future generations. A growing demand and a steady increase of the world population – nearly 10 billion people are...
Written by: Jim Daley
Fires raging across the Amazon in recent weeks have gripped the world’s attention and renewed concerns over deforestation in this iconic ecosystem. The widespread use of fire to deliberately clear the rain forest not only endangers...
Written by: Kimberly White
Gabon and Norway have entered into a historic agreement to preserve Gabon's rainforests. The partnership between the two nations provides Gabon with an incentive to reduce deforestation and combat the climate crisis. As part of the...
Written by: Kimberly White
Global Wildlife Conservation and the Wildlife Conservation Society are working to save Mesoamerica’s five largest forests. The wildlife groups teamed up with four Central American countries, the Central American Commission for Environment and Development (CCAD), Indigenous...
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Mangrove ecosystems bridge the line between land and sea. They are precious biodiversity hotspots, home to...
Community Wealth Building is a Strategy for Canada’s Transition to Net Zero
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Canada is at a pivotal moment as it aligns its environmental ambitions with the need for...
Foundation Pays Georgia Farmers to Grow Trees on Former Croplands
Written by: YCC Team, Yale Climate Connections
Many landowners in rural parts of the southeastern U.S. have farmed on their land for decades.
But as they...