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This South American Nation Pledged to Protect 90% of its Forests
Written by: Kimberly White
One South American nation plans to protect nearly all of its forests. In the weeks leading up to last year's COP30...
How to Avoid Tick Bites in Your Yard or While Hiking in the Woods,...
Written by: Amanda Roome
Ticks are small, and you might not notice when they bite, but the diseases they carry can dramatically harm your health.
Each...
Mozambique’s ‘Butterfly Forest’ Gains New Protection
Written by: Shanna Hanbury
Mozambique has formally protected Mount Mabu, a hotspot of endemic wildlife and home to more than 200 species of butterflies, located...
5 Inspiring Community-led Solutions Turning the Tide on Pollution
Written by: Lissi Qian
Much of pollution goes unnoticed, invisible or so normalized in our daily lives that we barely register the haze over a...
Students Build EV Chargers, Gain Skills for Green Jobs
Written by: YCC Team
For years, the South Sacramento Christian Center has been a community hub – feeding people in need, running violence prevention programs, and even...
Safeguarding the Australia’s Iconic Koala: NSW Government Unveils Plans for Landmark Conservation Reserve
Written by: Rhett Ayers Butler
Few animals tug at Australian hearts like the koala. Yet the marsupial, once common along the eastern seaboard, was declared...
How Healthy Soil and Land Creates Solid Ground for Global Resilience
Written by: Andrea Meza Murillo and Gill Einhorn
Beneath every field, forest and city lies the quiet infrastructure of life. Soil is the foundation for...
Growing a Mix of Plants in Fields Can Save Farmers Money and Help the...
Written by: Caroline Brophy
Farmers have increasingly sown a single type of grass in their fields over the past 100 years, and then added chemical...
How One Rancher Beat Drought, Debt, and Low Cotton Prices
Written by: YCC Team
In 2008, Texan Chad Raines took over his family’s cotton farm, which had been worked by his father and grandfather before him. But...
‘Only If We Help Shall All Be Saved’: Jane Goodall Showed We Can All...
Written by: Euan Ritchie, Kylie Soanes, Marissa Parrott, Vanessa Pirotta, and Zara Bending
With the passing of Dr Jane Goodall, the world has lost a conservation...
How AI-powered Citizen Science is Amplifying Community-led Climate Action
Written by: Anurit Kanti and Pratik Kunwar
The rapid acceleration of climate change warrants more than just top-down solutions and expert interventions – it requires communities at...
Climate Solutions Can Start at Your Desk
Written by: YCC Team
When large companies take climate action, it’s often because of pressure from policymakers, lenders, or shareholders.
Piper: “But for a really long...
How this Swedish Tech Company is Protecting Nature in Cities
Written by: Matilda Gennvi and Dan Andersson
Nature surrounds us and is the foundation of everything we depend on: clean air, water, food, raw materials...
How the Midnight Sun is Helping Displace Fossil Fuels in a Remote Arctic Community
Written by: YCC Team
For the past decade, the midnight sun has been helping the remote community of Colville Lake in the Canadian Arctic decrease its dependence...
Solving the World’s Microplastics Problem: 4 Solutions Cities and States are Trying After Global...
Written by: Sarah J. Morath
Microplastics seem to be everywhere – in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. They...
A Small Mexican Town Rallied to Revive its Overfished Coral Reef. Here’s How
Written by: David Elliott
Mexico’s Cabo Pulmo is buzzing with sea life. Sharks, rays, sea turtles and humpback whales are just some of the species...
A Puerto Rican Community Decided to Preserve its Forest. Now it Makes Money Thanks...
Written by: Luis Alexis Rodríguez-Cruz
In Morovis, a town in the center of Puerto Rico’s main island, lies the Las Cabachuelas nature reserve, a green...
How a Filmmaker, a Pile of Old Shells and a Bunch of Amateurs are...
Written by: Dominic McAfee and Craig Copeland
Around Australia, hundreds of people are coming together to help a once-prized, but decimated and largely forgotten marine...
How Biologists and Technologists are Teaming Up to Improve Wildlife Conservation
Written by: Jane Thoning Callesen
As the planet faces an unprecedented crisis in biodiversity loss, traditional methods of tracking and protecting endangered species are no...
When Farmers and Scientists Collaborate, Biodiversity and Agriculture can Thrive – Here’s How
Written by: Charles Masquelier, Carolyn Petersen, and Matt Lobley
The Burren region of County Clare, Ireland, is famous for its distinctive limestone habitat, coastal landscape, rich...
‘Coding for Climate’ organizes students to develop climate solutions
Written by: YCC Team
Young people around the world love gaming and coding. And an initiative called Coding for Climate is helping them apply those passions to...
Want to Build Healthier Cities? Make Room for Bird and Tree Diversity
Written by: Rachel Buxton, Emma J. Hudgins, and Stephanie Prince Ware
More than five million Canadians — approximately one in eight of us — are living with...
How Solar Microgrids Could Power the Future
Written by: Rajat Panwar/Yale Climate Connections
The back-to-back arrival of hurricanes Helene and Milton wreaked unprecedented havoc on the power grid in the southeastern U.S.,...
How Quito has Raised Crucial Finance for Nature-Positive Urban Development
Written by: Mauricio Rodas
As climate change increasingly threatens populated urban areas, cities need to be at the forefront of pioneering sustainable urban development and...
How Colombia’s Mangrove Stewards are Pioneering a Climate and Nature-Positive Approach
Written by: Emily Kelly and Paula Cristina Sierra-Correa
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
Written by: Martin Boucher and Max Lacey-Barnacle, Policy Options
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...
Surf Therapy Connects People to Water – Ocean Health Depends on This ‘Blue Attunement’
Written by: Easkey Britton
As a lifelong surfer, born to pioneering surfing parents and named after a wave, the ocean has shaped my identity and sense...
Plug’n Drive Launches Canada-Wide Tour to Boost EV Awareness, Access
Written by: Gaye Taylor
Coming soon to a community near you: the opportunity to test drive an electric vehicle, courtesy of a Canada-wide tour aiming...
Renewable Energy is Creating Jobs in Benin
Written by: Megan Valère Sossou
In the locality of Ouèssè, an isolated commune in Benin, a man in his twenties is harnessing renewable energy to...
