Written by: Olivia Norfolk
Since the end of World War II, 97% of the UK’s wildflower meadows have been dug up or destroyed. Many won’t remember a time when the countryside was filled with grassland that rippled with rainbows of flowers, but...
Written by: Natalie Marchant
What happens to coal mines when they're no longer in use? In Appalachia, United States, one nonprofit has a solution – restoring thousands of acres of once-surface-mined land to their erstwhile natural glory.
Kentucky-based Green Forests Work is boosting...
Courtesy of Landscape News
Written by: Monica Evans
Humanity just gained a dubious new accolade. In the last year, for the first time ever, we consumed 100 billion tons of new materials. That’s according to a report released on 21 January at...
Written by: Gabriel Cardoso Carrero, Cynthia S. Simmons, and Robert T. Walker
Imagine that several state legislators decide that Yellowstone National Park is too big. Also imagine that, working with federal politicians, they change the law to downsize the park...
Written by: Bin Xu
Peatlands are one of the most valuable terrestrial ecosystems in our fight against climate change. These deep layers of partially decayed plants and other organic material are tens of thousands of years old.
Globally, peatland covers more...
Written by: Geoffrey Holland
"The Earth is what we all have in common."
Wendell Berry, American Cultural Critic
Humanity, all of humanity, has arrived at a daunting point of reckoning. All of the world's people—all genders, ethnicities, and nationalities—are caught up in...
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 of belonging. The movement and touch of ocean waves ignites a whole cascade of changes...
Written by: Tara Lohan
In September the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed removing 23 species from the federal list of endangered species — not because they’d rebounded, sadly, but because they are believed to be extinct.
News reports about the announcement highlighted...
Written by: Johan Oldekop, Bowy den Braber, and Marina Schmoeller
Although deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon have halved, it is still losing more than 5,000km² every year. That’s an area three times larger than Greater London.
By combining satellite imagery for...
Courtesy of Forests News
Written by: Julie Mollins
Unless land management strategies are overhauled to reduce the gap between forestry and agriculture, it will be impossible to feed and nourish the human population without further damaging the environment and forests,...












