Courtesy of Forests News
Written by: Julie Mollins
An innovative community-based forest management policy has resolved a long-simmering land-use conflict between migratory yak herders and sedentary residents in a remote area...
Courtesy of Forests News
Written by: Will Anderson and Aaron Minnick
Everyone is talking about trees. In January, the World Economic Forum founded the Trillion Trees initiative (1t.org), an effort to protect and...
Written by: Kimberly White
The Government of Canada is investing $175 million in projects that protect nature. The Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, announced on August 19th the first in a...
Written by: Alex Thornton
What happens to hair after it’s been trimmed? Usually, the piles of clippings are simply swept off the floor and discarded.
But if you’re at...
Courtesy of Landscape News
Written by: Sandra Cordon
The United Nations has issued a massive global ‘call to action’ to mobilize the political and financial support necessary to restore the world’s...
Written by: Mike Gaworecki
New research finds that large filter feeders in the waters of Indonesia could be ingesting dozens to hundreds of microplastic particles every hour.
Due to their filter...
Written by: Kimberly White
Before the concrete and container ships, when canoes were more common than cars, the New York Harbor was a pristine biodiverse estuary. Once one of the most productive ecosystems in...
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...
Courtesy of Landscape News
Written by: Monica Evans
Across the northern and southern extremes of our planet, vast swathes of land amounting to around 30 percent of the Earth’s service...
Written by: Karen Filbee-Dexter
Did you know that there are forests in the Arctic?
Lush underwater forests of large brown seaweeds (kelps) are particularly striking in...
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Written by: Joseph Opoku Gakpo
Though climate change is likely to exacerbate food and water shortages for poor countries,...
Life in a Remote Alaskan Community on the Front Line of Climate Change
Written by: Connor Dunleavy
The world’s high-latitude regions experience climate change at a rate twice as fast as the...
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Written by: Bin Xu
Peatlands are one of the most valuable terrestrial ecosystems in...