This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2025, botanists Rodrigo Cámara-Leret and Juan Carlos Copete embarked on a two-hour boat ride down the Vaupés River in the Colombian Amazon, followed by a two-hour hike to the…
On a stretch of prime agricultural land in California’s Sacramento Valley, native grasses, milkweed and wildflowers grow in tight rows under the state’s wide blue sky at the native seed…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Increasing demand for songbirds in the songbird trade is raising the risk of “secondary extinctions” of so-called “master birds” in Southeast Asia, conservationists warn. While these birds never enter the region’s…
Whenever Adivasi communities express hesitation towards public systems, be it ‘free’ healthcare or education, it is often treated as a problem of our beliefs, behaviour, or a ‘lack of awareness’.…
Establishing forests can capture carbon and boost biodiversity — but some biomes are a better bet than others, a recent study about afforestation and reforestation finds. Forest restoration has emerged as a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The nation’s public lands and waters are not an abstraction. They are the places where we hunt and hike, where cattle graze and rivers rise, where tribes connect with ancient…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mexico’s sundry landscapes have few parallels. Straddling the northern boundary of the Tropic of Cancer, the country boasts low-lying deserts and humid rainforests, scrubby chaparral and tangled mangroves, with long…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Floating solar is a subset of the solar industry in which solar panels are moored on the surface of water. While the practice can add more renewable energy to the…
Organizers are working to plant 30,000 trees in New Orleans to restore the wetlands around the city that have remained destroyed since Hurricane Katrina, reports Melina Walling for The Associated Press. Native trees…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I live with my family in a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa’s second-largest city, in a small neighborhood surrounded by conservation land. One afternoon in November 2020, my young…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Revive Gaza’s Farmland Project launched by the Arab Group for the Protection of Nature (APN), is a coalition of farmers working to restore and cultivate farmland across Gaza. They hope to bolster…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I come from a small village, Pali Deli, in Jhansi district, Uttar Pradesh. Located just 15 kilometres from the village headquarters, the area was once under the influence of landlords.…