Humans have engineered climate change by manipulating the environment. There’s a hope that we may also be able to mitigate this, predominantly through reducing emissions, but in some cases by ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Natural climate solutions, or NCS, range from reforestation and ...

What if it were possible to take a very slow geological process, one that takes thousands of years in nature, and speed it up so that it happens within hours, in order to slow the rate of global ...

Left: Number of observations of each constraint, organized by constraint category. Right: Number of constraint observations in each constraint category. Conservation, restoration, and ecosystem ...

We stand at a critical juncture where the interconnected crises of climate change and biodiversity loss demand immediate and urgent attention. Scientific evidence unequivocally demonstrates that the ...

Mangrove trees, belonging to the Rhizophoraceae family, thrive in coastal ecosystems with their unique adaptations. These halophytes feature aerial roots that facilitate oxygen intake, essential for ...

Global inventory reveals nitrogen is in shorter supply than previously thought in natural areas, which could limit carbon storage in plants and soils. “Outside of some tropical forests and drylands, ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation is tapping into the Pacific Northwest’s (PNW) strength in conservation innovation with a new, open call for proposals to invest up to $5 ...

In this episode, learn about climate resilience efforts focused on smallholder farmers in Africa and green energy solutions reaching rural communities in Appalachia. Leaders from two organizations ...

Peter Raymond, the Oastler Professor of Biogeochemistry at Yale School of the Environment (YSE), has been appointed co-director of the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture (YCNCC), a university hub ...