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Johan Rockström.

Planetary boundary pioneer Johan Rockström awarded 2024 Tyler Prize

Glenn Scherer 29 Feb 2024
Children crossing the Nyamwamba.

Climate change brings a river’s wrath down on western Uganda

Ashoka Mukpo 29 Feb 2024
Nubian flapshell turtle (Cyclanorbis elegans) in its preferred riverbank habitat. Image courtesy of ONG OeBenin via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-NC).

Nile Basin farmers grow food forests to restore wetlands and bring back a turtle

David Njagi 28 Feb 2024
A red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda)

On Kaho’olawe, new technology could restore a sacred Hawaiian island

Claudia Geib 19 Feb 2024

In Brazil’s soy belt, community seed banks offer hope for the Amazon

Ana Ionova 15 Feb 2024
A black rhino in Loisaba Conservancy.

Black rhinos moved to Kenya’s Loisaba Conservancy as species recovers

Graeme Green 13 Feb 2024

Rewilding in Argentina helps giant anteaters return to south Brazil

Sarah Brown 12 Feb 2024
Juanita Torremocha harvests a medicinal herb in her backyard, located near Mount Bandilaan National Park at the heart of Siquijor Island.

Traditional healers in Philippines keep their ‘forest pharmacy’ standing

Keith Anthony S. Fabro 9 Feb 2024
Remberto Gil shows three varieties of corn

Indigenous Zenú turn to ancestral seeds, agroecology to climate-proof their farming

Monica Pelliccia 6 Feb 2024

In the Brazilian outback, the half-century Kapinawá struggle for sacred ground

Xavier Bartaburu (words and photos) & Rafael Martins (video and photos) 5 Feb 2024
Bolivian red howler monkeys in Madidi Landscape.

New fund supports Indigenous-led land management in biodiverse area of Bolivia

Aimee Gabay 1 Feb 2024
Ta Heuy villager Khun Nun

Cambodia’s Indigenous communities renounce communal land titles for microloans

Jack Brook 31 Jan 2024
Salmon being traditionally baked by Council Member Jaytuk Steinruck of the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation.

First ever U.S. Indigenous Marine Stewardship Area declared in California

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jan 2024
A framed photo of Ari Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau

Grassroots efforts and an Emmy-winning film help Indigenous fight in Brazil

Sarah Brown 29 Jan 2024

What’s at stake for the environment in El Salvador’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 29 Jan 2024
Tracegrow, a Finnish company, uses recycled batteries and industrial waste to create agricultural fertilizers.

Lessons from Finland’s attempt to transition to a circular economy

Sean Mowbray 23 Jan 2024

Markets and forests: 7 takeaways from our series on the forest carbon trade

John Cannon 17 Jan 2024
Chimpanzee

A rush for ‘green’ iron is on in Guinea. Will chimpanzees be a casualty?

Juliette Portala 17 Jan 2024
A teacher and farmer in Lukolela, DRC.

The future of forest carbon credits and voluntary markets

John Cannon 16 Jan 2024
A herd of cows.

Agricultural nitrogen pollution is global threat, but circular solutions await

Claire Asher 16 Jan 2024
A long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) in Borneo.

Leveraging the hypothetical: The uncertain world of carbon credit calculations

John Cannon 12 Jan 2024
A farmer carries a net.

A Mekong island too tiny for industrial farming now points to Vietnam’s future

Sonal Gupta 11 Jan 2024
A Kawahiva indigenous man fleetingly caught on film.

Promise of full demarcation for isolated Amazon tribe rings hollow for some

Aimee Gabay 11 Jan 2024
Women making skirts from grass in Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea.

‘Cowboys’ and intermediaries thrive in Wild West of the carbon market

John Cannon 9 Jan 2024
Aellow-cheeked crested gibbon

Do carbon credits really help communities that keep forests standing?

John Cannon 5 Jan 2024
Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) in a dry forest in Madagascar. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Beyond the myths: Anthropologist Alison Richard on Madagascar’s environmental realities and future

Rhett A. Butler 3 Jan 2024
A fisher casts a net in Malaysia.

Forest carbon credits and the voluntary market: A solution or a distraction?

John Cannon 3 Jan 2024

In Brazil’s Caatinga, adapted agroforests are producing food from dry lands

Xavier Bartaburu (words and photos) & Rafael Martins (video) 3 Jan 2024
A dugong.

Sumatran dugong hunter struggles to adapt to changing times

Dody Hidayat, Yogi Eka Sahputra 3 Jan 2024
A woman prepares a field for paddy farming after harvesting foxtail millet.

Indigenous Gurung farmers revive climate-resilient millet in Nepal

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 1 Jan 2024
Planet satellite images of the confluence of the Rio Negro and Rio Jufari near the border of the states of Amazonas and Roraima in Brazil taken in October 2023, revealing sandbars and exposed riverbed during the severe drought that affected large parts of the Amazon rainforest. Photo courtesy of Planet Labs.

The year in rainforests: 2023

Rhett A. Butler 29 Dec 2023
One of the six newly described chameleons from Tanzania

Photos: Top species discoveries from 2023

Liz Kimbrough 27 Dec 2023

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