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 ...

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 ...

As climate disruption collides with a worsening water emergency, scientists are pointing to a solution that has been hiding in plain sight: working with nature instead of against it. From forests and ...

Rae Taylor Burns. Photo by Brian Canova. Since first learning about global warming at a young age, Rae Taylor-Burns has been on a mission to find solutions. As a graduate student and now postdoctoral ...

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

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. The paper, titled "Six principles to get natural climate solutions right in Africa," argues that many global initiatives to address ...

Nature-based solutions are inherently public goods. They operate across jurisdictional boundaries, involve local communities, and intersect with ...

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 ...