An Italian farmer who planted unidentified seeds found in his family’s attic ended up rediscovering a little-known heritage wheat variety that could offer useful lessons for agriculture facing climate...
A £25 million conservation programme has helped restore thousands of hectares of habitat across England, plant more than 127,500 trees and bring tens of thousands of people into nature-focused activit...
Over the past decade, Indonesia has lost an estimated 12.5 million hectares of forest. The decline has put the country under significant environmental pressure and contributed to increased coastal ero...
Representative Image (AI-generated) A plant introduced with a practical purpose along the New South Wales (NSW) coast eventually became a major environmental weed. South African bitou bush was deliber...
After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, scientists explored an unusual way of dealing with radioactive contamination by using plants to absorb radionuclides from the environment. Sunflowers emerged...
China’s long-running effort to restore the degraded Loess Plateau has revealed a difference between forests planted by people and those allowed to regenerate naturally. Researchers spent 18 years moni...
Nearly 4,000 public school students, more than 200 teachers and hundreds of community members have worked with NWF Nearly 4,000 New York City public school students have taken part in an effort to res...
The natural landscape Edmondson created also became the setting for Log House Holidays. (Photos: LHH) Anthony Edmondson spent his life’s earnings buying a 130-acre abandoned gravel pit in the Cotswold...
Music fans and environmental volunteers have planted more than 33,000 sea oats along Fort Lauderdale Beach over the past 13 years, turning an annual music festival into one of South Florida’s longest-...
Tree plantation undergoing at Springwood (Image Credit: FDR Library Photo via National Park Service) In December 1943, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt donated his family home at Springwood in Hyde ...