Between crowded roads and layers of concrete in São Paulo, a long strip of greenery now breaks up the city’s urban landscape. The area was not always a place where people came to walk beneath trees or...
Burning soil and peat drove most emissions in Canada’s record 2023 wildfire season, study finds Underground stores of rich soil and thick peat were the main fuel behind the record emissions crea...
Mangroves naturally occur along the southeast Chinese coast and traverse the provinces of Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Taiwan. Thirty-seven mangrove tree species, representing 20 families an...
For decades, New York has been associated with skyscrapers, traffic and tightly packed neighbourhoods rather than large-scale environmental restoration. Yet across the city’s streets, parks and ...
When traversing the hills of Wonogiri in Central Java, today’s visitors might take the dense areas of greenery in stride. The springs nourish nearby villages, the farms have sufficient water for numer...
Unwritten social rules, not government oversight, help keep forest land sustainable Slash-and-burn farming was blamed for destroying rainforests, but a study of 18,000 forest patches found community r...
A Common Greenshank stood on the edge of a pool of water. In the 1980s, Scotland planted commercial trees across parts of a 9,000-year-old peatland; decades later, conservationists are removing them t...
Dartmoor Nature Alliance launch their rainforests campaign at Black-a-Tor copse on Dartmoor national park (Photograph: Fern Leigh Albert) Prince William’s Duchy of Cornwall is helping double one of En...
Bangladesh is preparing for one of its most ambitious green initiatives yet: a nationwide plan to plant 250 million trees over the next five years. The program is designed to increase the country’s gr...
China has some of the most polluted cities on the planet, and for years the usual fixes, stricter emission rules, factory shutdowns, better public transport, have only chipped away at the problem. So ...