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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

In a new Nature Sustainability commentary, Professors Laura Pereira and Sally Archibald, and Dr. Kim Zoeller, together with 12 African co-authors, propose six guiding principles to ensure that climate ...

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 ...

Today, the National Audubon Society announced the publication of a new study in Scientific Reports that identifies places in the continental United States where conservation efforts would provide a ...

Although most countries have acknowledged the threat posed by climate change and established targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, the international community still has not made the same ...

At the United Nations climate change meeting that just concluded in Bonn, Germany, global leaders reaffirmed that the world cannot respond adequately to rising temperatures if governments continue to ...