The Magpie River has become the first in Canada to be granted legal personhood rights, part of a growing global movement pushing for the Rights of Nature to be legally…
Yishan Wong is building a system that aims to rapidly transform desert land into fertile ground, for the billions of trees we need to help stop climate change.
A survey conducted by the UN, with 1.2 million participants across 50 countries, has found that the majority of people think climate change is a global emergency. The proportion of…
Developed through centuries of a living relationship with the forest, the Muyong system of land-use and land tenure zoning is recognized as a highly advanced and effective forest management and…
From January to April 2020, the rate of Amazon deforestation alerts rose sharply by 55%, according to data gathered by Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and its real-time…
A recent report shows that more than 7% of the world’s oceans and 15% of the land now have protected status, taking us closer to the goal of creating nature…
After more than five years of investigation into murders, beatings, and intimidations of environmental defenders, United Nations special reporter John Knox is calling for the UN to formally recognize the…
Archangel Ancient Tree Archive has created 75 ancient Redwood tree clones using Redwood stumps as old as 3,000 years. Founded in 1994, the California nonprofit group managed to create a…
On 4th October, Primary Industries Minister Teresa Kok declared that Malaysia was over 50% forest, and it intends to stay that way. The Minister explained that the Malaysian government will not…
After publishing research in journal Bioscience assessing how much of the earth’s terrestrial biosphere is protected, researchers are calling for a Global Deal for Nature. This deal, explain the authors,…
New statistical analysis by the NGO BirdLife International has revealed that there have been eight confirmed or highly likely extinctions this century. According to the latest “red list” assessment more…
For a country to effectively safeguard its future in a warming world, and at the same time reduce its emissions and footprint, it needs to implement sturdy social, political, legal…
