Climate Action

Fungi: Our new climate allies?

Underneath the ground, intricate fungal networks are working together with plants to absorb massive amounts of carbon — equivalent to more than a...

Study: To restore grasslands, it’s time to get wild

It’s easy to understand why people want to plant trees.Ambitious reforestation efforts — now aimed at planting or conserving a trillion trees —...

For climate-fighting farms, squeeze in some trees: study

Around the world, planting crops and grazing livestock often means cutting down trees — with disastrous impacts on the climate. But are forests...

The giving trees: In Kenya, forests keep communities from the brink

Agnes Nailantei remembers a time when life was easier in Kenya’s Chyulu Hills.Nailantei comes from a long line of Maasai pastoralists who thrived...

Amid a deforestation crisis, two countries plant seeds of hope

Earth lost 3.7 million hectares (9.2 million acres) of tropical forest last year, an area nearly the size of the Netherlands, according to...

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