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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...

5 things you should know about wetlands

Wetlands — swamps, marshes and other water-saturated lands — link organisms in land and water in a way that allows them to coexist...

News spotlight: Sharks are deserting coral reefs. Here’s why that matters

As ocean temperatures have soared in the past year, new research shows that some sharks are abandoning coral reefs — a troubling sign...

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