Women Activists in El Salvador Are Organizing To Prevent Deforestation and Loss of Access To Water
A group of women in rural El Salvador is standing up against a major infrastructure project that threatens to clear hundreds of hectares of forest and cut off access to rivers that provide the community with clean drinking water.
Read MorePeru’s Indigenous Tribes Are Using Tech Tools to Track Amazon Deforestation
Members of nearly 40 Indigenous communities in northern Peru were given training to use smartphone mapping apps that receive early deforestation alerts.
Read MoreEcosia Review: Is It Legit? How Can It Plant Trees For Free?
We break down how Ecosia works, whether or not it’s legit, if using it actually plants trees, and what you can use instead if you’re so inclined. Plus, some good news!
Read MoreTree-Free Paper Is Saving Forests and Farmers in Washington State
Columbia Straw Supply works with local balers to buy up all that leftover wheat straw, which Columbia Pulp turns into pulp for paper products, giving farmers a new stream of revenue — and pushing the paper industry in a more sustainable direction.
Read MoreUganda Is Helping Farmers Grow Trees for Money in Bid to Reverse Forest Loss
The country is curbing encroachment by paying farmers to grow trees for firewood and timber, but environmentalists say outside of plantations, the forest is still shrinking
Read MoreThese 'Holistic Engineers' Have a Plan To Restore a Dry Egyptian Desert Into a Lush Forest
A group of “holistic engineers” wants to return the arid Sinai peninsula to the lush, green landscape it once was.
Read MoreThis Tree Planting Initiative In Chicago Is Successfully Combatting Environmental Racism
A Chicago effort to plant 75,000 new trees aims to identify areas in greatest need of additional tree cover and prioritize restoring a green canopy in these under-resourced neighborhoods disproportionately affected by climate change.
Read MoreTel Aviv Has Shade Down to a Science
While other cities wait for their newly planted trees to grow, the Israeli city is updating an age-old cooling method for the 21st century.
Read MorePlant a Tree By Browsing: Q&A with Ecosia's Pieter van Midwood
The chief tree-planting officer of Ecosia, a search engine that uses its advertising revenue to fund tree-planting projects, Pieter van Midwood, talks about Ecosia’s business model, its approach to tree planting, and the reforestation sector.
Read MoreRegenerative Agriculture in Mexico Boosts Yields While Restoring Nature
The initiative intends to restore soil health and in the process store carbon, free up more land for conservation, and maintain jobs in rural areas.
Read MoreResearchers Have Found a Creative Way To Save Forests: They're Letting Trees Tweet
The tweeting tree’s messages are based on data from a suite of sensors on and around its trunk, using a real-time approach to tree monitoring pioneered by Witness Tree’s inspiration and sister project TreeWatch.net.
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