Island on the Brink of Disaster Plants Thousands of Trees and is Now a Poster Kid for Adapting to Climate Change
This little island has not only recovered from the brink of disaster – their conservation efforts are now helping them to thrive.
This little island has not only recovered from the brink of disaster – their conservation efforts are now helping them to thrive.
Reviewing the most popular environmental achievements of 2018 is the perfect way to invigorate and inspire you for the year ahead.
The "Mangrove Master" has spent the last 16 years protecting mangrove forests – and his efforts have helped to plant roughly 2 million trees.
The Amazon rainforest is less vulnerable to die off because of global warming than widely believed because the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide also acts as an airborne fertilizer, a study showed on Wednesday.
Paper Companies Find Substitute for Trees
After thousands of Canadian residents joined forces to preserve a forest of 300 year-old red pines from expanded mining, the government scrapped its plans to rescind the reserve status bestowed on 840 acres (340 hectares) of pristine forest.
After thousands of Canadian residents joined forces to preserve a forest of 300 year-old red pines from expanded mining, the government scrapped its plans to rescind the reserve status bestowed on 840 acres (340 hectares) of pristine forest.
The World Wildlife Fund is celebrating the ten millionth tree planted around crucial endangered mountain gorilla habitat in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Just outside of Rockport, Texas, stands an ancient Live Oak that for well over 1,000 years has offered a long, cool shadow to weary locals during hot summers -- and now they're returning the favor. Fire fighters brought their hoses and pumped a deluge of life-giving water to the majestic oak.
The world's tropical forests are less likely to lose biomass, or plant material, this century due to the effects of global warming than previously thought, scientists said in a paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience on Sunday.
Illegal logging has practically been eliminated in the western Mexico wintering grounds of the monarch butterfly, according to a report released in August. The successful anti-logging patrols and payments to rural residents may help solve other forestry conflicts throughout the country.
Discovery of this record-breaking tree could help breed disease-resistant American Chestnuts to restore the nearly extinct species.
This man gave away 100 trees left on his lot to people who couldn't afford one, giving a merrier Christmas to many.
These "Guerrilla Grafters" splice fruit-bearing limbs on ornamental trees provide fresh fruit for people walking down the street.
A plan to plant one million trees in New York City has reached its goal two years ahead of schedule.
Last month, some of the internally displaced people from the conflicts in South Ossetia and Abkhazia planted 1,000 trees with the support of the Red Cross of Georgia.
Deforestation of the Amazon has fallen to its lowest levels since records began in 1988, according to data recently released by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research.
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