For a week in April, high school students from Interlochen Center for the Arts joined filmmaker and Interlochen artist-in-residence Lydia Hicks to highlight progress in the transformation of Riley Woods,...Read More
Giving local communities the responsibility to manage forests — which are shrinking worldwide — could help ease poverty and deforestation, scientists said on Monday, in what they described as one...Read More
The British government has commissioned Sir Partha Dasgupta, a professor at Cambridge University, to write a report on the economic case for biodiversity as policymakers across the planet are urged...Read More
The Arbor Day Foundation has announced today that the City of Charlotte has been awarded the Foundation’s Champion of Trees Award. This award recognizes a government entity, community-based organization, or...Read More
What is the UN’s Global Assessment Report and why is it important? That humans are meddling with the natural world, in ways that we often fail to understand, is no...Read More
In the context of the Nature Map project, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), in collaboration with SDSN and the UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), has...Read More
Almost 600 conservation experts have signed the Call4Nature open letter written by wildlife charity WWF, which is being published to coincide with the IPBES report (see letter below). Overfishing “We...Read More
This Earth Day is a critical reminder of the urgent need to protect all of our species around the world. The Earth Day Network reminds us that “Nature’s gifts to our planet...Read More
Why Global Citizens Should Care From geopolitical crises in Venezuela and Central America to natural disasters in Mozambique, these photos capture the global need for resilience, change, and commitment to achieving...Read More
Why Global Citizens Should Care Deforestation contributes to climate change, soil erosion, and floods, which have caused the displacement of many indigenous communities. Multinational corporations often make use of indigenous...Read More
