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  • Brazil's Paper Industry Adopts Blockchain for EUDR Compliance

    Dec 17, 2024, 11:47 am By Stewart Mior
    This article by Karla Mendes originally appeared in Mongabay. Brazil’s paper and pulp industry says the European Union’s deforestation-free products regulation (EUDR), which will come into effect in late 2025, won’t affect the sector’s operations,…
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  • Reviving Madagascar’s Sainte Luce Littoral Forest

    4:01pm By Stewart Mior
    The SEED Madagascar Ala Programme The Sainte Luce littoral forest, tucked away in southeast Madagascar, is one of the last remaining viable examples of its kind. Known for its extraordinary biodiversity, the forest shelters four endangered lemur species, along…
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  • Success Factors for African Land Restoration Projects

    8:52am By Syndicated Content
    This study by Ruth Kamnitzer originally appeared in Mongabay. Land degradation across Africa impacts the lives of rural Africans, who depend heavily on natural resources. Reversing land degradation while improving livelihoods can be tricky, and not all…
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  • Tech Giants Join Forces for Carbon Credits: Behind the Hype

    Sun 1:19pm By Stewart Mior
    What Is the Symbiosis Coalition? The Symbiosis Coalition, supported by tech giants Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Salesforce, has launched a new carbon credits initiative aimed at scaling nature-based solutions to climate change. Through its recently-announced…
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  • 3 Key Outcomes from the First Summit on Mangrove Conservation

    Dec 14, 2024, 10:45 am By Syndicated Content
    William Austin, University of St Andrews Mangroves are one of the most threatened ecosystems on the planet. They store carbon from the atmosphere and act as a buffer from tropical storms and coastal erosion, so mangroves are crucial to building climate…
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  • Agroecology: Blueprint for Resilient Farming in Ghana

    Dec 13, 2024, 3:32 pm By Syndicated Content
    This article by Caleb Ahinakwah originally appeared in Mongabay. Erratic rainfall and rising temperatures have hit farmers in Ghana’s semiarid Upper East region hard in recent years Planting rows of trees and allowing goats and sheep to graze their fields is…
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  • Ground Truth Weekly Forest News December 12

    Dec 12, 2024, 3:16 pm By Stewart Mior
    Philip Morris: Heroes of the Atlantic Forest? (Yes, Really)   In a move that might raise some eyebrows, Philip Morris Brasil has partnered with Brazil’s National Development Bank (BNDES) to fund up to R$ 8.88 million for ecological restoration in…
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  • Biodiversity in Brazil's Atlantic Forest Restoration

    Dec 11, 2024, 4:03 pm By Stewart Mior
    brazil, antlantic forest, restoration, tree planting, open data, almeida et. al. Are Restoration Plantings Truly Restoring Biodiversity? When most non-Brazilians think of Brazil’s forests, the Amazon typically comes to mind. However, much of Brazil’s…
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  • Forest Carbon Monitoring Tool Aims to Use AI

    Dec 10, 2024, 9:41 am By Syndicated Content
    This article by Abishyant Kindagoor was originally published in Mongabay. A newly launched tool combines satellite images, lidar data and artificial intelligence to estimate carbon stored in forests around the world. The Forest Carbon Monitoring tool,…
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  • Labour Government to Scale Up UK Tree Planting

    Dec 9, 2024, 1:26 pm By Stewart Mior
    uk tree planting, uk reforestation, Mary Creagh, Stuart Goodall, labour government UK Launches Tree Planting Taskforce UK Launches Tree Planting Taskforce to Green the Future The UK government has launched a Tree Planting Taskforce to oversee the planting of…
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  • Greenland is Getting Greener in Narsarsuaq’s Arboretum

    Dec 9, 2024, 8:53 am By Syndicated Content
    Adriana Craciun, Boston University As I walked through passport control in Reykjavik en route to Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, the border agent asked me the standard question of why I was travelling. “To look at trees,” I answered. He peered at me…
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  • Carbon Trading Market Could be Held Hostage by Speculators

    Dec 8, 2024, 5:53 pm By Syndicated Content
    Emre Tarim, Lancaster University Our planet’s future hangs in the balance due to the unabated greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels. Treating these emissions as something that can be owned and exchanged in a market has been touted as a solution…
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  • Ground Truth Weekly Forest News December 7

    Dec 7, 2024, 9:01 am By Stewart Mior
    EU Delays Deforestation Law but Keeps It Strong  ????  Continuing our wmotional rollercoaster, the EU has postponed its new anti-deforestation law by a year, giving businesses more time to adapt. However, it refused to weaken the rules, which require…
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  • Are Tree Plantations Sustainable? With Gianluca Cerullo

    Dec 4, 2024, 3:21 pm By Stewart Mior
    Planting Trees to Save the Planet Planting trees is often touted as an easy and photogenic method of carbon sequestration, with international calls to plant one trillion trees and Project Drawdown listing it as the fifth best solution for avoiding the…
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  • Mangrove Restoration Tracker Tool: Interview With Tom Worthington

    Dec 3, 2024, 1:26 pm By Stewart Mior
    This article by Abhishyant Kidangoor originally appeared in Mongabay A new tool aims to help managers of mangrove restoration projects track their progress and measure final outcomes against initial goals. The Mangrove Restoration Tracker Tool was developed by…
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  • Can China’s ‘Ecological Redlines’ Help Other Countries?

    Dec 2, 2024, 1:43 pm By Stewart Mior
    This article by Zhang Yiyi originally appeared in Dialogue Earth. Around the world, differing financial capabilities and a lack of regional cooperation mean that the availability of biodiversity data varies wildly between countries. Many developing nations…
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  • Reforesting the Amazon: America's DFC Steps In

    Dec 1, 2024, 6:23 pm By Stewart Mior
    $37M Gift from the Development Finance Corporation (DFC) The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is investing $37 million into Mombak’s reforestation projects in Brazil, as reported by the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce. This…
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  • Nature-Based Solutions: Affordable and Effective ????

    Nov 29, 2024, 11:04 am By Stewart Mior
    Diane-Laure Arjaliès, Western University and Tima Bansal, Western University As the world gathers in Azerbaijan for this year’s annual UN climate conference (COP29), the urgency to act on climate change has never been greater. The stakes in Baku are high…
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  • Ground Truth Weekly Forest News November 28

    Nov 28, 2024, 2:14 pm By Stewart Mior
    Kenya Agroforestry Transparency and Resilience ????????????   The Western Block Carbon Project is tackling climate challenges near Lake Victoria with bold plans of helping 40,000 Kenyan farmers regenerate degraded lands with agroforestry. By combining tree…
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  • Restoring Guinea-Bissau's Mangroves: A Holistic Approach ????

    Nov 28, 2024, 10:21 am By Stewart Mior
    This article by Ruth Kamnizter was originally published in Mongabay. Though small, Guinea-Bissau has sizable amounts of mangroves, which cover 9% of this West African country. Farmers clear patches of mangroves to grow rice, but climate change and…
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