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Forests

Forests

A person standing outdoors in a field filled with upright white tubes

The Rio Grande Valley was once covered in forest. One man is trying to bring it back.

The Tamaulipan thorn forest once covered 1 million acres on both sides of the Mexico-U.S. border. Restoring even a fraction of it could help the region cope with the ravages of a warming world.

“The forest is us, and we are it too”

“The forest is us, and we are it too”

How native forest in Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park is getting a helping hand from an unlikely partner: coffee farming.

A person outdoors in a rolling landscape hammering posts

“We’re giving nature a very gentle helping hand”

How Hedley Tomlyn and his team are restoring a Scottish conifer plantation into native broadleaf forest.

Looking from behind as a person walks into a forest

Billions have been raised to restore forests, with little success. Here’s the missing ingredient

Forget the tragedy of the commons. To build healthier forests, we need to harness the power of community.

Looking down at a growing oak tree seedling with its leaves covered in droplets of water

How Squiirrel is addressing the need for seed

This new made-in-Canada app is connecting collectors of native tree seed with the planters, nurseries and restoration ecologists who need them.

Two people in foreground and more in background, surrounded by mangroves and gathering seeds

“We have to protect the mangroves so they can protect us”

On the coast of the Bay of Bengal where India meets Bangladesh, a loss of mangrove forests has increased the threat from tropical cyclones. But a group of dedicated volunteers is working to rewild these natural defences.

Two people in firefighting gear watch a group of brush fires in a forest

Learning how to garden a forest

An outdated land management ideology with roots in colonialism is keeping California and the America West from taking essential steps toward mitigating increasingly destructive wildfires.