Conservation, restoration, and ecosystem management can reduce greenhouse gas emissions or increase carbon dioxide sequestration, in what are frequently referred to as "natural climate solutions." ...

New research is changing how scientists view the ground beneath rugged terrain. A study led by researchers at the University of Oregon shows that hilly and mountainous landscapes store far more ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Natural climate solutions, or NCS, range from reforestation and ...

Natural climate solutions encompass the conservation, restoration and sustainable management of ecosystems to enhance carbon storage and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. By working with biological ...

Global inventory reveals nitrogen is in shorter supply than previously thought in natural areas, which could limit carbon storage in plants and soils. “Outside of some tropical forests and drylands, ...

Humans have engineered climate change by manipulating the environment. There’s a hope that we may also be able to mitigate this, predominantly through reducing emissions, but in some cases by ...

A new study co-authored by the University of Lincoln, U.K., reveals that competitive funding schemes designed to support nature-based solutions (NbS) for flood management may be unintentionally ...

Climate action may be facing headwinds right now. But the passion, courage, and creativity that defined the climate movement for decades have not gone anywhere. Doctors continue to care for the health ...

New Jersey is spending $11 million on nature-based projects to remove carbon from the atmosphere and fight climate change. Stone Harbor in Cape May County, Stafford Township in Ocean County and ...

Left: Number of observations of each constraint, organized by constraint category. Right: Number of constraint observations in each constraint category. Conservation, restoration, and ecosystem ...