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After Dedicating 16 Years of His Life to Mangroves, Man Has Helped to Plant 2 Million Trees
The “Mangrove Master” has spent the last 16 years protecting mangrove forests – and his efforts have helped to plant roughly 2 million trees.
Teen Plants Hundreds of Mangroves to Replace Trees Trampled by Hurricane Irma
This 18-year-old was heartbroken by the amount of mangroves that were damaged in Hurricane Irma – so he decided to do something about it.
West Africa Sets Out to Protect Dying Mangroves
Salt is precious in poverty-stricken coastal West Africa, but conservation experts say efforts to extract it are laying waste to mangrove swamps, causing...
Good News in History, March 14
93 years ago today, Alam Aara, the first Indian talking film was released to popular appeal. Directed and produced by Ardeshir Irani, he was...
Discovery of Electric Blue Tarantula Stuns Scientists Who Auction Naming Rights for Charity
Even arachnophobes may have to tip their hat to this beast, who seems to bend all the rules of his race by sporting electric...
The Largest Landfill in Latin America has Been Turned into a Mangrove Forest
At nearly 150 acres, the Jardim Gramacho landfill in Rio de Janeiro was one of the largest and most infamous in all of Latin...
13-Foot Sawfish Spotted Farther North Than Any in Decades Hints at Recovery of Species
While on a fishing trip with some students, hoping to be able to teach them about the habits of sharks, a scientist in Florida...
Family Swaps Their Mortgage for Motorhome to Travel USA and Have No Regrets While Saving $1,800 a Month
An American family that decided to sell their house and travel the country in a motorhome say they have no regrets, as well as...
Loss of Climate-Crucial Mangrove Forests Has Slowed to Near-Negligible Amount Worldwide, Report Hails
Reprinted with permission from World at Large, a news website of nature, politics, science, health, and travel.
They are one of the most unique and fundamental...
100 Nations Take Action To Save Oceans from Illegal Fishing and Plastic Pollution
Representatives from more than 100 countries arrived last week in France for a summit on protecting oceans from pollution, plastic, and overfishing.
The nation which...
How Peru’s Andean Condors Saved the California Condor from Extinction
This article is written by Enrique Ortiz and has been reprinted with permission from Mongabay.
A few years ago, alone on the top of a...
Australia Returns Huge Daintree Rainforest to its Aboriginal Owners, Bordering Great Barrier Reef
Over 600 square-miles of ancient rainforest with rivers, waterfalls, gorges and white sandy beaches was handed back to the traditional people who had lived...
Precious Rainforests Are Being Preserved at Highest Rate in 30 Years, After Palm Oil Moratorium in Indonesia
Indonesia holds one-third of the world's tropical rainforests, which are home to people and birds, leopards, rhinos, tigers, and gibbons playing among the lush...
Australia Announces $100 Million Initiative to Protect Our Oceans
Australia last week committed $100 million to ocean conservation in an effort to protect ‘blue carbon’ environments and reduce emissions.
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UK Prioritizes Climate Crisis By Supporting Sustainability in Developing Countries With $4 Billion Plan
The UK government has announced it will commit at least £3 billion (US $4 billion) to climate change solutions in developing countries, helping to...
World’s Largest Seagrass Restoration Project is a Virginia Success, Planting 600 Acres That Grow to Become 9,000
In what started as an experiment and became the largest success of its kind, a seagrass restoration project in Southeast Virginia is demonstrating the...
Singapore’s Plan to Plant 1 Million Native Trees Will Protect Species and Put a Park 10 Minutes From Every Citizen
In an effort to restore Singapore's once-rich mangrove forest ecosystems, the nation is embarking on a 1 million tree planting spree in hopes that...
Mangrove Trees Can Save Americans Tens of Billions in Flood Damages– So New Alliance Gets Planting
Research from UC Santa Cruz shows flooding causes $750 billion in property damage worldwide, but conservation of mangrove forests can prevent a lot.
Unemployed Single Women Are Saving Fish and Making Money by Farming Sea Sponges
Women from the Jambiani region of Zanzibar are simultaneously supporting their families and local ecosystems by taking up a new trade: sea sponge farming.
‘Landmark’ Study Lays Road Map for Exactly How We Can Restore Oceans to Former Glory in Just One Generation
This international science team has identified exactly how the world can work together to heal our disrupted oceans in as little as two to three decades.