NATURE

Helping nature help the climate

Editor’s note: April is Earth Month, when we honor humanity’s shared responsibility for nature and the climate. At Conservation International,…

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What on Earth is ‘HFLD’? (Hint: It’s about forests)

Editor’s note: From “blue carbon” to “ecosystem services,” environmental jargon is everywhere these days. Conservation International looks to make sense…

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Coffee farmers face down climate change

SAN MARTIN JILOTEPEQUE, Guatemala — José Marcelino Estrada has spent his life tending coffee. He learned from his father how…

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Ahead of pandemic talks, this doctor has nature on his mind

Dr. Neil Vora has spent much of his career chasing and treating infectious disease outbreaks, from the Ebola epidemic in…

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In new film, Indigenous traditions persist amid loss

“What is that smoke for?”In a remote Amazonian village, a young boy asks his grandfather why a haze surrounds their…

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Report warns of growing human toll as planet warms

Last year was the hottest on record — sparking major climate disasters across the globe.More than 150 “unprecedented” heatwaves, floods…

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Conservation International wins Microsoft challenge

Data — the key to understanding and tackling some of the world’s toughest problems — suffers from at least one major…

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Humanity barreling toward ‘irreversible’ climate tipping points

Editor's note: News about conservation and the environment is made every day, but some of it can fly under the…

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Why a new treaty to protect the high seas is a ‘game-changer’

Roughly two-thirds of the world’s oceans lie beyond national boundaries in an area known as the “high seas” — yet…

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As ghost junk haunts the sea, ‘mermaids’ are fighting back

Sitting on the side of a small boat off the coast of Baja California, suited up in diving gear, a…

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