Despite extreme poverty, inequality, famine, water shortages, desertification and terrorism, Nigerien farmers have managed to successfully reforest their land. This proves how resilient people are and how much we can get done, if we want to.

This month the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from the UN has finalized a report on climate change mitigation and adaptation. And the message is clear: We are still in time to turn the tide, and there are now explicit numbers, i.e. the actual monetary cost of carbon capture. Removing a tonne of CO2 (or equivalent) from the air...

From 28/2 till 4/3 leaders from many nations will unite at the fifth United Nationals Environment Assembly (UNEA 5.2), to be held in Nairobi, Kenya. Held under the theme "Strengthening Actions for Nature to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals," UNEA 5.2 will focus on marine plastic pollution. Environmental organizations are urging that a...

In this interview with Bill Butterworth, an agriculture scientist and writer from Britain, we learn about how to deal with waste, what the links are with carbon dioxide, and how nature deals with waste. A sustainable future depends on valuing waste as a resource. Yet, humans throw away huge amounts of it. And nothing on Earth can really go...

The annual Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (the GFFA) was held on 28 January in Berlin. The topic of this year was "Sustainable Land Use: Food Security Starts with the Soil". 68 ministers of agriculture agreed to follow important recommendations on how to make farming and soil management sustainable, outlined in this communiqué, made by a...

We interviewed founder and inventor Andrew Hayim De Vries, CEO of WastePlant, about his food waste undertakings in Byron Bay, New South Wales. WastePlant is a food garden facility that provides sustainable solutions for food waste problems: they tackle food waste through composting and soil regeneration, provide better access to local and healthy...

A large, pristine coral reef was discovered 30 meters below the surface, near Tahiti. The research mission, aided by UNESCO, decribed rose-shaped corals, that stretch over 3 kilometres in length and 60 metres in width. This coral reef shows no signs of bleaching, which is exceptional. Coral bleaching is a phenomenon that occurs when the seawater...

Mangroves have an incredible ability to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and burry it in the muddy soil below the water. With these important ecosystem services in mind, WWF works on mangrove restoration and conservation, implementing a "Mangroves for Communities and Climate" initiative, active in Mexico, Madagascar, Fiji, and Colombia....

Bhutan is a country that captures more carbon than it emits, as published by the Global Citizen Movement*. While other countries pledge to achieve net-zero, this small Himalayan country, sandwiched between China and India, does not need to pledge anything because it declares to have no net carbon emissions. This is due to largely intact forests, a...