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Founded in 2019, OAT negotiates working land conservation easements with farmers and ranchers, helps them access financial benefits in exchange and makes sure that current and future landowners follow ...
Ross Mitchell is a traveling salesman of sorts. He spends up to two months a year on the road, driving a van thousands of miles across Australia, taking in the country’s changing landscapes, from its ...
In the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, a quiet revolution in end-of-life practices is underway. At Ramsey Creek Preserve near Westminster, South Carolina, the deceased do not rest under rows ...
Professor Jones also attributes changes in public opinion to helping ease urban river restoration. “We used to turn our backs on rivers,” he says. “But as people have seen the improvements, they have ...
Ana Pérez Mendoza, who lived in the Sant Antoni neighborhood when it was turned into a superblock in 2018, recalls similar concerns among her neighbors: “There were two really extreme points of view.
Waterline is an ongoing series that explores the solutions making rivers, waterways and ocean food chains healthier. It is funded by a grant from the Walton Family Foundation. If the Los Angeles River ...
The Museu Frederic Marès is part of Barcelona’s climate shelter network. Credit: Ajuntament de Barcelona This has been an ongoing criticism of the climate shelter network — since many public ...
Affordable car shares increase transportation access and lower living costs. But initiatives scale slowly and have to match their growth to people’s excitement. Míocar founder Gloria Huerta says that ...
Jacqueline Mukagatare, a resident of Rubavu, a district in the Sebeya catchment, is one of the many who lost their homes and standing crops to the flooded Sebeya. Things have improved now, she reports ...
Last year, Geetha Jayaram flew back to the South Indian region of Karnataka near Bangalore, where she grew up. She visited her very first patient there, Eashwaramma. Twenty-five years ago, when the ...
Dr. Sean McCormack, chair of the Ealing Wildlife Group, says that although scientific studies are still underway, the beavers have already had an “anecdotal” impact. “A few weeks after they came, ...
Across the United States, landfills are accumulating trash faster than materials can decompose. In the nearly 2,000 landfills in the US, food waste contributes over 50 percent of fugitive methane ...