CONSERVATION NEWS

In an announcement today at New York Climate Week, nine philanthropic organizations pledged US$ 5 billion over the next decade to support the creation and expansion of protected areas, sustainable management of the world’s oceans and Indigenous-led conservation.

In case you missed it: Bovine potty-training technology could help curb harmful greenhouse gases, extreme weather is leading to more contact between people and animals, and scientists say sprinkling fields with rock dust could make agriculture more climate-friendly.

A new study finds that without Earth’s complex web of terrestrial and marine ecosystems we would already be seeing far more severe climate impacts than we are now.

In case you missed it: Medical experts say global warming is increasingly harmful to human health, a new study finds that the majority of fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground to avoid climate catastrophe and African montane forests store more carbon than scientists previously thought.

In case you missed it: The forests that line Brazil’s Atlantic coast are regrowing rapidly, a new list aims to describe the prospect of recovery for endangered species and projects that remove carbon from the atmosphere are growing.