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Trees for the Future, a US-based NGO, has planted 65 million trees in dozens of countries. And they’re still going. For almost exactly 20 years now, Trees for the Future has been coaching farmers on sustainable agroforestry techniques. That’s a fancy way to say farmers can improving their soil and crop quality by planting trees [...]
The Xingu River — home to some 600 species of fish — is one of the largest tributaries running through the Amazon. But not if the Brazilian state power company has their way. What would be the world’s third largest dam, called the Belo Monte, would flood over 200 square miles of tropical rainforest; about [...]
Researchers in have discovered ancient, extremophile life forms that survive with neither light nor oxygen underground in Antarctica. From the surface, the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Eastern Antarctica appears to be one of the most desolate places on Earth. And indeed it is. Apart from a few glaciers, the land is ice-free. No animals live [...]
Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, is funding conservationists who are developing a bio-barier based on chemicals identified in the urine of the African Wild Dog. The barrier would be used to manage the movement of dog packs and possibly become a model for similar systems for other endangered species. In the middle of the [...]
