The foxes that spawned an urban rewilding movement
Montreal’s Darlington Ecological Corridor began as a tool to help urban foxes survive. Now, it’s become so much more.
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Ethiopia’s grand tree-planting plan to save its nearly eradicated forests
Efforts to restore lost forests often fail, but Ethiopians are betting big: planting billions of saplings to revive habitat, regenerate soil, and stabilize the land.
Big solar vs. forests: Why we remain determined to save these trees
The veneration of solar has taken up the oxygen in the climate conversation. While we have a modest array ourselves, I’m worried solar has been presented to the climate-worried public as a panacea, as if a wholesale switch to solar would stabilize the climate.
The case for rewilding your backyard (and front yard too)
In the face of climate change, these small changes can support the recovery of declining populations of birds, insects, and other pollinators.
Why I paint endangered species as sacred icons
I started painting endangered species the way I once painted saints and angels. Each painting became a kind of prayer and an appeal to our capacity to widen our love and awaken our conscience.
The Australian oyster reef revival
A successful restoration project on the Adelaide coast is raising hopes for the future of a long-lost ecosystem.
On autumn asters, bumblebees find warmth at season’s end
Sowing flowers in spring may have a surprising effect on the inner lives of bees.
Mombasa: Key outcomes from the Our Ocean Conference in Kenya
A major ocean conference has ended in Mombasa, Kenya, with just a handful of countries committing to high-level political declarations on banning deep-sea mining, protecting climate-resilient coral reefs and combatting illegal fishing.
Finding hope and purpose in a world in crisis
After years of turning her backyard into a haven for wildlife, the author, Cylvia Hayes, watched the songbirds suddenly disappear. What began as a personal loss became a reflection on eco-grief, ecological decline, and how to find meaning, connection, and hope in a world undergoing profound environmental change.
Meet the artist whose decoys are rebuilding the world’s seabird colonies
For more than a decade, Sue “Seabird Sue” Schubel’s lifelike decoys have anchored a global seabird restoration effort built on “social attraction,” luring colony-nesting birds back to lost or safer habitats, a strategy that has aided about a third of the world’s seabird species, including some of the most endangered.
In defense of the disappearing Sagebrush Sea
The largest intact ecosystem in the lower 48 states is being sold off because Americans were trained to see it as wasteland.
The cardinal’s lesson: What we fail to notice, we rarely protect
An encounter with a singing cardinal in a quiet spring woodland prompts a reflection on what birdsong can teach us about listening and the overlooked connections that bind human life to the wider living world.
