Tree Planting can Help Tropical Forests ‘Recover 50% Faster’ from Logging

By Daisy Dunne, Carbon Brief

Restoring tropical forests through tree planting and selective plant removal can rapidly increase the speed at which they recover from logging, a new study says.

Natural Filters: Mussels Deployed To Clean Up Polluted Waterways

By Bruce Stutz, Yale Environment 360

When it comes to ecosystem services, freshwater mussels have much to recommend them:

With Water, Life Returns to the Colorado River Delta

By Sandra Postel, National Geographic Newswatch

Last spring, on the eighth day of the release of Colorado River water into its channel at the US-Mexico border – an event known as the “pulse flow” – I witnessed something extraordinary.