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Raíces de los bosques de manglares a lo largo de la costa en el Parque Nacional de Bali Occidental en Indonesia. La nación archipiélago alberga casi un cuarto de todos los manglares del mundo. Aulia Erlangga, CIFOR

Mangrove forests: the muddy mazes that stash carbon and hide secrets

The benefits of mangrove forests are often overlooked, despite the fact that they're some of the most biodiverse and carbon-rich landscapes on Earth.

 
A woman cleans maize, a staple food crop in Ghana. Axel Fassio, CIFOR

Ways COVID-19 could lead to less hunger in Africa

New report looks at the pandemic’s effects on nutrition and hunger in Africa, and how lessons learned could lead to a better-fed future.

 

Join 10 conversations on how to use storytelling to change today’s world

At GLF digital conference, Bill McKibben, John Vidal, Al Jazeera, Earth Journalism Network and more join Landscape News to discuss the power of narrative

 
Red panda

Before the giant panda, there was the red panda

Red panda numbers have dropped by half since 1998 – and thanks to human encroachment, the elusive species is at risk of going extinct entirely.

 
A chimpanzee in Gombe National Park, the site of Jane Goodall's research. Afrika Force, Flickr

What the genetics of COVID-19 mean for the survival of wild great apes

New research examines what genetic resemblances among primates means in the context of pandemics, and why this sounds alarm bells for great apes.

 
Kenya mountains

Kenya’s mountain treasures

A growing number of people are turning to Kirinyaga’s precolonial past to save the mountain’s vital forests from an uncertain future.

 
Digital conferencing. Courtesy of Chris Montgomery, Unsplash

The future of climate conferencing is (click) here

COVID-19 is pushing more and more events into the digital space. Can climate change conferencing retain its efficacy while going online?

 

Is the global media helping or hurting the fight against climate change?

GLF Live with John Vidal and Bill McKibben

 

How is virtual reality a tool to tackle climate change?

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How is gaming teaching new audiences about the climate crisis?

GLF Live with Elizabeth Newbury and Alan Gershenfeld

 
A satellite image from the European Space Agency color-codes different vegetative areas, helping inform watering methods to protect agriculture from effects of climate change. European Space Agency, Flickr

Fact-checking Michael Moore, green stimulus and video calls with eels

In this news roundup: Norway divests from oil sands, Michael Moore documentary sparks controversy, and how solar and wind became cheaper than coal and gas.

 
A forest in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where management plans have grown to now cover 20 million hectares of forests, despite the increasingly rate of forest area loss in Africa. Axel Fassio, CIFOR

4.06 billion remaining hectares, and other new numbers on forests… But what do they mean?

Putting the U.N.'s new Global Forest Resources Asssessment 2020, which breaks down the latest data on forest area, into context.

 

What is the role of genebanks in times of pandemic?

Q&A on COVID-19 and genebanks with ICRAF's Tony Simons and Crop Trust's Charlotte Lusty, Lava Kumar and Vania Azevedo.

 
The COVID-19 pandemic. Jernej Furman, Flickr

Negative oil prices, a Korean Green Deal, and face masks from ocean plastic

In this news roundup: Earth Day turns 50 online, nature takes over cities in lockdown, and why clean energy could be worth USD 100 trillion by 2050.

 

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