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How are young people in Latin America and the Caribbean restoring their landscapes?

GLF Live with Analì Bustos and Marlon Webb

 
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Visions from our Restoration Stewards for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

Hear from the Global Landscapes Forum's 6 Restoration Stewards on the most important decade for the planet.

 
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.

 
A village among mangrove forests in West Papua. Mokhamad Edliadi, GLF

Best of Landscape News 2019: Livelihoods

Top 10 stories on initiatives working behind the scenes to build and sustain livelihoods in harmony with nature.

 

Best of Landscape News 2019: Change-makers

From explorer Taylor Rees to author Bill McKibben, here is Landscape News' best crop of 2019 stories on inspiring change-makers.

 
Delegates at the Global Landscapes Forum New York 2019 at the U.N. headquarters. Justin K. Davey, GLF

To combat climate change this decade, restore the Earth

Efforts to restore the Earth's degraded ecosystems, from forests to oceans, rises as a solution to climate change at the Global Landscapes Forum NYC 2019.

 
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6 climate trailblazers leading the fight against global warming

At GLF New York, meet these six inspiring climate activists and practitioners who will be bringing their calls for climate action to the stage.

 
Taylor Rees

For explorer Taylor Rees, the most undiscovered landscapes lie within

Climber and filmmaker Taylor Rees reflects on the power of human-centered storytelling about climate change in Earth’s remotest regions.

 
Patagonia, Chile

Landscapes 101: Get briefed on our planet’s ecosystems

What exactly are peatlands and rangelands? Here’s all you need to know about the planet’s major ecosystems, the challenges they face, and why they matter.

 
Patagonia, Argentina

Fast facts: Mountains

A quick rundown on our planet’s ecosystems

 
Across the Himalayas, Sherpas have adapted to live at average heights of 4,480 meters above sea levels for more than 6,000 years, but now are facing new challenges as the planet warms. Kiril Rusev, Flickr

Life as a Sherpa in the age of climate change

From watching glaciers warm into lakes to growing summer vegetables for the first time, three Sherpa Himalayans share their stories.

 
Yaks, native to the Himalayas and high-altitude terrain, graze near the city of Namche Bazaar. Cameron Moore, Flickr

Summer foods and restless yaks: Nima Doma Sherpa on Himalayan village life

A Himalayan Sherpa tells how rising mountain temperatures have changed her daily life, affecting what she grows and how she views the future.

 
Tenzing (center) uses radar gather information about the Khumbu Glacier near Everest base camp. Courtesy of Tenzing Chogyal Sherpa

Warm as ice: Tenzing Chogyal Sherpa on Himalayan glacial melt

A Sherpa glaciologist's concerns for flooding and water supply are rising with the temperatures of the air and ice in the Himalayas.

 
The mantras on prayer flags, such as these in Namche Bazaar, are believed to absorb into the landscape as the flags' colors fade. Traditionally Tibetan, they have become a symbol of Sherpas and the Himalayas. Philip Milne, Flickr

More than symbols: Pasang Yangjee Sherpa on cultural invisibility

A Sherpa researcher explains the Nepalese ethnic group's relationship with climate change, as a term still in the process of being learned and as a reality.

 

What’s happening with water in Central Asia?

From melting glaciers to drought to diplomacy, a briefing

 

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