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If stepping into their shoes was an option

In this heartfelt essay, Restoration Steward Trisa Bhattacharjee reflects on hopeful dreams and harrowing loss in the Himalayas.

 

Mountain women – unsung heroes moving change

When rural women gain access to resources, services and opportunities and are given a voice, they can move mountains.

 
Anselm Hook, Flickr

Mountain adaptation solutions: turning challenges into opportunities

The climate crisis is strongly impacting mountain ecosystems and those who depend on them. Read about UNEP's mountain adaptation strategies

 
Tiger in Bhutan

Water holes and grassland restoration: a tiger conservation experiment in Bhutan

U.N. project restores water holes to keep tigers away from cattle

 
Cloud forest containing unique flora in the central highlands of Sri Lanka. Vyacheslav Argenberg, http://www.vascoplanet.com/

Cloud forests: narrow bands of biodiversity filled with mist, fog and mystery

Particular altitudinal conditions of some mountains can result in cloud forests, unique "elvin woodlands" that contain special ecosystems

 
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 pair of 6-week-old penguin chicks, left on their own by their parents, huddle together for warmth in Atka Bay, Antarctica. Photograph copyright Stefan Christmann

Best of Landscape News 2019: Biodiversity

From a new BBC series to a black-and-white photo esssay of African lions, here are the top 10 Landscape News stories on biodiversity from 2019.

 
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.

 
Climate trailblazers

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.

 
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.

 
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.

 

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