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UN climate accountability resolution passed May 20, 2026, with 141 votes in favor transforming the International Court of Justice's 2025 Advisory Opinion, clarifying states' legal obligations to protect the climate into an action roadmap, led by Vanuatu alongside a cross-regional core group including Barbados, Colombia, Kenya, Marshall Islands, Palau, Philippines, demonstrating multilateral cooperation advancing climate justice.

Climate Justice

25.05.26

UN Climate Accountability Resolution Passes, Translating ICJ Climate Opinion into Action Roadmap

The Green Riyadh initiative includes planting 7.5 million trees across Saudi Arabia's capital by 2030, transforming 545 square kilometers with native, drought-resistant species, including ghaf, acacia, and sidr, that thrive in extreme heat while requiring minimal irrigation and supporting desert biodiversity.

Climate

25.05.26

Green Riyadh Initiative Transforms Saudi Capital with 7.5 Million Trees in World’s Largest Urban Afforestation Project

Women-led conservation enterprises in Kenya give Maasai women the tools and training to build nature-based businesses that restore local ecosystems while securing their families' financial futures.

Community

25.05.26

How Women-Led Conservation Enterprises in Kenya are Restoring Land and Rebuilding Livelihoods

The rainmaking drought solution brought six unlikely summer rains to Oregon during 2024's worst fire season, cutting the catastrophic burn rate 77% from 36,585 to 6,162 acres daily after August 17, the first precipitation following strategic watering of large forest trees with 32,750 gallons total investment.

Contributed Articles

22.05.26

Rainmaking with Trees as a Drought Solution Cuts Oregon Wildfire Burn Rate through Strategic Forest Hydration

The largest biodiversity survey in Vietnam deployed 1,176 camera trap stations across 21 protected forests, capturing 120,000 wildlife detections over 350,000 camera-trap days, and revealing species richness increasing at 16 sites despite severe depletion of large carnivores and herbivores from decades of intensive snaring.

Southeast Asia

22.05.26

Wildlife Recovery Detected in Largest Biodiversity Survey in Vietnam

A new study by the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society finds that Canada's protected areas generated nearly $11 billion in GDP and supported 150,000 jobs in 2023–2024, making a strong economic case for conservation investment.

North America

21.05.26

The Economic Value of Canada’s Protected Areas Reaches Billions

Caption: Costa Rica's ecosystem services payment program valued the nation's natural capital at US$14.5 billion annually, with mangroves providing the greatest economic benefit at US$8,744 per hectare through carbon storage, coastal protection, fisheries support, and biodiversity conservation, exceeding forest and ocean ecosystem values.

Central America

21.05.26

Costa Rica Expands Ecosystem Services Payment Program Beyond Forests to Mangroves, Coral Reefs, and Ocean Conservation

Health In Harmony is supporting the Xipaya Indigenous Peoples in protecting 2.5 million hectares of Brazilian Amazon rainforest by listening deeply to community needs and backing locally designed solutions that link human wellbeing directly to forest survival.

Contributed Articles

20.05.26

How Community Wellbeing in the Xipaya Indigenous Territory is Supporting Brazilian Amazon Conservation

New research suggests Indigenous approaches to healing the mind-nature divide could offer a path through today's overlapping crises, as scientists link the colonial roots of human disconnection from nature to worsening ecological, mental health, and social instability.

Indigenous Knowledge

20.05.26

Indigenous Approaches to Healing the Mind-Nature Divide Offer New Pathways

A Miyawaki pocket forest in urban Cambridge demonstrates how dense planting of native species can rapidly restore biodiversity in small urban spaces.

Biodiversity

20.05.26

Miyawaki Pocket Forest in Urban Cambridge is Growing into a Thriving Ecosystem

The Bank of England's plan to feature biodiversity on British currency will replace historical figures like Winston Churchill and Jane Austen with native plants and animals.

Policy

20.05.26

Biodiversity on British Currency: UK Banknotes to Feature Native Wildlife

Smarter crop breeding, precision agriculture, and improved livestock management show how food production efficiency and climate change mitigation go hand in hand, delivering more food from the same land while cutting the emissions and deforestation that conventional farming drives.

Food

19.05.26

Food Production Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation Go Hand in Hand

Chocolate with the lowest climate impact is often dark chocolate, which contains less dairy and therefore produces fewer greenhouse gas emissions.

Food

19.05.26

Chocolate with the Lowest Climate Impact Depends on What’s Inside

Ireland's peat bog rewilding transforms previously drained and degraded bogland into living, moisture-rich ecosystems where sphagnum moss, heather, and native plants slowly reclaim the land over years of careful restoration.

Biodiversity

18.05.26

From Turf Cuttings to Thriving Habitat: Ireland’s Peat Bog Rewilding in Action

Rewilding in North America is delivering measurable long-term results after nearly 30 years, with restored wildlife populations and reconnected ecosystems offering growing evidence that large-scale conservation efforts can reverse decades of ecological decline.

Biodiversity

18.05.26

Rewilding in North America Shows Progress After Nearly Three Decades

Boston-based Bow Seat is turning eco-anxiety into climate action by giving young people aged 11 to 18 a creative outlet through art, film, poetry, and storytelling, with its 2026 Ocean Awareness Contest inviting entries on personal connections to the ocean through June 8.

Contributed Articles

15.05.26

The Climate Solution You Don’t Hear Enough About

The platform rescues produce rejected for cosmetic reasons, connecting more than 100 farmers with 30 restaurants, including two Michelin Bib Gourmand recipients, offering food up to 72% cheaper while ensuring farmers earn fairer prices.

Community

15.05.26

How a Philippine Teen-Led Food Waste Solution Became a Lifeline After a Typhoon

The Underline Miami park trail and nature corridor transforms space beneath elevated rail lines into a green urban pathway connecting communities and nature.

Community

14.05.26

The Underline Miami Park Trail and Nature Corridor is Transforming Urban Space

The WFP's Sahel Integrated Resilience Programme demonstrates how community resilience building across five Sahel countries can deliver measurable food security gains that hold even after direct support ends.

Africa

14.05.26

Why Community Resilience Building Across Five Sahel Countries is a Model Worth Scaling

What began as a personal blog in Lagos in 2016 has grown into SustyVibes, a youth-led climate movement with 800 volunteers across Africa, the UK, and the US, built on the idea that sustainability should feel relevant, accessible, and genuinely cool to young people.

Contributed Articles

13.05.26

From Blog to Movement: How SustyVibes Built Africa’s Youth-Led Climate Community

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