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Mapping Earth's underground fungal networks for the first time, an international research team estimated that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in the planet's topsoil stretch a distance roughly equivalent to traveling to the sun and back nearly a billion times.

Science

18.08.26

Mapping Earth’s Underground Fungal Networks Reveals a Hidden Giant

Geoversity's off-grid Centro Mamoní research station in the over-2,000-hectare Mamoní Valley Preserve trains biocultural leadership for conservation through immersive programs that integrate applied science, natural design, and Indigenous wisdom within one of the world's top 25 biodiversity hotspots.

Central America

18.08.26

Geoversity Trains Biocultural Leadership for Conservation from Panama’s Most Critical Biodiversity Corridor

The Sky Islands region spans 55 isolated mountain ranges across southern Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Sonora, hosting species found nowhere else.

Community

17.08.26

Protecting the Sky Islands Ecosystem: 35 Years of Conservation

Record water barrier removal in Europe reached a new high in 2025, with crews dismantling 603 river barriers across 21 countries, an 11% increase on the previous year's record and the fifth consecutive year of growth in river restoration activity.

Europe

17.08.26

Record Water Barrier Removal in Europe Frees Rivers Across the Continent

Cooling justice means shaded neighborhoods, climate-responsive buildings, and protected natural cooling systems for everyone, not just air-conditioned rooms for those who can afford them, a standard that Pakistan's growing heat crisis is making increasingly impossible to ignore.

Contributed Articles

14.08.26

How Pakistan’s Air Conditioning Crisis is Deepening Cooling Injustice

Mexican long-nosed bats depend on flowering agaves along their 1,200-kilometer migration route between central Mexico and the U.S. Southwest.

North America

14.08.26

Restoring the Bat Nectar Corridor for Threatened Migratory Bats

Rewilding the Central Apennines channels economic transformation productively as traditional livestock herding and mountain farming decline, allowing nature to rebound across abandoned landscapes while providing communities with new income sources from wildlife tourism rather than continued exodus toward cities.

Europe

14.08.26

Rewilding the Central Apennines Brings Marsican Bears Back from the Brink

Mama Martha and twelve women founded Kelompok Cinta Persahabatan, leading mangrove restoration in the Coral Triangle on Alor Island, protecting villages from erosion and supporting fisheries as part of IUCN's SOMACORE program, strengthening marine conservation across six nations.

Oceans

13.08.26

Women-Led Mangrove Restoration in the Coral Triangle Strengthens Marine Protection Across the Lesser Sunda Seascape

Zero-waste solar desalination technology turns seawater into drinking water using laser-etched black metal panels that capture solar heat with enough intensity to leave salt behind as dry solids rather than the toxic brine that conventional desalination systems discharge back into the ocean.

North America

13.08.26

Zero-Waste Solar Desalination Technology Turns Seawater into Drinking Water

New species discovered in Angola's remote Lisima plateau include eight undescribed dragonflies among 103 species recorded, three new grasshoppers, and up to 6% of all documented moth species, found by 16 African and international specialists during The Wilderness Project's February 2026 Cassai Life Atlas expedition.

Africa

12.08.26

Dozens of New Species Discovered in Angola’s Remote Lisima Plateau Headwaters

La Maraña's Servicio Forestal Comunitario is uniting diverse stakeholders across Caguas, Puerto Rico, around a single goal: planting 400 trees to cool neighborhoods, improve public health, and build a more climate-resilient city through participatory urban reforestation that gives everyone a role to play.

Contributed Articles

12.08.26

Reducing Urban Heat is Green and Collective

Reconnecting elephant habitats in Africa is gaining ground as IFAW restores a historic wildlife corridor linking protected areas across the Malawi-Zambia border, opening safe passage for elephant herds that have been cut off from each other for generations.

Southern Africa

12.08.26

Reconnecting Elephant Habitats in Africa: Inside the Malawi-Zambia Corridor Project

Community watershed restoration in Maharashtra transformed Savagontal village from a water crisis to agricultural abundance within five years through 500 farm ponds, continuous contour trenches that recharge groundwater, and gravity-fed irrigation, enabling 90% adoption of drip systems across diverse crops.

Community

11.08.26

Paani Foundation’s Water Cup Transforms Community Watershed Restoration in Maharashtra Across Thousands of Villages

Rolande Ansiima Casinga, third from right, founded FOLONA in Nakivale Refugee Settlement after fleeing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, building refugee-led permaculture education in Uganda that trained over 500 people across seven nationalities through 12+ Permaculture Design Certificate courses and community farming.

Africa

11.08.26

FOLONA Hub Grows Refugee-Led Permaculture Education in Uganda from Nakivale Settlement

Wildlife's role in climate mitigation received its first formal scientific endorsement when 287 researchers signed a joint declaration at the UNFCCC talks in Bonn, marking a landmark moment in the effort to recognize animal populations as active participants in the global carbon equation.

Wildlife

10.08.26

Scientists Unite on Wildlife’s Role in Climate Mitigation

Mapping Africa's groundwater brings renewed attention to the wells, boreholes, and rural water points that quietly sustain daily life across the continent.

Africa

10.08.26

Mapping Africa’s Groundwater: A Hidden Buffer Against a Hotter Future

Indoor garden projects are seeing a rise in Canadian schools and educational communities, with students leading the way in combining agricultural knowledge with food security significance. They’re also getting creative with the produce they grow, all thanks to some sprouting ideas.

Contributed Articles

07.08.26

When Students Grow Their Own Food, Something Bigger Takes Root

Five Māori co-managed marine reserves protect 308 square kilometers along New Zealand's Otago coast, including giant kelp forests, offshore canyons, bryozoan thickets, and habitat for endangered yellow-eyed penguins, northern royal albatross, and New Zealand sea lions.

Oceania

07.08.26

New Zealand Establishes First Māori Co-Managed Marine Reserves Along Otago Coast

Dugongs and blue carbon are more closely linked than previously understood, with a new modeling study suggesting that the grazing habits of these marine mammals could amplify seagrass carbon capture by more than twice and sediment carbon storage by more than 2.6 times compared to ungrazed seagrass beds.

Oceans

06.08.26

Dugongs and Blue Carbon: New Study Links Grazing to Stronger Seagrass Carbon Storage

What began as one protected area expanded into eight MPAs across Shark Fin Bay and Taytay Bay within ten years as coral reef restoration in Palawan engaged surrounding communities through dive training, alternative livelihoods, fish restocking, releasing 1,424 fish across 21 species, and environmental education reaching over 1,000 students.

Eco Amplifier

06.08.26

Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation Transforms Coral Reef Restoration from One Island to Eight Marine Protected Areas

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