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Youth-led forest restoration began when nine-year-old Felix Finkbeiner proposed planting one million trees per country, growing into a movement that has trained over 104,800 Climate Justice Ambassadors across 76 countries to plant trees, give speeches, and organize their communities.

Community

21.09.26

Youth-Led Forest Restoration Movement Traces Back to a 9-Year-Old’s Question About Climate Change

Grauer's gorilla, the world's largest gorilla subspecies, numbers around 6,800 individuals in eastern DRC, less than half the population recorded three decades ago, as community-led ranger patrols work to locate undocumented groups and ease pressure on this critically endangered animal.

Central Africa

21.09.26

Community Patrols Open a New Path for the Survival of Grauer’s Gorilla in the DR Congo

Canadian students in rural Saskatchewan, remote Labrador, and a Mi'kmaw community in Nova Scotia are using school hydroponic systems to grow fresh food on-site, tackling food insecurity in communities where the nearest grocery store can be a 45-minute drive away and wilted trucked-in produce is the norm.

Contributed Articles

18.09.26

Growing Without Soil and Without Limits: How Canadian Schools are Using Hydroponics to Fight Food Insecurity

A four-year study tracking 2,778 Australians found personal climate actions and collective change move together rather than compete, with people who engaged in more individual behaviors like biking or growing food also showing greater participation in rallies and petitions.

Climate

18.09.26

New Study Shows Personal Climate Actions and Collective Change Reinforce Each Other, Not Compete

Climate-resilient farming in Panama helped coffee growers and ranchers adapt to climate change through agroforestry and tree-lined water corridors, part of an Adaptation Fund and Fundación Natura partnership reaching more than 114,000 people.

Central America

17.09.26

Climate-Resilient Farming in Panama Helps Coffee Growers and Ranchers Adapt to a Changing Climate

The bluebuck de-extinction project reconstructed the extinct antelope's genome from museum specimens scattered across seven European collections, revealing genetic variants responsible for its silvery slate-blue coat and distinctive facial markings before its extinction around 1799 near South Africa's Cape Floristic Region.

Science

17.09.26

Bluebuck De-Extinction Project Aims to Resurrect Africa’s First Recorded Mammal Extinction

For the A'uwẽ-Xavante people of Brazil, caring for the Cerrado is not environmental activism but lived culture, woven into seed gathering, ceremonies, food systems, and the intergenerational defense of a living territory they call 'ró.'

Contributed Articles

16.09.26

The Cerrado is Kin: How the A’uwẽ-Xavante Continue to Care for Their Territory

Enforcing EU marine protected areas is now the central mission of the newly launched MPA Legal Coalition, a Brussels-based alliance of eleven organizations including Oceana, ClientEarth, and the Blue Marine Foundation, formed to tackle the destructive fishing that continues inside zones legally designated to protect ocean life.

Europe

16.09.26

Enforcing EU Marine Protected Areas Becomes the Focus of a New Legal Coalition

Technology for nature conservation identified nine individual jaguars among 147 species detected through AI-trained camera traps and acoustic monitors in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, part of a Tech4Nature partnership between IUCN and Huawei now active across six flagship countries.

Technology

16.09.26

Technology for Nature Conservation Deploys AI Cameras and Underwater Sensors Across Six Countries

A $3.5 million GEF-funded project led by IUCN is strengthening conservation across the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka, a UNESCO World Heritage site recognized as one of the island's most biodiverse landscapes.

Ecology

15.09.26

IUCN and GEF Team Up to Protect the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka

An orphaned grizzly cub rescue near Pink Mountain in British Columbia gave a frightened, underweight bear cub a second chance at life after the Northern Lights Wildlife Society was alerted to her presence at a remote camp roughly two hours north of Fort St. John on July 13.

North America

15.09.26

Orphaned Grizzly Cub Rescue Ends Weeks of Danger Near Pink Mountain

A mesophotic coral ecosystem off Benin, presumed dead for over sixty years, has been confirmed alive through sonar mapping and underwater drone surveys, marking the first documented record of this rare deep-water habitat in the Gulf of Guinea.

Oceans

14.09.26

Living Mesophotic Coral Ecosystem Discovered in the Gulf of Guinea After Six Decades

European bison reintroduction in Romania has grown a free-ranging herd past 250 animals.

Eastern Europe

14.09.26

European Bison Reintroduction Restores Wild Balance in Romania’s Mountains

The Big Butt Hunt turns an often-overlooked form of litter into something communities can see and measure.

Contributed Articles

11.09.26

From Filtering Sand to Seeking a Filter-Free Future

The Okefenokee Swamp UNESCO designation places Georgia's 700-square-mile wetland alongside the Galápagos Islands and Great Barrier Reef, recognizing a landscape supporting more than 400 vertebrate species, including American alligators and the endangered eastern indigo snake.

Ecology

11.09.26

Okefenokee Swamp UNESCO Designation Caps Campaign That Beat Back a Mining Threat

Solar-powered plastic-to-hydrogen technology cleared a major milestone as University of Cambridge researchers demonstrated a solar reactor converting plastic waste into clean hydrogen fuel outdoors at near-commercial scale, moving one of the most promising dual-waste solutions out of the laboratory and into the real world.

Northern Europe

10.09.26

Solar-Powered Plastic-to-Hydrogen Close to Commercial Scale

Eco-charcoal briquettes made from palm nut shells are replacing wood charcoal in Porto-Novo households, turning agricultural waste into a cleaner, circular cooking fuel.

Circular Economy

10.09.26

Gbobètô’s Eco-Charcoal Briquettes Support the Circular Economy in Porto-Novo, Benin

South Africa's Arbor Month and Heritage Month share September, a fitting overlap in a country where ancient trees like the Sagole Baobab in Limpopo store memory and history as much as they store carbon.

Contributed Articles

09.09.26

Trees, Heritage, and the Art of Planting Well

Restoring the Thames Estuary has become the focus of a major new partnership working to heal 320 hectares of coastal habitat by 2030 within one of Europe's most valuable wetlands, where the River Thames meets the North Sea across a 250,000-hectare landscape stretching from Felixstowe to Whitstable.

Ecology

09.09.26

Restoring the Thames Estuary Brings Hope for Wildlife and Communities

Rangeland restoration in Jordan transformed the 180-hectare Royal Botanic Garden from an overgrazed site into thriving pasture, allowing herders to graze livestock for up to 120 days annually while native plant species rebounded from 436 to more than 600, including 22 endangered species.

Ecology

09.09.26

Rangeland Restoration in Jordan Turns Herder Fears into a World Restoration Flagship

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