Land in Balance

Ireland’s struggle to balance competing interests offers insights for others weighing the options.

In order to protect migratory birds, officials are trying to make Lake Nasser an ecotourism destination, with boat owners who previously guided hunters serving as custodians of biodiversity.

The park aims to restore the hydrological basin of the Valley of Mexico, provide greenspace for residents and combat climate change. Can it be an example for other projects?

On Yemen’s Socotra island, poverty and political disruption hinder efforts to give its prized dragon’s blood tree a future

Sediment built up behind dams has negative affects downstream, so experts argue we need to reconnect rivers to floodplains.

When it comes to managing woodlands to meet multiple needs, Irish activists underscore the importance of considering the forest as well as the trees.

From printable DNA to bird-bashing buildings these 15 issues are likely to have a big impact on biodiversity in 2024.

Prescribed fires are a positive land management method, but when the flames occasionally escape control, the resulting damage to land and private property also hurts this conservation tool’s reputation.

We need to view limits not as restrictions to be fought against, but as boundaries that enable systems to work.

STORY FROM SAHAN JOURNAL | Tribal, state and federal governments are working to adapt to the changing environment to ensure wild rice, or manoomin as wild rice is called in the Ojibwe language, lives on in Minnesota

Throughout the Great Lakes region, archaic wastewater systems, crumbling infrastructure and segregated housing create a perfect storm of flooding vulnerability.

If we want to transform our relationship with food, we need to think about more than just productivity and carbon.

To achieve biodiversity goals, conservation organizations need to ensure local residents play a lead role in designing and implementing initiatives.

By compensating landholders for land restoration, government programs support services worth more than the cost

Growing crops beneath solar panels can shrink agriculture’s thirst for irrigation while providing food and electricity, too

15 emerging issues that anyone who cares about biodiversity ought to keep an eye on

After megafires in the region, some forest systems may never return to their pre-fire conditions. Now, ecologists are redefining how forest ecosystems might be restored in a way that increases resiliency.

Some are skeptical of claims the country’s massive global infrastructure program can be sustainable

Some researchers say that ignoring non-English papers could have disastrous consequences for conservation

This “indigenous revolution” aims to prevent catastrophic blazes, protect biodiversity, and enhance cultural and economic well-being at the same time

As climate change alters the movement of water on land and in the air, a call for Slow Water

Enforcement, policy and funding are critical if Indigenous people are to continue to sustainably manage mahogany

Important ways we can help minimize the risk of future disease by rethinking how we farm, eat, trade and interact with other species

“Nature-Based Solutions” and “Natural Climate Solutions” leave too much room for greenwashing

Evaluating radical new solutions based on whether they scale can be directly at odds with the very nature of these solutions.

15 things biodiversity protectors are watching out for in 2022

With Covid-19 upending conventional sources of conservation funding, conservationists are rethinking how to fund their work.

Company policies, new technologies, innovative financing and more are brightening prospects for the tropical rainforests — but time is short.

Revitalization of a traditional agricultural practice known as farmer managed natural regeneration is bringing new life to millions of acres of degraded land while boosting food, fuel, habitat and carbon storage.

Adoption of best management practices on farms near Green Bay, Wisconsin, could help answer nagging questions about how well these strategies work to reduce nutrient pollution.

An evolving concept called “sustainable intensification” aims to bridge the gap between conventional agriculture and organic farming

Many old dumps contain useful materials. Whether they’re worth extracting depends on how we value other benefits such as preventing pollution and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Bogeys may be gone, but birdies and eagles thrive as former greens and fairways are transformed into wild spaces.

Roads often present peril for wildlife - but with good planning, they can benefit animals instead.

As word gets around that soil is alive, farmers have adopted a whole new attitude toward their land

Clocks are ticking, and the only planet we have to live on is changing right before our eyes. What are we going to do about it?

A new global ‘roadmap’ shows where to put roads for maximum benefit and least cost to the Earth.

Sensitized to the environmental costs of livestock, a new generation eyes options for changing our carnivorous ways.

Some uncommon grains have environmental advantages that could be beneficial in a changing world. But making the uncommon common can be difficult.

Bringing intensive farming practices to the developing world could help meet escalating food demand. But such practices need lots of energy — creating new challenges.