Let’s face it. Talk about biodiversity loss at a party and you’re unlikely to make friends. Talk about an army of seed-firing drones, however, and suddenly you’re the coolest person there. Well believe it or not, an Australian start-up is doing exactly that. Using a fleet of highly advanced 'octocopters', AirSeed Technology is fighting deforestation by... Continue Reading →
This story by Michael Grunwald originally appeared in Canary Media and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. Feeding the world without frying the world would be a miraculous achievement. Somehow, we’d need to grow far more food with far less environmental impact... Continue Reading →
This Super-Tree Could Help Feed the World and Fight Climate Change
It is difficult to imagine that when Li Zhenhai and his wife Jiang Kaizhi came to live in Morin Dawa Daur Autonomous Banner in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region nearly four decades ago, there was no electricity, tap water or fresh vegetables. Even more difficult to imagine is that under the harsh living conditions they... Continue Reading →
Man’s dream greens barren mountains
Editor's Note: The eyes of the world are turning to China. In this ongoing series How-to China, we tell stories about how Chinese approaches promote understanding and solve problems around the globe and how Chinese and foreign cultures meet and mingle. The government of Daur Autonomous Banner of Morin Dawa – administered by Hulunbuir city... Continue Reading →
How-to China: Tree-planters turn barren mountains green
Planting more trees is one of a combination of solutions to combating climate change, but some trees are far better than others. Which ones though? Scientists have designed an experimental forest in England to work out the best formula for achieving ambitious tree planting targets. "They've lived for so long; just think what they've seen."... Continue Reading →
1,000-year-old oaks used to create ‘super forest’
SEATTLE — As the Pacific Northwest sweltered through a recent record-breaking heat wave, many residents here in America's least air-conditioned city sought relief under the shade of cedars and maples in city parks. But in some areas of Seattle, that shelter was hard to come by. “If you look at aerial photographs, north Seattle looks... Continue Reading →
A cool idea for low-income urban areas hard hit by warming climate: More trees
Between a death and a burial was hardly the best time to show up in a remote village in Madagascar to make a pitch for forest protection. Bad timing, however, turned out to be the easy problem. This forest was the first one that botanist Armand Randrianasolo had tried to protect. He’s the first native... Continue Reading →
The first step in using trees to slow climate change: Protect the trees we have
The refoorest commitment charter refoorest in full transparency Our mission We have created refoorest with the objective of empowering everyone to take action against climate change. By planting as many trees as possible, we are thus contributing to the objective of 1.2 trillion trees planted by 2030 to end the environmental crisis. Our economic model... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 