Nature Is Climate
At Bio4Climate, we contribute to planetary regeneration through research, education, collaboration and action to restore essential global biodiversity . . . and create a new climate story.
Biodiversity loss is not just the result of climate change, it is a primary driver of climate change. Only solutions that prioritize this web of life will create a truly livable climate for all.
Upcoming Events and Courses
Protect and Restore Ecosystems to Cool the Planet
Saturdays: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ET
Series Starts April 18
Earth’s most powerful climate solutions already exist. By protecting our existing, biodiverse ecosystems, we preserve and promote climate stability and cool temperatures. Through ecosystem restoration, water cycles are revived, soils rebuilt, and temperatures cooled at scale.
Bio4Climate’s 2026 Mini-Conference Series brings together leading scientists, practitioners, and restoration leaders to share powerful solutions, insights, and clear ways to take action.
Participants will engage directly with experts, explore critical climate tipping points, and discover how to support and scale restoration efforts worldwide.
This series begins April 18. Reserve your spot and be part of the solution.
Emergent Intelligence of Trees: How Symbiosis Shapes Living Systems
March 18 – May 20
Wednesdays at 12:00 pm ET and 7:00 pm ET
Trees are architects of Earth’s climate and habitability. Through transpiration, carbon chemistry, soil formation, and symbiotic partnerships with fungi and microbes, forests regulate rainfall, stabilize atmospheric systems, and cool entire regions.
Jim Laurie’s Spring 2026 Course – Emergent Intelligence of Trees explores how ecological intelligence emerges through cooperation across living systems—and how restoration can help rehydrate landscapes and rebuild resilience.
10-week course begins March 18
Registration is now open! Reduced rates and scholarships are available.
Restore Nature – Cool the Planet
Only nature has the ability to both cool the planet and lower greenhouse gas levels. Our planet is already too hot and too dry to maintain a stable climate and support life. These 4 Climate Keys are interlocking pieces of the cycles we must repair to quickly stop warming and start cooling the planet.
Cool
Healthy ecosystems full of biodiversity create direct cooling effects for our hot planet. More Nature = Less Heat.
Hydrate
Keeping water in the ground supports plants, crops and people. Beavers, insects and microbes are part of the Infiltration Team
Plant
Planting for biodiversity creates healthy ecosystems. Forests sequester carbon and use water vapor to move heat away from the Earth
protect
Indigenous leadership and wisdom can help us. Stop deforestation, industrial ag, mining, and pollution that kill off biodiversity.
Replace with regenerative practices
Q:
What about atmospheric carbon dioxide – you know – the greenhouse effect?
A:
It’s an important part of the story, but not the whole story. Learn more.
Who We Are
Bio4Climate Tells the Hidden Stories
For nearly a decade we have looked behind, around, and under the prevailing climate narratives for the missing pieces of the puzzle. We continue to bring you authors, ecorestoration specialists, and scientists from around the world who explore the interlocking systems that create a livable climate.
Stay on Top of the
Climate Conversation
Through education, policy and outreach, we promote the great potential of inexpensive, low-tech and powerful nature solutions to the biodiversity and climate crises, and work to inspire urgent action and widespread implementation of many regenerative practices.
This Week
News and Insights
Is Nature Restoration More Effective When It’s Community-Led?
A global study by climate researchers found that the success of restoration efforts hinges on the involvement of local communities. From England to India to Africa and beyond, they determined that restoration can more effectively reverse degradation, address root causes, and benefit local people if communities can shape and lead initiatives that align with their specific needs, knowledge, and aspirations.
Fortress Conservation Efforts Threaten Tanzanian Indigenous Lands and Livelihoods
Conservation efforts in Tanzania are highlighting the complex and often controversial human rights and land‑justice conflicts that occur when governments and Indigenous peoples are at odds over land ownership and actions taken in the name of “saving the planet.”
Events and Community
Conference
Protect and Restore Ecosystems to Cool the Planet
What if some of the most powerful climate solutions are already working—right now, in forests, wetlands, grasslands, and oceans around the world?
Our new mini-conference series to Protect and Restore Ecosystems to Cool the Planet brings you into direct conversation with leading scientists and restoration practitioners who are protecting and rebuilding the systems that regulate Earth’s climate. You’ll gain a deeper understanding of how ecosystems don’t just store carbon—they actively cool the planet by restoring water cycles, generating rainfall, and stabilizing temperatures in ways most climate conversations overlook.
In just two hours, you’ll hear cutting-edge insights, explore real-world restoration projects at critical tipping points, and engage live with experts on the forefront of shaping this work on the ground. Most importantly, you’ll leave with clear, tangible ways to support and participate in solutions that are already making a difference. If you’re looking for grounded hope—and a path to meaningful action—this series is for you.
The first session on Forests and Water is Saturday, April 18 from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ET. when we’ll explore forests as living hydrological systems, with a focus on their role in regulating rainfall and climate.
Atmospheric physicist Anastassia Makarieva, co-founder of the Biotic Pump Theory, will share with us the stark implications of large-scale deforestation, which does not just reduce tree cover but also severs the atmospheric moisture transport that sustains rainfall across entire continents.
Climate Strategist Rob de Laet, author of Cooling the Climate: How to Revive the Biosphere and Cool the Earth Within 20 Years, will speak on restoration efforts in northeastern Brazil and the broader implications for the Amazon and regional hydrological stability.
Books for Biodiversity Lovers
The Genius of Trees: How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World
by Harriet Rix
Jim Laurie’s current course, The Emergent Intelligence of Trees is digging deep into this detailed exploration of trees. Course participants share that this is not a quick read, as the information is dense, but well worth taking the time to explore. Rix invites us to take part in a quiet conversation that’s been happening for millennia. She doesn’t just describe trees, she seems to hear them, exploring their stories of resilience and slow, deliverable genius. She reminds us that wisdom doesn’t hurry, it grows like trees. Ring by ring, leaf by leaf.
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The 2025 Northeast Miniforest Summit featured more than a dozen speakers across two virtual half-days and an in-person bus tour, bringing together practitioners, researchers, and leaders from diverse fields to unpack the Miyawaki Method from root to canopy.
Recordings Are Now Live! Learn more and stay connected at miniforests.bio4climate.org
Tell nature’s climate story, the story of connection and life.
― Beck Mordini
Transformation in Mexico
Eco Restoration Works
Watch what happens! A degraded landscape in Mexico is transformed by regenerative management. It took only two years (the arrow points to the same tree).