We Need a New Climate Story
Nature is Climate
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.
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Tiny Forest: Big Impact
Leaders in bringing this urban forestry method to create pocket forests everywhere
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.
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EcoRestoration and Social Justice Around the World – Tuesday, June 10 – 12:00 noon ET
Join us as we explore ecorestoration programs from different continents that create an empowering alternative to colonial and extractive solutions to climate change. As top down aid programs face political challenges, we will talk with the directors of programs in Senegal and the Amazon who are working from the ground up with local communities to leverage ecorestoration into both climate and economic resilience.
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear our panelists address:
– How has the loss of USAID and other funding affected you?
– Do partnerships with large NGOs and…
Water—The Missing Climate Solution—July 10-31
What if there’s a powerful solution we’ve been overlooking—one that could actually help cool the planet, starting right where you live?
The untold story begins with water.
Water is the most overlooked climate regulator. Through the cycling of water—plants, clouds, grasslands, wetlands and forests help stabilize Earth’s temperatures. When these systems are healthy, they cool the planet. But clear-cutting, tilling, development and other destructive land management practices have dismantled these natural cooling mechanisms.
We can bring these powerful cooling systems back to life. Join us for Water…
Biodiversity Day in Danehy Park — Saturday, May 3
On Saturday, May 3rd from 3 pm to 5 pm ET Join Native Plant Community Gardeners, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (Bio4Climate), and Boston Birding for an afternoon of nature, learning, and community fun.
Featuring:
🎶 Live music
🦉 Bird-watching tour with Mari Badger (Boston Birding)
🌳 Miyawaki forest tour (Bio4Climate)
🌼 Native plant walk
🎲 Nature-inspired games for all ages
Learn about our upcoming Native Plant Pollinator Garden—a new project to bring more biodiversity and beauty to the heart of the park.
We’ll guide you through the future site,…
Wildfires Fact & Fiction — May 1, 8, 15 & 22
Wildfires are a very real threat, and we should be prepared. Unfortunately, we have been sold a range of false solutions (e.g., fuel reduction, forest thinning and prescribed burns), all at taxpayer expense.
Wildfires Fact & Fiction will equip you with the most essential knowledge to protect homes and communities, while giving our forests what they really need, which is to be naturally rehydrated and nurtured as ecosystems. Discover how thriving ecosystems, including beaver ponds, help protect communities from wildfires, and learn actionable solutions that could reshape wildfire prevention policies.
Join us for Wildfires Fact & Fiction: How…
Thaw and Freeze: The ecological, geological, and human stakes of a warming Arctic
A rapidly changing Arctic is reshaping everything. Polar bears navigate shrinking expanses of sea ice, thawing permafrost threatens coastal villages, destabilizes infrastructure, and exhales methane, and warming temperatures push more species northward into a greener arctic. These transformations are profound, and their impacts can extend far beyond the region’s ecologies that depend on them.
What do these changes mean for wildlife, humans, and the climate? How is all of this going to play out in different regions and ecosystems around the world? Does understanding these changes and seeing them with your own…
Regenerating Life: Upcoming Screenings
Regenerating Life is a groundbreaking film that reframes the climate crisis by focusing on nature’s power to heal our planet. It reveals how the biosphere egulates Earth’s climate and how its destruction has driven global warming.
The film highlights regenerating ecosystems like forests, fields, and wetlands, restoring the water cycle, and embracing sustainable practices like regenerative agriculture that draw CO2 from the atmosphere, cool the planet, revive freshwater systems, and create abundant food and thriving communities.
Visit Hummingbird Films for upcoming screenings.
This Week
Courses
- The climate is overheating, but nature has a built-in cooling system.
Water & Climate is a new 4-week course from Bio4Climate that will change the way you think about climate solutions. You’ll learn how water, not just carbon, regulates Earth’s temperature, and how forests, grasslands, wetlands, and animals work together to keep the planet cool.
More importantly, you’ll come away with clear, practical steps to restore water cycles and cool your community, starting in your own backyard.
♦ 4 live Zoom sessions starting July 10 (recordings included)
♦ Real-world examples, strategies, and a powerful new lens on climate
♦ Taught by climate journalist Hart Hagan
Register for Water & Climate
News and Insights
- In a forest deep in Italy’s Dolomite mountains, a multinational team of scientists recorded something extraordinary: spruce trees syncing their electrical activity, communicating with each other, just hours before a solar eclipse. Older trees responded first. To the research team, this suggests they may hold “ancient memories” and help guide younger trees, like elders anchoring a community.
The research adds a rich new layer to our understanding of the underground network of roots and mycorrhizae as a dynamic, living intelligence that responds collectively to changes in the world (and worlds) around it.
This trend underscores the broader ecological crisis, and is a big reason why we have a Featured Creature series in the first place. Every creature is an important part of some system. Birds play crucial roles in pollination, seed dispersal, and pest control. Their decline signals deeper environmental issues that also threaten human and non-human health and well-being. - A new Miami Herald investigation dives into Florida’s “climate denial bubble,” where real estate values continue to climb in flood-prone neighborhoods, even after devastating storms and King Tides. In many cases, prices actually rose after extreme flooding, driven by short-term thinking and demand that ignores mounting risk.
It’s a reminder of what’s often missing from mainstream climate conversations: the planet will endure, but the systems we (and all living things) rely on for stability, safety, and survival may not. As risks accelerate, so does the urgency to work with nature to protect what makes life livable. The most immediate tools we have are living systems that regulate water, heat, and resilience beneath, on, and above the ground.
Events and Community
- Cambridge | A day of Biodiversity
On Saturday, May 3rd, Bio4Climate, in partnership with the City of Cambridge and under the leadership of Andrew Putnam, Superintendent of Urban Forestry and Landscapes, planted our third Miyawaki forest — and our seventh forest overall. Covering 2,000 square feet, this new forest mirrors the planting density of the thriving Greene-Rose Park miniforest, marking another important milestone in our ongoing efforts to restore urban biodiversity and enhance climate resilience. We were joined by around 30 enthusiastic volunteers of all ages, whose support made the planting day a success — and for that, we are truly grateful.
The words "earth repair," "reciprocity," "meaningful connection," "stewardship," and "ecological functionality" reflect the core purpose of mini-forests. These small yet powerful ecosystems symbolize the relationships we are working to rebuild — between people, the land, and the more-than-human world. We are especially excited for students to experience this living classroom, participate in its care, and grow alongside it!
Afterwards, we joined our friends at Boston Birding and Native Plant Community Gardeners at Danehy Park for an afternoon of communal knowledge exchange and outdoor fun in celebration of Biodiversity Day.
Here are just a few of our favorite moments from the weekend!
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).
Tell nature’s climate story, the story of connection and life.
― Beck Mordini
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.