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        • Regenerating Life: A Film by John Feldman and Hummingbird FilmsExplore how biodiversity and natural ecosystems regulate climate
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        • ProgramsKeeping nature and biodiversity in the climate conversation has been the focus of our outreach and education….
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        • About UsThrough 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
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Newsfeeds

Government Scraps Construction Project After Beavers Finish The Job Themselves

Wound-dependent leg amputations to combat infections in an ant society

Restoring Nature Is Our Only Climate Solution

Richard Heinberg, Resilience

European Parliament Adopts Nature Restoration Law

Amid record-high fires across the Amazon, Brazil loses primary forests

For Hardwick’s Ridge Shinn, regenerative grazing is a key to easing environmental woes

Even cooler insights: On the power of forests to (water the Earth and) cool the planet

Mini rainforest aims to serve as reforestation blueprint

A Century of Reforestation Reduced Warming in the Eastern United States

Conservationists building beaver dams to help restore B.C.’s drying Columbia Wetlands

Majority of America’s underground water stores are drying up, study finds

We must unite our efforts to fight climate change and biodiversity loss

10 years after Haiyan, are mangroves protecting Philippine coastal areas?

Community forest governance and synergies among carbon, biodiversity and livelihoods

Sea level rise found to encourage mangrove expansion on Great Barrier Reef islands

Plants are more productive on weekends thanks to cleaner air

Soil study unearths microbe diversity discovery

Climate change is turning swaths of California’s mountains into ‘zombie forests’

Mycorrhizal type regulates trade-offs between plant and soil carbon in forests

It sounds like science fiction. But we can now sample water to find the DNA of every species living there.

California’s Giant Sequoias Are in Big Trouble

Prioritizing land to avoid species loss could reduce species extinction risk twice as efficiently

Examining the role wolves play in boreal forest dynamics as they constrain beaver movements

Let forests grow old to store huge volume of carbon – study

Maps reveal biochar’s potential for mitigating climate change

New research suggests plants might be able to absorb more CO2 from human activities than previously expected

Above- and belowground fungal biodiversity of Populus trees on a continental scale

Restoring ecosystems to boost biodiversity is an urgent priority – our ‘Eco-index’ can guide the way

EU criminalises environmental damage ‘comparable to ecocide’

Study shows surprising results around coastal restoration, mangroves and sediment

Restoration of Redonda Island in the Caribbean

New study shows ancient Europe was not all forest, half was covered in grassland

Can Seawalls Save Us From Rising Seas and Surging Storms?

Can goats and sheep stop wildfires? This shepherdess is rallying the flock

Acorn by acorn, volunteers gather seeds to help save forests

The Reappearing Forests of West Bengal

In Montana, Wild Bison Are Back, and an Entire Ecosystem Is Healing

Indonesia Says a Half Million Acres of Palm Plantations will be Turned Back into Forests

How underground fungi shape forests

Pakistan is planting lots of mangrove forests. So why are some upset?

EU agrees on biodiversity law to restore nature

New study shows surprising effects of fire in North America’s boreal forests

The Invisible Force Keeping Carbon in the Ground

Fungi Could Be Helping Old-Growth Trees Survive Climate Change – The Atlantic

Loss of plant biodiversity can reduce soil carbon sequestration in grasslands, suggests global study

How a farmer turned his fields into a wildlife sanctuary

He [David Suzuki] Warned Canada About Climate Change but Says, ‘We’ve Failed Big Time’

The Ecological Benefits of Rehoming a National Park’s Booming Bison Population

Slow solutions to fast-moving ecological crises won’t work— changing basic human behaviours must come first

Study reveals unexpected recovery times when forests are…

Tiny Biological Particles Are Influencing Cloud Formation Over The Arctic

Boreal and temperate forests now main global carbon sinks, satellite image analysis finds

Farmed rhinos will soon ‘rewild’ the African savanna

We could sequester CO2 by ‘re-greening’ arid lands, plant scientists say

‘Dark earth’ made by Amazon farmers stores carbon for centuries

Study finds human-driven mass extinction is eliminating entire branches of the tree of life

Six decades of plankton decline sparks call to protect the foundation of the marine food web

Beavers needed for wetland restoration, climate change battle

As climate change warms rivers, they are running out of breath – and so could the plants and animals they harbor


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