News and Insights
Plankton Plays a Bigger Role in Climate Stability Than Initially Thought
A new citizen-science survey of the Atlantic Ocean is revealing that the ocean’s living surface layer, produced by plankton, plays a decisive role in regulating water vapor, cloud formation, and climate stability.
Volunteer Efforts Save Scottish Rainforest
What began as a one-year project by retired teachers, marine biologists, and young families has turned into a four-year experience combing remote Scottish hillsides to collect 11 million seeds that have now grown into nearly 8 million native trees.
Community / Events
Music as Climate Inspiration
This week’s screening of Thinking Like Water, Country Roads City Roads included the lovely “Sing Back the River” by Petey Mesquietey. The song is both a tribute to the beauty of the rich nature around the Santa Cruz River in Arizona and a lament for what has been lost now that the River is mostly dry and the banks devoid of life.
Guest speaker Brad Lancaster shares his curated playlist that motivates and inspires his work.
Session 2 of Bio4Climate Mini-Conference Series: Forests: Past, Present, Future
Saturday, July 18, 2026 | 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET
Free and open to all
Forests have shaped human civilization for thousands of years and they are essential to the future we must now build.
At just nine years old, Felix Finkbeiner planted his first tree and helped spark what became Plant-for-the-Planet, a global youth movement for forest restoration, climate justice, and ecosystem protection.
Join us for Forests: Past, Present, Future, a Bio4Climate Mini-Conference conversation that brings together youth-led climate action and deep forest history. John Perlin, author of Forest Journey: The Story of Wood and Civilization, will show how forests have sustained civilizations and how their destruction has contributed to ecological and social decline. Felix Finkbeiner will share how young people around the world are transforming concern into restoration.
Together, they offer a powerful multigenerational perspective: to protect the future, we must learn from the past, restore what has been damaged, and support the young leaders already working to regenerate the living systems that sustain us.
Miniforest Summit Registration Is Open
Have you registered for the 2026 Northeast Miniforest yet?
There is so much to choose from including: a documentary film screening, an in-person tour of four Massachusetts miniforests, and two virtual half-days with more than 20 speakers and panelists. Don’t miss our amazing keynote speakers.
Mio Urata, a Miyawaki forester who trained directly under Dr. Miyawaki and has more than two decades of restoration experience in Japan. Urata recently translated Hannah Lewis’s Mini-Forest Revolution into Japanese, helping strengthen connections across the international miniforest community.
Day two keynote speaker, Ethan Tapper, is an internationally recognized forester, ecologist, educator, and bestselling author of How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World. Here is a sample of his dynamic story telling.
The Summit creates space to share lessons learned, explore emerging questions, and strengthen relationships across a growing movement of people working to bring miniforests to life.
Tom Wallace Lyons: A Living Legacy
At Bio4Climate, our work grows from relationships with the land, with communities, and with people who believe in restoring the living world around us. Our new blog post, A Living Legacy: The Lyons Family, Restoration, and the Work Ahead, shares the story of Tom Wallace Lyons and the lasting impact of his family’s generosity, care, and commitment. Support from people like Tom is what makes our work in the field possible, helping us plant, restore, educate, and build hope for future generations. We are deeply grateful for the people who walk alongside us in this work and help turn restoration into a living legacy.
