While Villages Run Dry and the Desert Advances, Women in Morocco Climb the Mountains To Catch Fog and Turn It Into Drinking Water
Four hours a day, women carried 50-pound water barrels on their heads. Now giant nets on a...
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Why China’s decades-long ambition to green the desert could run dry
At the edge of China’s Taklamakan Desert, rows of trees are slowly edging into one of the...
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China Tried to Block the Gobi Desert with Millions of Trees, Only to Turn a “Biological Void” Into Carbon-Sink Territory
A desert that has swallowed roads and farms for decades just got boxed in by a 3,046-kilometre...
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Trees Seen Emitting a Ghostly Light During a Thunderstorm For The First Time
Coronae glow on the tips of spruce needles, induced by charged metal plates in a...
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Gender, Agriculture, and Climate Change
Context: The discussion around gender, agriculture, and climate change is in focus,...
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China has planted so many trees around the Taklamakan Desert that it’s turned this ‘biological void’ into a carbon sink
Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world’s largest and...
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It rained, crops kept growing, and yet the Maya still left. The unexpected twist that calls the classic explanation of their collapse into question
For decades, one explanation has dominated the story of the...
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Farmers in Brazil are restoring biodiversity to grow resilient crops
National Geographic photographer Rena Effendi visited Brazil to document how one family...
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How Japanese tiny forests are sweeping Scotland
School children visit Queen Margaret University’s wee forest (Credit: Jocelyn Timperley)...
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Indian agriculture can’t thrive without women farmers
Kavitha Kuruganti and Ireena Vittal discuss why women farmers’ labour, knowledge, and...
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National Honey Bee Day 2025: Why pollinators matter
Picture your morning without coffee, your lunch without apples, your snacks without...
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Indoor or Outdoor: The Best Place for Your Rubber Plant
As a versatile and low-maintenance plant, the rubber plant (Ficus elastica) can thrive both...
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