Jennifer Schmitt, program director and lead scientist for the Institute on the Environment’s NorthStar Initiative for Sustainable Enterprise, has no…
What makes a park popular? And how many people are using it? City planners and park managers traditionally have had…
In the past two decades, water funds, mechanisms through which downstream users invest in upstream conservation, have spread throughout the…
Clean water is essential for ensuring public health, creating recreation opportunities and sustaining economic development. To this day, however, the…
Some 800 million people around the world depend on livestock that graze on natural vegetation for their livelihoods and food…
Adapted from a news release by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Contact: Robert Spaull, media@ipbes.net. Plentiful…
Did you know that if you buy a lottery ticket in Minnesota, a portion of the proceeds goes to a…
International initiatives to promote landscape restoration such as the Bonn Challenge have inspired countries around the world to assess their…
Across the country, public- and private-sector stakeholders have set ambitious goals for reducing energy emissions and investing in renewables. New…
I grew up in a dense urban area in California, with minimal exposure to the outdoors, where neighborhood parks were…