66°North team heads out to plant the first 100 of 11,000 trees in an effort to create a small woodland in a largely treeless country. Iceland, a country known for its lunar-like landscape, has just 1% ...
"The Country since leaving the Colorado has been a dry rocky sandy Barren desert." – Jedediah Smith, 1826. Early western explorers who ventured into the Mojave Desert, like Jedediah Smith, often ...
SANTO DOMINGO, Ecuador — A Sarasota botanist has discovered a new plant species in a region previously thought to be completely extinct of unique plant life. While on a 2022 research expedition in ...
Hikmet Kaya stands before rolling green hills now thick with forest, holding a faded photograph of the same landscape as it appeared decades earlier. In the old image, the land is bare, eroded and ...
A once barren landscape in Turkey has become a vast forest after decades of effort. Hikmet Kaya helped plant 30 million trees there. How did this quiet mission transform thousands of acres?