Nexus Media News, May 2023 For Susan Benedict, it was a dream come true when, a few years ago, she inherited 2,000 acres of Northern Appalachian woods that surrounded her parents’ home in central Pennsylvania. …

Reasons to be Cheerful, January 2023 A few years ago, Dan Probert was managing a ranch in southeast Oregon when he learned that the 12,000-acre Lightning Creek Ranch on the nearby Zumwalt Prairie was for sale. …

BBC Future, October 2022 In front of Val Little’s one-story, adobe home near downtown Tucson, in southern Arizona, a small but proud sign stands in the lawn. It reads: “This house harvests the rain.” Every couple of months, 68-year-old Little climbs up a short ladder to clear the leaves from…

Reasons to be Cheerful, August 2022 Just two decades ago, the waterfront of Miani Hor, a swampy lagoon along the Arabian Sea coastline in Pakistan’s western province of Balochistan, was no more than a barren strip of land nearly devoid of vegetation. …

POLITICO, July 2022 PAVIA, Italy — Under the scorching sun of a mid-July morning, Giovanni Daghetta walks across a dusty, barren plot of land on his rice farm in the province of Pavia, in Lombardy. In a typical year, he’d be wading through 10 centimeters of water amid lush, waist-high…

Voxeurop, June 2022 Curbing depopulation and caring for forests has both an environmental and a social value. Many of the funds allocated by the European Union for this purpose are not used, and their real impact is not measured. Meanwhile, the fires of summer 2021 in Cyprus and Spain confirmed a general trend across Mediterranean Europe. [Continue reading on Voxeurop]

RSI, June 2022 “Io non ho perso solo la mia azienda, i miei animali, il mio oliveto. Ho perso il territorio, la storia della mia famiglia”. Giorgio Zampa, agronomo, allevatore e olivicoltore nato e cresciuto a Cuglieri, un piccolo borgo rurale in provincia di Oristano, sintetizza così gli effetti del…

Voxeurop, June 2022 Sa Tanca Manna, the thousand-year-old olive tree symbol of Cuglieri, was a source of real pride for local people. Sixteen metres tall and ten metres wide, the tree was considered the progenitor of all the olive trees in this corner of northwestern Sardinia known for the quality…

Undark, May 2022 In the city of Woburn, Massachusetts, a suburb just north of Boston, a cadre of engineers and scientists in white coats inspected an orderly stack of brick-sized, gunmetal-gray steel ingots on a desk inside a neon-illuminated lab space. What they were looking at was a batch of…