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Amid a multitude of trails with trees that reach dozens of feet overhead, conservationists with Casa del Agua lead tours and tell stories about the forests planted over three decades.

Conservationists focus on community reforestation efforts to save Mexico’s wetlands

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Mexico’s Centla wetlands are part of an ecological reserve in the southeastern Tabasco state that has been impacted by deforestation, cattle grazing and man-made fires. In recent decades, conservationists with Casa del Agua have promoted reforestation and community education to save the wetlands.

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Pfizer announces ‘highly effective’ pill to combat COVID

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An image of a professional tree planter hard at work in British Colombia.

Professional tree planting: ‘It’s a combination between industrial labor and high-intensity sport’

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In this March 26, 2020, file photo, a boy wears a mask as a preventative measure against the spread of the coronavirus, as he navigates floodwaters mixed with garbage following heavy rains, in the Kibera area of Nairobi, Kenya.

‘Connecting with God by caring for the environment’: Franciscan monk in Kenya shares Christmas message

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Adults and children swim in water near a large, white building in the background and birds flying overhead

In Karachi, planting dense urban forests could save the city from extreme heat

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The Nature Conservancy hopes to plant perhaps 100,000 native agave and pine trees in the forests around Monterrey, Mexico’s third-largest metro area.

Coke and Pepsi, gardening together in Mexican mountains to preserve urban water

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“If we’re not taking care of those aquifers, we will not have access to the resource. We cannot do anything if we do not have the basic input, the water.”

New research survey suggests urban trees are on the decline

Environment

Research from the U.S. Forest Service found that in 19 of 20 U.S. cities surveyed, urban trees are on the decline. The vital piece of urban infrastructure are declining an average of three percent per year.

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Planting Native Trees

There’s a new bumper stickers that says: “Trees are the Answer.” The idea is to make us all aware of how important planting trees is to the environment. But, commentator Andy Wasowski says that while the basic thought is right, the methods can be very wrong. Mr. Wasowski lives in northern New Mexico surrounded by […]

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FEIGNING GREEN

For politicans who want to seem green, tree planting is an easy pasttime. But those politically inspired projects; don’t impress commentator, Robert Leo Heilman.

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Tree Planting for Carbon Raises Questions

More than a decade ago nations agreed that richer countries should pay poorer countries for “clean development” that reduces carbon emissions. The first tree carbon project in Africa under this agreement is now underway. But the trees aren’t native, and t