🌍 Costa Rica doubled its forest cover in decades. Logging had stripped half its rainforest by the 1980s. It paid landowners to bring it back. Policies beat luck every time. Sources: World Bank, UNEP #omgfacts# #CostaRica# #Reforestation#

🎨🌳 To celebrate the end of the redemption of this historic Piet Mondrian × @Doodles drop, we've funded two new environmental projects through the ElmonX Virtual Forest, continuing our mission to connect collecting with meaningful impact. 🍳 Fuel-efficient cookstoves in Uganda, a community-based carbon avoidance project by UpEnergy, delivering clean cooking technology to low-income households across Uganda. The project avoids an estimated 350,000 tonnes of emissions per year, while improving health outcomes for women and children most affected by indoor air pollution. 🌱 200 trees funded, Zomba Reforestation, Malawi, in partnership with One Acre Fund, planting trees 95,780,706 → 95,780,905 in Ecologi's global reforestation mix, helping restore vital ecosystems in Malawi. Every release adds another piece to the forest. Thank you to our community for helping us grow it. 🌳 🔗 🔗

Every time I fly to New York, I'm struck by how many trees there are in the densely-populated areas around the city. (Coming from the West Coast, one arrives over the Garden State, and the suitability of the sobriquet is quite apparent from the air.) It feels like this degree of tree cover in highly populated areas is atypical (the environs of places like Paris, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Tokyo, etc., look very different), so I asked the LLM to investigate. It found GHSL 2020 population and ESA WorldCover 2021 10m land-cover data, and concluded that New York is in fact quite unusual. As far as I can tell, it's because of some combination of: * A very favorable climate. (Trees grow quickly without irrigation.) * Marginal farmland. (Readily outcompeted by the Midwest in the 19th century.) * Together yielding reforestation before the advent of suburbs. * And a preference for development patterns that include trees. (Japan's climate is very hospitable, but one sees far fewer trees in the populated areas around the major cities -- forest and habitation are more disjoint.)

Brazil sharply reduced deforestation through tougher enforcement. But the destruction didn't stop — it crossed the border. Bolivia's Amazon now faces a crisis. Read The Big Take:

Years of deforestation have severely impacted Comoros, leading to drying rivers & eroded soils. A UNEP & @thegef restoration project is reversing this trend by improving water access, farmland productivity, and community resilience to climate change. Read on:

The health of rainforests affects global ecosystems. Amazon struggles with deforestation. Global campaigns protect its future. Efforts in recycling promote a sustainable future. Communities drive conservation initiatives. 💰 🧢

The health of rainforests affects global ecosystems. Great Barrier Reef struggles with deforestation. Scientists lead restoration efforts. Efforts in tree planting promote a sustainable future. Global campaigns protect its future. 💦 🎉

Protecting coral reefs is vital for sustainability. Great Barrier Reef faces threats from deforestation. Global campaigns protect its future. Actions like reducing emissions drive meaningful change. Scientists lead restoration efforts. 💦 🍄

Protecting rainforests is vital for sustainability. Great Barrier Reef faces threats from deforestation. Scientists lead restoration efforts. Actions like tree planting drive meaningful change. Scientists lead restoration efforts. 🌈 💦