Conservation International

Apple is working to restore African grasslands to curb climate change (and save the elephants)

It’s the company’s latest push to help conservation organizations use nature itself to fight climate change.

This environmental nonprofit just started a venture fund to put $200 million into conservation businesses

“Conservation is really about investing in businesses and people growing economies, providing livelihoods like any other sector—but typically that’s not the way that conservation has been positioned.”

Inside Apple’s plan to protect a 27,000-acre forest in Colombia

To help achieve its emission-reduction goals, Apple is putting money into one of the best carbon-removal devices on earth: mangrove forests.

These indigenous women are recording videos to document their traditional knowledge before it disappears

As new people move in and generations leave, a Peru community is making sure knowledge about things like medicinal plants and edible fruits will survive.

Companies are vastly underestimating how badly they’ll be hurt by climate change

Corporate projections of the changes to the bottom line focus mostly on their own services, but don’t wrestle with the fact that whole supply chains and economies could be disrupted.

The Largest Ever Tropical Reforestation Is Planting 73 Million Trees

The project in the Brazilian Amazon is using a new technique for planting trees that results in more, stronger plants–and hopes to cover 70,000 acres in new forests.

This Site Calculates Your Carbon Footprint, Then Helps You Offset It

The new carbon calculator from Conservation International gives you a sense of what your impact is, so you can work on making it smaller. But the real changes need to be systemic, not personal.

Lee Pace Is An Angry Mountain For Conservation International

The Guardians of the Galaxy, The Hobbit, and Halt and Catch Fire actor lends his voice to long-running PSA campaign.

Anna Kendrick’s Jedi Mind Trick, The Oatmeal Goes Running: Top 5 Ads Of The Week

Adidas breaks a sweat with inspiring girls, Liam Neeson is cool as ice, and Red Bull gets trippy with BMX.

Harrison Ford Gets Mad, Sarah Silverman Gets A Penis, And A 12-Year-Old Norwegian Gets Married: The Top 5 Ads Of The Week

The BBC gets pop stars to cover the Beach Boys, some idiots Rock the Vote, Harrison Ford is the ocean, a child bride in Norway gets attention for a global issue, and Sarah Silverman makes a trade for equal pay.

Nature Is Speaking Through Harrison Ford, Julia Roberts, And Kevin Spacey, And She Is Pissed

This new Conservation International campaign changes the typical tone to say nature doesn’t need us, but we really need nature.

Giving The Ocean A Checkup By Measuring Its Health

The world’s oceans are a vast and complicated–but vital–part of the planet. Scientists are now working on a way to give us a simple indication of how healthy they are. The answer, sadly, may be: not so good.

Private Sector Solicited by New World Bank Conservation Fund

Prospects for the World’s Endangered Species Rest on Peace and Harmony of the Human Species

Sustainable Excellence: The Must-Read Book

Supersizing McDonald’s Eco-Cred

An insider’s bold plan to supersize the eco-cred of McDonald’s. Can it become the Wal-Mart of fast food?