The philanthropist known for donating to historically Black colleges and nonprofits working on climate change offered the news by updating an October blog post.

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Born into an aristocratic British family, he turned his empathy and knowledge of the world’s largest land mammals to the cause of saving them from poachers.

Born into an aristocratic British family, he turned his knowledge of the world’s largest land mammals to the cause of saving them from poachers.

Although nature is sometimes very fragile, decades of conservation rhetoric have perhaps overstated that fragility.

Farmers in Northwest China confront their drying landscape by planting trees as coal burns relentlessly nearby. This film tells a human story behind an element from the periodic table: carbon.

Brazilian farmers are lobbying to roll back deforestation restrictions in order to sell more soybeans to the huge Chinese market.