Ecology & Regeneration
Rewilding, regenerative agriculture, oceans, forests — nature reclaiming its rights.
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Rights of Nature: When Rivers Become Legal Persons
Since 2008, a quiet legal revolution has been transforming our relationship to the natural world. From rivers to forests, dozens of countries now recognise entire ecosystems' right to exist, to be protected — and to argue their case before a court.
Read article →Cities That Are Replanting Their Forests: The Data-Backed Story
Medellín lowered its temperature by 2°C in three years. Paris has planted 129,000 trees since 2020. A 2026 meta-analysis shows that urban forests already cool 914 million people — with important nuances about what they can and cannot do.
Read article →Regenerative Agriculture: What the Data Proves (and What It Doesn't Yet)
Regenerative agriculture is not an ideological niche — it's a documented shift in business model. 70% higher profitability than conventional farms (PeerJ 2018), 1.22 t C/ha/yr sequestered (Frontiers 2024). With the honest obstacles.
Read article →The Ocean is Regenerating: The Numbers Nobody Cites
Inside fully protected marine reserves, fish biomass is 670% higher than in unprotected areas. Off California, the return of sea otters increased carbon storage in kelp forests by 5.3%. The ocean recovers — fast, sometimes spectacularly — when given the chance.
Read article →Rewilding Europe: How the Continent Is Restoring Its Ecosystems
Rewilding Europe is reshaping landscapes across the continent. From Knepp to the Carpathians, discover how the Nature Restoration Law (2024) and grassroots projects are bringing biodiversity back.
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Briefs
Loos-en-Gohelle: a former mining town covers 90% of its public energy needs from solar
A mining town in Pas-de-Calais marked by unemployment and slag heaps, Loos-en-Gohelle installed 2,600 m² of solar panels on its municipal buildings. Since 2021, these installations cover 90% of public energy needs and generate €50,000 of energy per year.
Read →Agroforestry sequesters 1.22 tonnes of carbon per hectare per year
A study published in 2024 in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems demonstrates that seven agroecological practices all increase carbon sequestration in soils and vegetation — with agroforestry leading at 1.22 t C/ha/yr.
Read →Yellowstone: wolves multiplied riparian forest volume fifteenfold
A study published in 2025 in Global Ecology and Conservation measures the effect of wolf reintroduction at Yellowstone: the volume of riparian willow crowns increased by 1,500% between 2001 and 2020. The trophic cascade is one of the strongest ever documented.
Read →Sea otters and kelp: a keystone species restoring underwater forests and storing carbon
In central California, the return of sea otters increased kelp forest cover by 57.6% and raised the carbon storage of these ecosystems by 5.3%. A study published in PLOS Climate in 2024 documents this cascade mechanism — one animal, two climate benefits.
Read →Knepp Estate: 20 years of rewilding, +916% breeding birds
In twenty years, an exhausted agricultural estate in Sussex has become one of the UK's greatest biodiversity hotspots. The January 2026 assessment is striking: +916% breeding birds, +871% dragonflies, 62 nightingale males where there were only 9.
Read →Beavers are back in England
In March 2025, Eurasian beavers were officially released into the wild in England for the first time in centuries. This small mammal transforms wetlands far better than any civil engineering project.
Read →Europe adopts a binding law to restore nature
In July 2024, the European Nature Restoration Regulation came into force — a world first. For the first time, a major economic area has legally committed to repairing the ecosystems it has degraded: 20% of land, 25,000 km of rivers, 3 billion trees.
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