Fish swim among thousands of newly planted mangroves on Egypt’s Red Sea coast, as part of a program to boost biodiversity, protect coastlines, and combat climate change and its consequences. After decades of destruction, the mangroves were reduced to fragmented patches totaling 500 hectares (1,200 acres), the size of a few hundred football fields. The...Read More

What are nature-based solutions? Nature-based solutions are actions that protect, sustainably manage, or restore natural ecosystems in order to effectively and adaptively address societal challenges such as climate change, human health, food and water security, and disaster risk reduction while also providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits. Flooding in coastal areas, for example, is a...Read More