Sara Creech started farming to heal herself, but today, Blue Yonder Farm is a place where other veterans come to heal and connect, as well.

Every fall, Rani Henderson asks teenagers to wade up to their waists in a muddy pond so they can harvest marsh grass. "They think I'm crazy," she says.

Our communities have a lot to do with how healthy or unhealthy we are, according to a recent report by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.

Imagine summer as a kid on the islands in Lake Champlain. Freedom from school, biking through lush green farms and ripening orchards and the lake water beckoning — but for too many children in Vermont, summer is a time of hunger.

Emma Bode and Muy Lim went rock climbing in Thailand over Christmas. While they were there, they collected water samples for the nonprofit Adventure Scientists' Global Microplastics Project.

The accredited Columbia Land Trust flew a drone over a swamp restoration project and got a lot more information than it could have collected by sending its stewardship staff wading and clambering through the wet terrain.

The Rensselaer Plateau in upstate New York is getting its second community forest. What's a community forest? Well, it depends on the community.

School doesn’t have to mean being stuck inside all day doing lessons.

The U.S. Forest Service is offering a free app, called i-Tree, that measures forest cover and quantifies the services that trees provide.

The Land Trust Alliance recently launched the Chesapeake Bay Land and Water Initiative (the Initiative) in partnership with the Chesapeake Bay Funders Network to deploy an integrated and innovative approach to permanent land protection, stewardship, co

Agricultural land conservation is part of California’s strategy to reduce the impacts of climate change.

Want to know how much people are walking and biking in your state or city? Check out the new benchmarks report from the Alliance for Biking and Walking.

An easement from 1980 was put to the test in a recent conservation defense case in Connecticut.

When an uproar arose over the development of a forest with public hiking trails in Pennsylvania, the cry was, “Wasn’t that land protected?” The answer was “nope.”

Children learn to love nature by playing in it. To nurture that connection, a number of land trusts have created nature play areas within their preserves.

A weasel charmed its way to a win in accredited Mass Audubon’s sixth annual “Picture This: Your Great Outdoors” photo contest.

A new study adds up the economic benefits of visits to protected areas worldwide — and they’re pretty hefty.

The McDowell Sonoran Conservancy has one scientist on its staff, ecologist Melanie Tluczek. Yet the organization conducts extensive research on the 30,200-acre desert preserve that it helps manage north of Phoenix. How does the organization do so much research?

Teatown Lake Reservation in New York is all about connecting people with nature, but a language barrier keeps getting in the way. In some parts of its region, north of New York City, more than 40% of people speak Spanish as their first language.