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January 11, 2021

Biochar: the next carbon gamechanger

Taking Root is incredibly excited to announce the launch of biochar trials to enhance reforestation with...

December 2, 2020

Update: The impacts of Hurricane Eta & Iota

Last month, devastating impacts swept Central America as not one, but two extreme hurricanes hit the...

November 4, 2020

Webinar: Automating forest carbon reporting for smallholder farmers

Please note that this article contains mention of FARM-TRACE, the previous name for Taking Root’s technology...

October 1, 2020

10 things you probably didn’t know about tropical trees

Please note that this article contains mention of FARM-TRACE, the previous name for Taking Root’s technology...

August 21, 2020

Forest carbon, measuring what we cannot see

Please note that this article contains mention of FARM-TRACE, the previous name for Taking Root’s technology...

March 20, 2020

Can we tackle the climate crisis and COVID-19 at the same time?

For the first time in history the world is facing multiple, interconnected global crises. People have...

March 6, 2020

Planting one trillion trees sounds great, but how do we do it?

2019 will go down in history as the year the world woke up to climate crisis....

November 5, 2019

The fallacy of permanence: what energy projects can learn from natural climate solutions

“The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to...

September 25, 2019

Legendary rock star, Bryan Adams, plants with Taking Root

The Taking Root team became Bryan Adams’ number one fan after the Canadian singer songwriter teamed...

September 25, 2019

JOIN US – STRIKE FOR THE CLIMATE

“How Dare you?” Greta Thunburg asked of the UN’s Climate Action Summit taking place this week....

September 9, 2019

Tackling the climate crisis: does carbon pricing even work?

I recently participated on a recorded debate for Climate One podcast with other environmentalists about the...

July 9, 2019

Going organic: mission impossible for smallholder farmers?

Yelsin wakes up at 5 in the morning as the sun begins to rise over the...