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Palmyra is a conservation hope spot. Located far out in the Pacific, a thousand miles from the nearest city in Hawaiʻi, this coral atoll is one of the few island environments that is both spectacularly intact and also relatively accessible with facilities to support scientific research.

Nature is health, and it’s time we treated it that way. By protecting, restoring and enhancing nature, we can support thriving communities and economies across the U.S. Learn more about the benefits of nature in our Nature’s Dividends report: https://nature.ly/4vHCxFH 🎨 Mikhaila Markham/TNC

A pink background infographic with a large tree on the right, and a person swinging on a swing hanging from it. Text at the top reads: “People who have more access to green space also have lower rates of illness and disease.” Below, it lists health outcomes linked to living in areas with 90% green space versus 10% green space: cancer (-5%), heart disease (-10%), stroke (-15%), upper respiratory infection (-20%), diabetes (-25%), depression (-30%), and anxiety (-35%). Source: Maas et al., “Morbidity Is Related to a Green Living Environment.”

"Without elms, our floodplains are incomplete. Bringing back American elm is one way we can fortify these critical natural systems that provide us with so much." Learn how survivor trees may show us the way to recovering from Dutch elm disease.

American Elm: Restoring the Iconic Tree for Healthy Floodplains

Before disease brought them down, American elms had a firm place on streets and floodplains. Breeding survivor trees may show the way for restoring them.

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We’ve entered an era of long-term drought, and that’s affecting dry forests in the Western U.S. in a lot of ways. Read our latest story on how TNC and partners are helping dry forest ecosystems adapt to drought. https://nature.ly/4aOn27a Illustration created by Erica Simek Sloniker/TNC

Diagram illustrating the effects of long-term drought on western dry forests. It features a labeled, numbered list with corresponding visuals: 1) heat pulling moisture from trees and soil, 2) less snowpack, 3) landslides after extreme weather, 4) large-scale tree mortality, 5) disease and poor tree health, 6) lower river flows, 7) extended fire season.

Protecting bats isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s also, as it happens, the cheap thing to do. Saving bats is just… very good economics. Need more convincing? Here are 6 more reasons protecting nature is the smartest investment we can make: https://nature.ly/4ga9HcU 🎨 Mikhaila Markham/TNC

A comic strip featuring a bat and the night sky. In the first panel, the bat flies at dusk, thinking, "Midnight snack or was that lunch?" The second panel shows silhouettes sitting with a musical note and the bat above. The person says, "Strange... not a single mosquito all night," with a figure responding, "I know! It's magical." The third panel depicts the bat thinking, "Magic? Hah. Magic. Right." The fourth panel highlights the bat proclaiming "because of meeee!" at the onlookers who are unaware. The bottom credits The Nature Conservancy and Mikhaila Markham.