Sarah Sax

Brooklyn-based journalist Sarah Sax covers climate change, the environment, and land rights in the Americas.

Articles by Sarah Sax

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First Nations Are On the Cusp of a Big Marine Conservation Win in Canada—and They Have Even Bigger Plans

December 02, 2024 — Indigenous communities in Ontario are leading a campaign to protect critical portions of a vast inland sea that people, migratory birds, and other wildlife all rely upon. Can they conserve the coastline and carbon-storing peatlands, too?

Boreal Forests

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Conservation Groups Retool Their Missions to Address the Affordable Housing Crisis

March 22, 2024 — Protecting green space can drive up local property costs, so land trusts are forming new partnerships to create homes for people and wildlife.

Field Notes

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The Cerrado, the World’s Most Biodiverse Tropical Savannah, Is in Peril

July 10, 2023 — A young bird expert is among the scientists racing to document Brazil's ancient and understudied biome—while simultaneously raising the alarm about what’s being lost.

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