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2026 18

  1. Guess who’s back: Wildlife returning to Ecosia projects
  2. Replanting Warrior Trees on Mexico’s highest volcano
  3. A year after our €1 million pledge: a Climate Nobel Prize is more necessary than ever
  4. We’re burning a forest… to stop wildfires
  5. Cities need trees to survive the heat
  6. EUSP search results are now live in Germany
  7. You can now choose AI-free search
  8. Wildfire recovery on land that belongs to no one – but serves everyone
  9. Our AI just got even better
  10. Returning a farm to jungle by doing…nothing
  11. 250 Million Trees!
  12. The world’s most biodiverse savanna is vanishing, so we’re restoring it
  13. What do chickens have to do with native trees? Inside our Rwanda project
  14. This forest looks healthy… until you look closer
  15. Why we’re publishing our licensing deal for media
  16. How a citizen movement is making cities more heat resilient
  17. How to grow a forest without planting a single tree
  18. Hot potato: Why we saved 4000 tonnes of spuds from going to waste

2025 20

  1. Our €1M offer to create a Climate Nobel Prize
  2. Ecosia AI is here
  3. How we're protecting and restoring Brazil's forests
  4. Climate change is coming for your coffee: our trees are fighting back
  5. Growing sustainable chocolate: Our trees in Togo
  6. What if a browser could save the planet?
  7. What we’re doing with AI
  8. The internet just got better: our European search index goes live
  9. Restoring 125,000 trees in wildfire-scarred California
  10. Digital sovereignty is just #oneclickaway
  11. USAID cuts defunded Jane Goodall’s Tanzania project–we’re pledging $100k
  12. Saying goodbye to freetree
  13. Track your daily climate impact with our new counter
  14. Is planting trees always a good idea? Turns out, it isn’t.
  15. What would happen if your company switched to Ecosia?
  16. Get climate active this Earth Day (and every day)
  17. When women thrive, the planet thrives
  18. We’re losing nature’s best flood defense — can we fix that?
  19. Ecosia is now available in Firefox: make an impact with just three clicks
  20. The climate crisis made the Los Angeles fires worse — here’s how we can adapt

2024 27

  1. Why there’s reasons for climate hope in 2025
  2. Ecosia's 2024 roundup
  3. Right tree, right place: the Global Biodiversity Standard
  4. Giveaway: Win a train travel adventure with Ecosia and Omio
  5. We’re teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index
  6. No inflation on climate action
  7. 10 must knows from biodiversity science
  8. “Drill, baby, drill”: what Trump 2.0 means for the climate
  9. What's scariest this Halloween is the climate crisis
  10. From grazing land to forest in 10 years
  11. Climate change is making extreme weather more extreme
  12. Can we halt desertification in Senegal?
  13. New York Climate Week 2024: taking real climate action in the Bronx
  14. Powering change: Ecosia backs a solar future
  15. Green ventures: investing in climate innovation
  16. Farming for the future: nature’s answer to climate change
  17. The future of our trees in Uganda and Kenya
  18. Beat the heat and stay safe with weather alerts
  19. Can sport kick its big polluter habit?
  20. The UK has an opportunity to promote climate and nature
  21. What makes trees thrive in India?
  22. How do trees bring back rivers?
  23. European elections have never mattered more
  24. Designed for you: the new Ecosia Browser
  25. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 40
  26. Choose the planet, choose Ecosia: why you’re going to be asked to pick a search engine
  27. 200 million trees

2023 22

  1. Our climate impact projects
  2. From dryland to forest in just 5 years
  3. Tree-Planting Update 39
  4. We’re calling out COP28
  5. Cutting down trees… for the climate?
  6. Why am I not seeing Ecosia on Chrome anymore?
  7. Better search: what we've been working on
  8. Tree-Planting Update 38
  9. We’re committing €800,000 to fight wildfires this year
  10. Helping our partners in Morocco rebuild after the earthquake
  11. How one UK doctor helps plant thousands of trees each week
  12. Taking the heat out of wildfires by creating sustainable cooking fuel
  13. What is the Climate Majority?
  14. Climate justice in LA, Chicago, New York: introducing the Green Equity Collective
  15. Can we plant trees without plastic?
  16. This summer, choose a green festival
  17. Learning to care for ourselves, our communities and the Earth
  18. How we’re supporting urban tree equity in New York
  19. Could AI help us to tackle climate change?
  20. Tree-planting Update: Episode 37
  21. Protecting the right to wild camp in England
  22. Your trees in Argentina

2022 35

  1. When tree planting pays off (literally)
  2. Why Ecosia and other businesses are calling for “other wooded lands” to be included in the EU’s proposed regulation for deforestation-free commodities
  3. Your trees in Australia
  4. We've updated your personal tree counter
  5. Do radical protest movements actually work?
  6. Tree-planting update: Episode 36
  7. Your trees in Brazil
  8. Introducing dark mode
  9. Organize, organize, organize
  10. Your trees in Burkina Faso and Mali
  11. An update about our trees in north-west Madagascar
  12. View from the ground: what the Inflation Reduction Act means for trees
  13. Can wildfires be good?
  14. Your trees in France
  15. How wildfires are started — and how to stop them
  16. From LA to London: why we’re planting urban trees
  17. The Carbon Almanac: climate facts that lead to action
  18. It should be easy to switch search engines: 10 principles for fair choice screens
  19. Introducing freetree: our new browser extension that lets you plant trees while you shop online
  20. We’re launching our second urban tree equity project — in Chicago
  21. Ecosia's top 5 picks: climate events at Hay Literary Festival you can attend from home
  22. Tree-planting update: Episode 35
  23. Moving from grey to green: how this East London community transformed their neighborhood
  24. Our time on Earth: the importance of creativity in the fight against climate change
  25. Pass the mic to young people
  26. Plant trees when you play on Niantic’s Community Day
  27. Before and after deforestation: Neema’s climate crisis, and her solutions
  28. Our new LA project is about urban trees with social impact
  29. How to turn climate anxiety into climate action
  30. Make Ecocide a crime
  31. It’s time to power up. Ecosia invests 20 million into renewables to counter fossil fuel dependence
  32. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 34
  33. Beyond Profit with Dr. Bronner’s
  34. Bringing back forests without planting trees in Tanzania
  35. What is regenerative agriculture and can it be scaled?

2021 49

  1. How Acacia Senegal trees change the lives and roles of women in a Sudanese village
  2. Money can grow on trees
  3. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 33
  4. What agroforestry means, and why we support it
  5. 3 ways Ecosia is changing the rules of business
  6. How regenerative farming promotes climate justice
  7. Tech for the planet: Tim Schumacher on launching World Fund
  8. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 32
  9. Is democracy too slow to achieve climate justice?
  10. Ecosia on Campus: 140,000 trees and counting
  11. Do climate protests work?
  12. World Centric reinvents food containers
  13. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 31
  14. Your trees in the Philippines
  15. Why are trees so important?
  16. Thank you for fighting wildfires and restoring burnt forests!
  17. Join the #EcosiaWildfireRelief to fight fires and restore forests!
  18. Your trees in Cameroon
  19. Toilet paper company Who Gives A Crap
  20. Changing the ground rules to protect what we love: the Earth
  21. How wildlife patrols protect the world’s remaining wildlife
  22. We need to talk about endangered tree species
  23. Your trees in Nigeria
  24. Your searches plant 13,000 trees to restore U.S. fire scars
  25. Under pressure, Google abandons its pay-for-play auction screen on Android
  26. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 30
  27. Our plan to plant more trees, faster: introducing Ecosia Trees
  28. How to help the environment in a structural way
  29. Your trees in Mexico
  30. Mental Health Awareness Week: Staying connected to each other and holding onto hope
  31. Anti-food waste app Too Good to Go
  32. The carbon tax that puts money in your pocket: Q&A with Citizens’ Climate Lobby
  33. What does it take to become a climate activist?
  34. Ecosia x Insight Timer: tackle climate anxiety and help the planet!
  35. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 29
  36. Tools for a post-growth society – an interview with Imeh Ituen
  37. Why the climate movement needs rural women
  38. Google's "choice screen" restricts consumer choice and its "privacy sandbox" disrespects privacy
  39. Meet the Ecosia x Earth Uprising Microgrant Winners
  40. How to use Ecosia on your mac
  41. The search engine that plants trees: what’s Ecosia and how does it work?
  42. Would the conversation about climate change be different if it weren’t in English?
  43. This Valentine’s Day, show your planet some love
  44. How industrial agriculture created a global environmental injustice
  45. Online privacy is a right
  46. Your trees in Sudan
  47. Introducing a better internet: Ecosia is now available on Brave, the privacy browser
  48. Can Ecosia plant 1 billion trees for the Great Green Wall?
  49. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 28

2020 101

  1. 2020: The Year in Trees
  2. Why this retired farmer keeps planting trees
  3. Decolonizing the climate change conversation
  4. The Links Between Industrial Agriculture & Environmental Racism
  5. This holiday season, shop for trees
  6. How to invest in solar energy: a conversation with ecoligo
  7. Your trees in Indonesia
  8. Ecosia trees are going in the ground near NHS hospitals across the UK
  9. Why you should convince your boss to switch to Ecosia
  10. A note on our tree counter
  11. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 27
  12. Harriet Bradley from BirdLife Europe on why the EU needs to #WithdrawTheCAP
  13. Trees can't vote — but that doesn't mean they shouldn't have a voice
  14. Your voice on climate counts: revenue from all US searches goes towards Earthjustice until polls close
  15. Make Ecosia your default browser on your iPhone
  16. Can we withdraw the CAP? How the EU works
  17. How you can save the Green (New) Deals
  18. Google is anti-competitive: an open letter to the EU
  19. Vote this CAP down, save Europe’s future
  20. Your trees in the United Kingdom
  21. The Climate Crisis is a Health Crisis
  22. Meet Jamie Cox, the founder of Treecard, the debit card that plants Ecosia trees
  23. Introducing Treecard: the plan to plant trees with your everyday payments
  24. Your trees in Côte d'Ivoire
  25. How regenerative agriculture can curb climate change
  26. You can now apply to the Ecosia x Earth Uprising Microgrants Fund
  27. Your Trees in Canada
  28. Trees against hunger in Senegal
  29. The world’s largest wetland is on fire: how can we save the Pantanal?
  30. Your trees in Senegal
  31. Your trees in Ethiopia
  32. Does carbon offsetting work? Only if you get it right.
  33. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 26
  34. Your trees in Uganda
  35. Why privacy-focused search engines matter to browser users
  36. Supporting new engineering talent with Ecosia Summer of Code
  37. Brazil's forests are on fire again. Here's how you can help
  38. The radio show that plants trees
  39. The Amazon fires are back and worse than ever, and it’s not just climate change that's to blame
  40. Ecosia & Earth Uprising join forces to amplify the work of youth activists
  41. Heat wave 2020: can Europe’s forests survive it?
  42. How Black, Indigenous, and People of Color are reclaiming the tech industry
  43. Your trees in Rwanda
  44. Water security is climate justice. How your trees in Kenya help
  45. What’s intersectional environmentalism? A conversation with Aditi Mayer
  46. Ecosia users have planted 100 million trees: a milestone and a beginning!
  47. Diversity within environmentalism is not new, it’s just been erased
  48. Why Ecosia loves solar
  49. Why forward-thinking organizations are switching to Ecosia to plant change
  50. For Social Entrepreneurs: Lessons Learned in Resilience from Ecosia’s Founder
  51. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 25 [Bonus!]
  52. Forests are disappearing. We need to revive the forest within us: a movie
  53. Your trees in Bolivia
  54. Your trees in the United States
  55. How Ecosia protects your privacy online
  56. Improving access to nature for all is vital for our post COVID-19 collective health and wellbeing
  57. Black Lives Matter
  58. How a son is teaching ecological farming to his father
  59. This farmer saves rivers by planting trees
  60. Here’s how you can plant trees for NHS hospitals
  61. A botanical adventure
  62. COVID-19 is tearing apart Google’s competitors - here's what we must do to combat this
  63. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 24
  64. What if social entrepreneurship became business as usual?
  65. Ecosia on Campus: Digital activists in the time of COVID-19
  66. The pandemic lays bare just how futile conscious consumerism is
  67. Can Australia survive climate change? Can democracy?
  68. Will COVID-19 make the climate crisis worse?
  69. Wangari Maathai’s reforestation revolution (feat. your trees!)
  70. How to plant a tree
  71. Reforestation in the time of COVID-19
  72. The importance of forests and how we can protect them
  73. How to help the environment without donating money
  74. Ecosia is now a default search engine option in Chrome!
  75. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 23
  76. Supporting Summer of Code participants to make open source more diverse
  77. Three new reforestation projects in Tanzania
  78. Why you can't choose Ecosia on your new Android phone
  79. Your trees in Colombia
  80. Meet the young women fighting for climate justice
  81. Ecosia on Campus: Universities are turning their searches into trees
  82. Your trees in Peru
  83. An Ecosia developer visits our reforestation project in Brazil
  84. Can technology solve climate change?
  85. Your trees in Nicaragua
  86. 1000 trees in one day, or how two women are changing the rules of farming
  87. Is the trillion trees campaign good news?
  88. Your trees in Haiti
  89. If you haven’t heard of Vanessa Nakate, read this.
  90. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 22
  91. Your trees in India
  92. Your trees in Kenya
  93. You did it. Ecosia searches will plant 26,446 trees in Australia!
  94. Your trees in Madagascar
  95. Your trees in Morocco
  96. Australia is still on fire: how your searches will help
  97. On Thursday, all searches will plant trees in Australia
  98. The people who plant your trees react to your messages
  99. Your trees in Malawi
  100. Facing the flames
  101. Your trees in Tanzania

2019 73

  1. 2020, the year of the forest
  2. How to talk to your family about climate change
  3. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 21
  4. Is Ecosia legit? 10 questions for Ecosia’s Founder and CEO
  5. Ecosia’s gift guide for not shopping this Christmas
  6. Ecosia turns 10
  7. On November 29th 2019 Fridays for Future is calling for a global climate strike. This is why it's important to join global climate strikes - again and again.
  8. Is everyone getting tree planting wrong? Here’s how to get it right!
  9. The circular economy: is fast going out of fashion?
  10. Ecosia on Campus: Meet the students planting 100k trees
  11. 20 firms are behind a third of all carbon emissions. They're now highlighted on Ecosia.
  12. Your trees in Spain
  13. Our project in the Usambara Mountains: an update
  14. How to stay sane in the age of climate change
  15. How one conversation started a silent revolution
  16. Good news for the planet: we'll plant more trees than ever
  17. Protecting Kenya's rivers with trees
  18. How to cope with climate anxiety
  19. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 20
  20. How to be a climate rebel: Ecosia at Extinction Rebellion
  21. After the Amazon Fires: who protects the world's forests?
  22. Ecosia joins the Global Climate Strike: in pictures
  23. Introducing Green Search: make better decisions
  24. Join Ecosia on September 20 for the global climate strike!
  25. 2+1 million trees for Brazil
  26. Why is Brazil's Amazon Forest burning up?
  27. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 19
  28. Ecosia takes radical steps to support climate activism
  29. Our tree counter just got faster
  30. Why we're saying no to Google
  31. Ecosia on Campus: students worldwide are campaigning to plant trees
  32. How to travel more sustainably
  33. How to read a landscape (and why it’s important to learn how to do so)
  34. The tree-planters behind your searches in Brazil
  35. Do Ecosia’s trees survive?
  36. One million trees for Brazil
  37. Travel diary: returning to Ethiopia
  38. Scientific proof that reforestation is the top climate change solution
  39. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 18
  40. Top 10 books about the climate: Ecosia's selection
  41. Indigenous groups in Brazil: the threat of Bolsonaro
  42. 10 ways to party sustainably this festival season
  43. How trees reduce air pollution
  44. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 17
  45. Regenerative agriculture: why Ecosia decided to support a permaculture farm in France
  46. 25,000 trees for Fridays for Future!
  47. European elections: why they’re important for the climate
  48. Why trees are the solution to palm oil: a documentary
  49. The Ecosia team's favorite documentaries
  50. We're facing a biodiversity crisis, according to landmark UN study
  51. Open-source software can improve diversity in tech
  52. How trees brought back Senegal’s national dish: with recipe
  53. Why is palm oil bad for the environment?
  54. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 16
  55. Our project in Senegal
  56. “Everything needs to change”: meet Generation Climate
  57. Where, why and how does Ecosia plant trees?
  58. Deforestation in Peru: a slippery slope
  59. The women behind our projects
  60. Why we plant fruit and nut trees along a river in Ghana: Makada’s story
  61. The kids are alright: Ecosia joins climate strike
  62. Sounds from our project in Andalusia, Spain
  63. How your searches brought a desert back to life
  64. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 15
  65. In December, we spent €533,080 on trees
  66. 50! Million! Trees!
  67. 50 reasons you should use Ecosia
  68. We’re days away from 50 million trees!
  69. Rural millennials: the new generation of farmers
  70. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 14
  71. In November, we spent €440,925 on trees
  72. The women’s collective that fights poverty with baobab trees
  73. How to bring forests back without planting trees

2018 41

  1. The doable New Year's resolution idea that saves the planet
  2. Tree-planters by day, firefighters by night
  3. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 13
  4. Trees, community and how Peru’s farmers fight deforestation
  5. News from Brazil: Your trees, Bolsonaro and how you can help
  6. Soil is the foundation to a healthy climate
  7. After the California wildfires, doing nothing isn't an option
  8. Race against desertification: your searches in Spain
  9. 5 things we learnt at Web Summit
  10. Undermining women undermines the climate
  11. Our first mini-documentary: Uganda's New Forests
  12. Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia
  13. 40 million more trees in the world!
  14. Agriculture is broken, but we can fix it
  15. RWE won’t back down. Neither will we! #Hambibleibt
  16. Ecosia offers RWE €1,000,000 for Hambach Forest
  17. Tens of thousands march to save the Hambach Forest
  18. From depleted desert to fertile forest
  19. Brazil’s Atlantic Forest: A lesson for the Amazon
  20. Your trees in Ghana
  21. The people we meet
  22. Ecosia to attend Hambach Forest demo
  23. Ecosia users start their own tree-planting movement
  24. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 11
  25. #CiaoRWE – Take a stand for Hambach Forest!
  26. Ecosia at the Climate March
  27. No matter what you search for…
  28. The state of our forests
  29. Real superheroes: the activists who risk their lives to defend the Earth
  30. Burkina Faso: a beginning in pictures
  31. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 10
  32. Moses used to produce charcoal. Now he's saving chimps by planting trees.
  33. Introducing the Ecosia podcast!
  34. Your trees have changed a coffee farmer's life — and the lives of her children
  35. 30 million Ecosia trees!
  36. The nurse who heals forests in Uganda
  37. Ecosia celebrates one year with Vivaldi
  38. How trees provide clean water for farmers like Joram
  39. The landless farmer who saved his environment
  40. Ecosia is now an official search option in Firefox Germany!
  41. Jane Goodall on why there is still hope

2017 15

  1. Plant trees? There's an app for that
  2. Your searches in Ethiopia
  3. Tree-Planting Update: Episode 4
  4. How farmers in Peru are protecting the Amazon
  5. Become a #TreeHero!
  6. Rebirth of a vital ecosystem
  7. The fruits of our labor
  8. Lemurs need homes, too
  9. 4 ways trees lift people out of poverty
  10. Why does Ecosia plant trees?
  11. A better deal for Indonesia
  12. How tree planting empowers women
  13. How Ecosia decides where to plant trees
  14. Reforesting the world's oldest island
  15. What we achieved in 2016

2016 6

  1. En route to Madagascar
  2. Burkina Faso, one year on
  3. Ecosia has reached 5 million planted trees
  4. Ready to grow some more?
  5. We're now in Peru and Madagascar
  6. 4 million trees planted

2015 18

  1. What kind of trees do we plant?
  2. 2015 was our most impactful year yet
  3. 3 million trees planted
  4. Ecosia users are changing the world of business
  5. What do communities think of Ecosia’s tree-planting program?
  6. Headquarters 2.0
  7. Ecosia joins the People's Climate March
  8. How we plant trees in Burkina Faso, rain or shine
  9. These are your first trees in Burkina Faso
  10. Soil is important. Why do we treat it like dirt?
  11. Why do social entrepreneurs have flat heads?
  12. Ecosia is Best for the World
  13. We’re already at 2 million trees!
  14. Five nature films you need to watch
  15. Our first-ever business report
  16. New project, more trees
  17. Lilengo 3 years later: how planting trees helped an entire town
  18. We’ve planted a million trees – and this is how we’ll reach one billion

2014 9

  1. Growing together with Ethicle
  2. Hitting the streets of Berlin
  3. Your searches, secured
  4. The happiness experiment
  5. The trees for the forest
  6. Search and you shall receive
  7. Come on in
  8. Ecosia is now a B Corp
  9. A new tree every 60 seconds

2013 2

  1. Fall cleaning: Forestle, Znout and Treely discontinued
  2. What is Ecosia?

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