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Landmark ICJ climate change hearing concludes; opinion expected in 2025

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Dec 2024

Water returns to Amazon rivers amid historic drought

Shanna Hanbury 12 Dec 2024
Banner image of four storms over the Western Pacific Ocean in November 2024, by NASA Earth Observatory via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Philippines’ ‘extraordinary’ typhoon season was climate-fueled: Scientists

Kristine Sabillo 12 Dec 2024
Banner image of a Palau nautilus, courtesy of the Ocean Exploration Trust.

Research vessel E/V Nautilus spots multiple nautiluses for the first time

Kristine Sabillo 12 Dec 2024

Spain adopts paid ‘climate leave’ policy following deadly floods

Shanna Hanbury 10 Dec 2024

Wisdom the 74-year-old albatross lays an egg with new mate

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Dec 2024

Wildlife and humans face shared health risks from plastic pollution

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2024

Camera traps, drones meant for wildlife can ‘spy’ on women: Study

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Nov 2024
Elephants move across the African savannah. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

‘Old’ animals offer wisdom and stability, need protection: Study

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Nov 2024
A woman pulls a large bag filled with plastic in a landfill in Bangladesh.

Biden administration doesn’t support a cap on plastic production

Bobby Bascomb 22 Nov 2024

One of the tiniest frogs ever is discovered in Brazil, defying size limits

Shanna Hanbury 22 Nov 2024
A slender-billed curlew illustration by Elizabeth Gould & Edward Lear via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Slender-billed curlew, a bird last photographed in 1995, is likely extinct

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Nov 2024

Push for traceability of critical minerals gains traction at COP29

David Akana 20 Nov 2024

Young climate advocates against carbon markets at COP29

David Akana 20 Nov 2024

Biden tours Amazon Rainforest, pledges funding in advance of Trump

Shanna Hanbury 19 Nov 2024

Growing fossil fuel presence at COP concerns many

David Akana 15 Nov 2024

Brazil to adopt full beef traceability by 2032 amid China, EU pressure

Shanna Hanbury 15 Nov 2024

EU delays and weakens anti-deforestation law, adding ‘no-risk’ loophole

Shanna Hanbury 14 Nov 2024

African Development Bank chief calls for ‘green-rich’ continent to also be ‘cash-rich’

David Akana 14 Nov 2024

‘We are not asking for handouts,’ Rwandan President Kagame says at COP29

David Akana 13 Nov 2024

African leaders at COP29 demand funding without further debt

David Akana 12 Nov 2024

Brazil police identify fish trader behind Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira killings

Shanna Hanbury 12 Nov 2024
African elephants in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

African elephants declining — but some areas show promise

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Nov 2024

Wildfires burn record 97% of key biodiversity area in Brazil’s Cerrado

Shanna Hanbury 11 Nov 2024

At COP29, US envoy upbeat despite looming climate policy changes

David Akana 11 Nov 2024

Brazil renews plan to restore degraded land half the size of the UK

Shanna Hanbury 7 Nov 2024

African women’s assembly unites for climate justice

Fanta Mabo 6 Nov 2024
Banner image of bats in a Malaysian limestone cave. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Mountain highland bats lack data, face climate threats: Study

Kristine Sabillo 6 Nov 2024

Export of unprocessed logs threatens DRC’s tropical forests: Report

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Nov 2024

Exposure to slow-moving landslides increases with migration: Study 

Angana Chakrabarti 4 Nov 2024

$100k prize awarded in honor of ‘father of biodiversity’ Thomas Lovejoy

Mongabay.com 1 Nov 2024

Karachi expected to receive 2.3 million climate migrants by 2050: Report

Waqas Alam Angaria 1 Nov 2024

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