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Solar panels power pumps in Sudan. Image © UNDP Sudan/Muhanad Sameer via Flickr.

Middle East conflict exposes Africa’s fossil fuel risks & the case for clean energy

David Akana 10 Mar 2026
An adult kākāpō named Alice and her chick Rupi. Image courtesy of Jake Osborne/New Zealand Department of Conservation.

Critically endangered kākāpō parrot has standout breeding season

Shanna Hanbury 9 Mar 2026

Thailand tightens embrace of fossil fuels amid Middle East conflict

Naina Rao 9 Mar 2026

Climate change is messing with tropical plants’ flowering times, study shows

David Brown 5 Mar 2026
Shark fins seized during the police raid. Image courtesy of Brazilian Federal Police.

Brazilian police seize more than 1.5 metric tons of shark fins

Shanna Hanbury, Karla Mendes 3 Mar 2026
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World’s smallest possum may live beyond its known range in Australia

Megan Strauss 2 Mar 2026

Lawsuit targets TotalEnergies over fossil fuel expansion and Paris Agreement goals

Elodie Toto 2 Mar 2026

Online ads reveal scale — and gaps — in amphibian pet trade into US

David Brown 27 Feb 2026
A Yanomami infant intubated at the Santo Antônio children’s hospital in Boa Vista, Roraima. Image courtesy of Emmily Melo/Hutukara Associação Yanomami.

Five Yanomami infants in Brazil die amid whooping cough outbreak

Shanna Hanbury 27 Feb 2026

Senegal GTA gas project draws international scrutiny

Elodie Toto 27 Feb 2026
Demonstrators in Santarém, Pará state, Brazil. Image courtesy of Amazon Watch.

Brazil revokes decree privatizing three Amazonian rivers after Indigenous protests

Shanna Hanbury 26 Feb 2026

Australia spends $18b more on harming nature than protecting it: Study

Megan Strauss 25 Feb 2026

Indigenous leader assassinated in Colombia’s Caldas department

Aimee Gabay 24 Feb 2026

How seabird poop helped fuel ancient civilizations in Peru

David Brown 19 Feb 2026

Peru mining pollution linked to children’s cognitive impairment: Study

Aimee Gabay 18 Feb 2026
A small airplane used for the illegal mining network is set on fire by IBAMA inspectors in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory.

Brazil mining boss sentenced for illegal gold operation on Indigenous land

Shanna Hanbury 12 Feb 2026

Banks decline to finance LNG project in Papua New Guinea

Victoria Schneider 11 Feb 2026
Demonstrators on Feb. 8 in Santarém, Pará state, Brazil. Image courtesy of Movimento Tapajós Vivo.

Indigenous protests force Brazil to suspend Tapajós River dredging plan

Shanna Hanbury 10 Feb 2026
African penguins at a beach in Simon's Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

Unidentified oil washes up on South African beaches

Victoria Schneider 10 Feb 2026
Fresh shark meat is sold as “cação” at streeet markets in the city of Rio de Janeiro.

Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro bans shark meat in most state schools

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2026

Global moratorium on whaling, a ‘defining moment,’ turns 40

Edward Carver 5 Feb 2026

African wild dogs break the carnivore rule in Botswana 

Ryan Truscott 3 Feb 2026
Truphena Muthoni hugging a tree for 72 consecutive hours. Image by Nyeri Governor Mutahi Kahiga via X.

Kenyan woman hugs a tree for 3 days and inspires a movement

Lynet Otieno 3 Feb 2026

Solar energy gains ground across Africa, but challenges persist

Elodie Toto 30 Jan 2026

New data highlight Peru’s growing oil and gas footprint in the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 30 Jan 2026
Açaí extraction provides income for local communities while helping to keep forests standing.

Brazil declares açaí a national fruit amid biopiracy concerns

Shanna Hanbury 30 Jan 2026

Data show oil and gas blocks cover one-fourth of Ecuador, mostly in the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 29 Jan 2026
An aerial view of Black River, Jamaica, in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa. Image by AP Photo/Matias Delacroix.

More than 87m people impacted by climate-related disasters in 2025

Shanna Hanbury 29 Jan 2026

Honeyguide birds learn local human dialects

Ryan Truscott 23 Jan 2026

Critical wetland in Angola gets formal Ramsar recognition

Ryan Truscott 21 Jan 2026
After a game of beach footvolley on a sweltering hot day in Beirut, Lebanon, a man cools off by pouring water on himself.

2025 was third-warmest year on record, research shows

Shanna Hanbury 20 Jan 2026

South Africa’s great white shark population worries researchers

Victoria Schneider 13 Jan 2026

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The first wildlife bridge in Brazil is connecting habitat across the coastal four-lane BR-101 highway.
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