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A desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) in Joshua Tree National Park. Image courtesy of Mojave Land Trust.

California solar project threatens Mojave wildlife corridor, scientists say

Hyeyoon Cho 24 Jul 2026
A man displays a photo he says shows toxic chemicals spilled due to oil drilling, in Moanda, western Democratic Republic of Congo, 2023.

Fighting new oil blocks in the Congo Basin: Interview with activist Pascal Mirindi

Dan Yessa 17 Jul 2026
A fisher casts a net in the Mahanadi River in Odisha. Image by Sujit kumar via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Rivers are not just water bodies: Interview with the Waterman of Odisha

Stephin Thomas 17 Jul 2026
Baobab (Adansonia digitata) in Mapungubwe National Park, Limpopo.

Like ‘climbing Kilimanjaro’ without help: Interview with a Limpopo conservationist

Bernard Chiguvare 15 Jul 2026
The Katas Raj Temples and the pond, 2014.

No corporation can buy the ‘right to destroy’: Interview with activist Raja Waseem Ahmed

Muhammad Talal 15 Jul 2026
A local community in Karenni collected garbage in 2025.

Community conservation under fire: Interview with Myanmar’s Clean Mountains founder

Esther J 15 Jul 2026
Through the Mazingira Women Initiative, Hamida has spent those years organizing around waste management, smart farming, land rights and women’s leadership.

Waste, women & environmental justice: Interview with Nubian activist Malasen Hamida

Ouma Elvine Tina 14 Jul 2026

Humans’ relationship with nature: Interview with ethnobotanist Pavel Partha

Usraat Fahmidah 13 Jul 2026
Manzoor Ahmad Wangnoo rows a shikara across the Khushalsar-Gilsar wetland system in Srinagar

Restoring Kashmir’s lakes one community at a time: Interview with Manzoor Ahmad Wangnoo

Hashim Quraishi 10 Jul 2026
A western chimpanzee at Tacugama.

Conserving Sierra Leone’s western chimpanzees: Interview with Tacugama’s Willie Tucker

Patricia Sia Ngevao 10 Jul 2026
A hooded vulture landing on its roost in Lagos.

Confronting culture to protect vultures: Interview with Nigeria’s Michael Williams

Kingsley Charles 8 Jul 2026
Shoebill stork (Balaeniceps rex), Murchison Falls NP, Uganda. Image by Kyla Marino via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

East African Crude Oil Pipeline threatens wetlands, wildlife corridors: Report

Victoria Schneider 12 Jun 2026

Researchers uncover 10 new moth species and 7 new genera in Hawaiʻi

Bobby Bascomb 4 Apr 2026

US cuts legal foundation for federal climate regulation

Bobby Bascomb 13 Feb 2026

Encouragement boosts people’s likelihood to take climate action

Bobby Bascomb 6 Feb 2026

Light pollution could worsen allergy seasons, new study suggests

Bobby Bascomb 5 Feb 2026
22-year-old environmentalist Truphena Muthoni, when she started her 72-hour tree hugging challenge in Kenya’s Nyeri County, on the foot of Mount Kenya. The local county governor Dr Mutahi Kahiga (second right) witnessed the start of the challenge that ended on December 11, 2025. Photo: Mutahi Kahiga X

Kenyan woman hugs tree for 72 hours in protest against loss of beloved trees

Lynet Otieno 18 Dec 2025
Women and children return from their farmlands after the day's work in northcentral Nigeria.

Banned for years, dangerous pesticides persist in Nigerian farming

Samuel Ogunsona 12 Dec 2025
In this 2016 image, then-U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power (left), and then- Cameroonian Minister of Forestry and Wildlife Philip Ngole Ngwese (right), attend the destruction of some 2,000 illegally trafficked elephant tusks and ivory products.

African environment programs still try to fill funding gap since USAID freeze

Fanta Mabo 11 Dec 2025

Despite a growing planetary crisis, leaders find hope in community efforts

David Akana 11 Dec 2025

What would this scientist tell Trump? Interview with Robert Watson, former chair of the IPCC

David Akana 9 Dec 2025

Global leaders seek action on environment, despite divide

David Akana 8 Dec 2025
Twentieth edition of the Conference of Youth (COY), which precedes COP30 and also took place in Belém, Brazil.

What was — and the uncertainty of what will be: Youth voices from COP30

Fernanda Biasoli 4 Dec 2025

‘Our zeal is unwavering’: 3 environmental defenders share trials, tribulations, hopes

David Akana 12 Nov 2025
Volunteers clean up plastic and other waste materials on a beach on the Arabian Sea coast on World Environment Day in Mumbai. Environmental crises are lived experiences for young generations today — including journalists. Image by AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File.

Early-career journalists join the next wave of environmental reporting (commentary)

Shradha Triveni 7 Nov 2025
A man wearing a face mask reads newspaper outside a shopping mall in downtown Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in January 2021. Malaysian authorities imposed tighter restrictions on movement to try to halt the spread of COVID-19. Image by AP Photo/Vincent Thian.

Strong ethics set journalists apart in a changing information landscape (commentary)

Lee Kwai Han 7 Nov 2025

Healthy rivers, healthy people: A Brazil project links human & ecosystem well-being

Fernanda Biasoli 6 Nov 2025

The uncertain future of DRC’s traditional medicine, a heritage to save (commentary)

Blaise Kasereka Makuta 6 Nov 2025
Colombian climate activist Sofía Gutiérrez on stage after a march through the streets of Glasgow, Scotland, host city of the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit. Image by AP Photo/Jon Super.

Journalism is failing to report on environmental leaders’ fights (commentary)

Manuel Fonseca 5 Nov 2025

Youth, hope & the role of environmental journalism in building a better future (commentary)

Fernanda Biasoli 4 Nov 2025
A shepherd watches livestock near Khi Solar One, a solar thermal plant that converts the sun's light energy into electricity, outside Upington, South Africa. Solar offers vast untapped potential in Africa. Image by AP Photo/Themba Hadebe.

At COP30, Africa can lead the way to a sustainable future — but will it? (commentary)

Samuel Ogunsona 3 Nov 2025
A Jordanian Bedouin boy leads a tourist on a camel through the ancient city of Petra, Jordan. World Cultural Heritage sites made out of stone are at risk from the effects of severe weather and climate change.

Climate change is wreaking havoc on World Cultural Heritage sites, study finds

Shradha Triveni 27 Oct 2025

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