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In this photo released by Agents Rurals de Catalunya, uncontrolled fire rages across the grasslands in the Segarra region, in the rural province of Lleida, Spain, Tuesday, July 1, 2025. (AP Photo/ Agents Rurals de Catalunya, HO)

Wildfire kills 2 people in Spain as parts of Europe bake in heat wave

Associated Press 2 Jul 2025

Major reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites

Associated Press 1 Jul 2025
The abandoned village of Samjung, with ancient caves carved in the cliffs in the background, is seen in the Mustang region, 462 kilometers west of Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Ancient Himalayan village relocates as climate shifts reshape daily life

Associated Press 1 Jul 2025

NOAA delays the cutoff of key satellite data for hurricane forecasting

Associated Press 30 Jun 2025
Tourists try to protect themselves from the sun as they line up to enter at the St. Mark Basilica in Venice, Italy, Friday, June 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Scorching temperatures grip Europe, putting regions on high alert

Associated Press 30 Jun 2025
Banner image of a humpback whale breaching in Iceland, by Giles Laurent via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Commuter traffic stops for whales on Australia’s humpback highway

Associated Press 27 Jun 2025
Local residents look to the Swat River, which is overflowing due to pre-monsoon heavy rains in the area, on the outskirts of Mingora, the main town of Pakistan's Swat Valley, Friday, June 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Sherin Zada)

Flash floods in Pakistan kill 8 and 58 are rescued after deluge swept away dozens

Associated Press 27 Jun 2025

Colombian waste pickers inundate iconic Bogota square with plastic bottles to protest falling wages

Associated Press 26 Jun 2025

Switzerland’s ebbing glaciers show a new, strange phenomenon: holes reminiscent of Swiss cheese

Associated Press 25 Jun 2025
Firefighters battle with a large wildfire burning in Kofinas, on the eastern Aegean island of Chios, Greece, late Sunday, June 22, 2025. (Pantelis Fykaris/Politischios.gr via AP)

Firefighters battle a wildfire burning out of control on the Greek island of Chios

Associated Press 25 Jun 2025

GOP plan to sell more than 3,200 square miles of federal lands is found to violate Senate rules

Associated Press 24 Jun 2025
Hoh rainforest. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Trump administration plans to rescind rule blocking logging on national forest lands

Associated Press 24 Jun 2025
Residents remove debris after the passing of Hurricane Erick, near Charco Redondo, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Cruz)

Mexico assesses damage from Hurricane Erick as rising rivers leave at least 1 dead

Associated Press 23 Jun 2025

California is to examine its Amazon oil ties following pleas from Indigenous leaders from Ecuador

Associated Press 20 Jun 2025

South Africa declares national disaster as flooding death toll rises to 92

Associated Press 19 Jun 2025

Brazil auctions off several Amazon oil sites despite environmentalists and Indigenous protests

Associated Press 18 Jun 2025
A sign is set up ahead of President Joe Biden's visit to the Chuckwalla National Monument, Jan. 7, 2025, to the Coachella Valley, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

US Justice Department says Trump can cancel national monuments that protect landscapes

Associated Press 18 Jun 2025

Study finds planetary waves linked to wild summer weather have tripled since 1950

Associated Press 17 Jun 2025
View of the village Brienz and the "Brienzer Rutsch", taken in Brienz-Brinzauls, Switzerland, May 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Arnd Wiegmann, File)

Swiss village evacuated over threat of rockslide

Associated Press 17 Jun 2025

Utah Republican proposes sale of more than 2 million acres of US lands

Associated Press 13 Jun 2025

Ahead of UN climate talks, Brazil fast-tracks oil and highway projects that threaten the Amazon

Associated Press 13 Jun 2025
A man with a child look at a home submerged in floodwater, in Mthatha, South Africa, Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Hoseya Jubase)

Rescuers in South Africa search for the missing after floods leave at least 49 dead

Associated Press 13 Jun 2025
A photo provided by the Oregon Department of Transportation shows a wildfire burning in the median of Interstate 84 as the blaze shut down the highway between Hood River and The Dalles, in Ore. on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. (Oregon Department of Transportation via AP)

Oregon wildfire prompts evacuations and closes interstate in Columbia River Gorge

Associated Press 13 Jun 2025
A still from Turtle Walker.

How one researcher walked thousands of miles along India’s shores to conserve sea turtles

Priyanka Shankar 20 Mar 2025

High-flying concessions: Clandestine airstrips, coca crops invade Ucayali’s forests

Mongabay Latam 16 Dec 2024

Narco airstrips beset Indigenous communities in Peruvian Amazon

Mongabay Latam 9 Dec 2024

15 illegal narco-trafficking airstrips found near Peru Indigenous communities

Mongabay Latam 4 Dec 2024

The illegal runways exposing the Kakataibo people to drug violence in Peru

Mongabay Latam 29 Nov 2024

Indigenous leaders killed as narco airstrips cut into their Amazon territories

Mongabay Latam 25 Nov 2024

Luxury hunting firm linked to decades of poaching in Tanzania, whistleblowers say

Mongabay.com 22 Aug 2024
An elephant in Udawalawe, Sri Lanka.

Leading the charge in philanthropy across Asia: Interview with Lim Seok Hui

Matthew Boyer 24 Jul 2024
Dominick DellaSala, chief scientist with Oregon-based NGO Wild Heritage walks on a trail.

The U.S. has cataloged its forests. Now comes the hard part: Protecting them

Justin Catanoso 27 Apr 2023

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