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Vatican puts Pope Francis’ ecological preaching into practice with vocational farm center

Associated Press 2 Sep 2025
A leopard caught on a camera trap in the Musekese Lumbeya section of Kafue National Park, where Musekese Conservation conducts its research into recovering carnivore populations.

Leopards and wild dogs are thriving in Zambia’s Kafue National Park

Mongabay 2 Sep 2025

A Chinese mining company is accused of covering up the extent of a major toxic spill in Zambia

Associated Press 1 Sep 2025
Dust on the floors of residents’ houses in Teluk Sepang, Bengkulu.

Censured Sumatra coal plant blamed for sickening children in Indonesia’s Bengkulu

Elviza Diana 1 Sep 2025
Image courtesy of Burung Indonesia/Jihad.

On Java’s Mount Slamet, two former trappers find new calling as bird protectors

L. Darmawan 31 Aug 2025

A ‘sea war’ brews off Gambia as desperate local fishermen attack foreign vessels, and each other

Associated Press 29 Aug 2025

Indonesia’s fish farm expansion to absorb D.C.-sized swath of protected forests

M Ambari 29 Aug 2025

The call of a native frog is heard again in Southern California thanks to help from Mexico and AI

Associated Press 28 Aug 2025

California lawmakers seek to curb oil imports from Amazon

Associated Press 27 Aug 2025

Mass evacuations in eastern Pakistan as India releases water from swollen rivers

Associated Press 26 Aug 2025

Vietnam evacuates hundreds of thousands as typhoon Kajiki nears landfall

Associated Press 25 Aug 2025

China races to build world’s largest solar farm to meet emissions targets

Associated Press 22 Aug 2025

How Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize plan to protect 14 million acres of Mayan forest

Associated Press 21 Aug 2025

Tortoise hatchlings born of century-old parents come out of their shells at Philadelphia Zoo

Associated Press 20 Aug 2025

Spain deploys 500 more troops to battle wildfires during extended heat wave

Associated Press 18 Aug 2025

The death toll from flash floods in northwest Pakistan has jumped to 157, officials say

Associated Press 15 Aug 2025
A helicopter drops water on a wildfire in Larouco, northwestern Spain, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Lalo R. Villar)

Greece, Spain and Portugal race to contain wildfires as EU steps up cross-border help

Associated Press 15 Aug 2025

One of the world’s most polluted cities has banned single-use plastics. It’s not so easy

Associated Press 13 Aug 2025

Violent guerrillas are taking Colombia’s children. Unarmed Indigenous groups are confronting them

Associated Press 12 Aug 2025

Torrential rains in southern Japan cause flooding & mudslides, several people missing

Associated Press 11 Aug 2025
This photo provided by the Securite Civile on Friday, Aug.8, 2025 shows firefighters next to a wildfire Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025 near Jonquieres, southern France. (Securite Civile via AP)

High temperatures threaten to reignite blaze after France’s largest wildfire in decades

Associated Press 8 Aug 2025

Czech zoo welcomes 4 rare Barbary lion cubs whose population is extinct in the wild

Associated Press 6 Aug 2025
A humpback whale fluke.

Krill fishery in Antarctica shut down after record catch triggers unprecedented early closure

Associated Press 5 Aug 2025

In Ecuador, environmentalists worry Noboa is unwinding nation’s green reputation

Associated Press 4 Aug 2025

Ethiopia’s national tree campaign underway with aim to plant 700 million seedlings in one day

Associated Press 31 Jul 2025

Trump Environmental Protection Agency moves to repeal finding that allows climate regulation

Associated Press 29 Jul 2025

To host UN climate talks, Brazil chose one of its poorer cities. That’s no accident

Associated Press 28 Jul 2025

Peru seizes record 4-ton mercury shipment in fight against illegal gold mining

Associated Press 25 Jul 2025

Uruguay confronts a powerful new threat to its palm trees: A tiny red bug

Associated Press 24 Jul 2025

A look at megafires as an Oregon wildfire approaches the 100,000-acre mark

Associated Press 23 Jul 2025

UN says booming solar, wind and other green energy hits global tipping point for even lower costs

Associated Press 22 Jul 2025
Thai authorities seized more than 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of ivory hidden in luggage shipped out from Congo to Laos via Bangkok in 2015.

Large-scale illegal wildlife shops in Laos found scamming Chinese tourists

Mongabay.com 22 Jul 2025

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