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Ethiopia's Abiy Ahmed and TK Kenya's William Ruto at the Africa Climate Summit in Addis Ababa. Image courtesy Africa Climate Summit. (Public Domain)

Leaders pitch homegrown solutions at Africa Climate Summit — and $100b to back them

David Akana 9 Sep 2025
A 1.72-meter (5.6-foot), 102-kilogram (225-pound) Mekong giant barb caught in Tonle Sap Lake in December, 2002.

Shrinking Mekong megafish underlines risks to the river, study finds

Anton L. Delgado 26 Aug 2025
Elephants are one of the species that have bounced back after Namibia’s independence in 1990.

Climate change tests the resilience of people and desert-adapted wildlife in Namibia

Petro Kotzé 21 Aug 2025
A forest gardener waters vegetables in his forest garden in Kaffrine, Senegal.

A forest garden project attempts to expand into the Sahel

Victoria Schneider 28 Jul 2025
Marbled white butterflies (Melanargia galathea)

Assisted colonization could be our ally in adapting to climate change, study suggests

Spoorthy Raman 2 Jul 2025
The critically endangered Alta Floresta Titi monkey (Plecturocebus grovesi) crossing one of the bridges in February 2025. Image courtesy of NZCBI.

Endangered primates use new canopy bridges in a Brazilian Amazon city

Shanna Hanbury 1 Jul 2025
The Nyamugasani River flows through the flood plains in the foothills of Rwenzori Mountains National Park, one of the sites supported by the CAPA initiative.

To survive climate change, scientists say protected areas need ‘climate-smart’ planning

Marina Martinez 13 Jun 2025

A street-smart hawk uses a pedestrian signal to hunt in the city

Bobby Bascomb 23 May 2025
Smoke from a factory.

Ground-level ozone wreaks havoc on warming planet

Mongabay.com 9 May 2025
An agamid lizard in a Chinese rainforest.

Diverse forests and forest rewilding offer resilience against climate change

Sean Mowbray 15 Apr 2025
Red deer in the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria.

How is conservation preparing for a much hotter world? Experts share

Jeremy Hance 10 Apr 2025

Photo series on Himalayan water-saving ice stupas wins global award

Shanna Hanbury 18 Feb 2025

Climate change forces Jakarta fishing families to marry off young daughters

Kristine Sabillo 23 Dec 2024
Second edition YOFAFA Conference in Yaounde. Image by Leocadia Bongben.

Young people in Africa call for a fair increase in funding for climate adaptation

Leocadia Bongben 16 Dec 2024

Researchers propose a ‘circular economy’ solution to housing affordability against climate change

Mike DiGirolamo 3 Dec 2024
Carteret islanders on a canoe. Image credit: Friends of the Earth.

In a Noah’s Ark move, PNG migrants bring thousands of trees to safer ground

Thibault Le Pivain 21 Nov 2024
Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology’s Lappeenranta campus.

As nations develop circular economy plans, Finland’s top expert shares how they lead the way

Mike DiGirolamo 19 Nov 2024
Woman carrying a solar pannel near Yangambi, DRC.

Africa needs COP29 funding & international finance reform to manage climate change (commentary)

David Akana 4 Nov 2024
A serval photographed in the area by camera trap with the Sasol plant behind it in 2019. Image by Dan Loock.

Follow the prey: How servals adapt to an industrialized landscape

Juliette Portala 3 Oct 2024
Drone image of the erodible bluff (bottom) being stabilized by tiers of logs pinned to the ground, back-filled with soil, and planted among erosion-slowing rocks to keep the rising waters at bay, for a 'living shorelines' project on the Blue Hill Peninsula in Maine. Image by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay.

How coastal communities are adapting to sea level rise with ‘living shorelines’

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Aug 2024
Salt tolerant plants are part of a 'living shorelines' project on the Blue Hill Peninsula in Maine. Image by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay.

U.S. East Coast adopts ‘living shorelines’ approach to keep rising seas at bay

Erik Hoffner 24 Apr 2024

Cerrado mammals change their habits to escape humans, study shows

Fernanda Wenzel 2 Apr 2024
Indigenous Tolupan people cultivating crops in Yoro, Honduras

Agroforestry project sows seeds of hope in drought-hit Honduras

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 Mar 2024
Two wild Przewalski’s horses (mares), apparently infatuated with a domestic stallion at a farm in Dytiaku, Ukraine

Long-term wildlife impacts at Chornobyl, Fukushima may yield ‘a new ecology’

Annelise Giseburt 21 Dec 2023
Thailand flood, 2011

Thailand tries nature-based water management to adapt to climate change

Carolyn Cowan 7 Dec 2023
A golden-rumped elephant shrew (Rhynchocyon chrysopygus).

Study shows Kenyan elephant shrew may be adapting to human disturbance, drought

Ryan Truscott 25 May 2023

An Asian grass helps Mexican farmers build resilience to climate change

Sandra Weiss 22 May 2023

Sri Lanka aims to restore ancient irrigation tanks in climate change plan

Malaka Rodrigo 22 Apr 2023
Oil production vessel Liza Destiny 200 km offshore of Guyana in the Stabroek block. Image via www.oilnow.gy.

Guyana gets ‘Drilled’: Weighing South America’s latest oil boom with Amy Westervelt

Mike DiGirolamo 18 Apr 2023
The daily livestock market in Lodwar, Turkana County's biggest business hub. Image by Kang-Chun Cheng.

‘During droughts, pivot to agroecology’: Q&A with soil expert at the World Agroforestry Centre

Kang-Chun Cheng 28 Feb 2023
Fishermen at dawn heading out onto Lake Turkana to try their luck for the day. Image by Kang-Chun Cheng.

Herders turn to fishing in the desert amid severe drought, putting pressure on fish population

Kang-Chun Cheng 28 Feb 2023
Rainstorm over Turkana, Kenya. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Climate change could force 1.2 billion to move by 2050. Is the world even remotely ready?

Robert Muggah 9 Dec 2022

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