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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
Silhouette of a plane.

Will we be ready? Geoengineering policy lags far behind pace of climate change

Charles Pekow 26 Aug 2024
Boys swim in the Buriganga River near Dhaka during a heat wave in May 2024.

Conserving & restoring waterways can mitigate extreme urban heat in Bangladesh

Riley Comstock 20 Aug 2024
A sea turtle in Ningaloo Reef, Australia.

As waterbodies lose oxygen, are we breaching a potential planetary boundary?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts, Glenn Scherer 13 Aug 2024
The ocean

Cloud brightening over oceans may stave off climate change, but with risk

Sean Mowbray 12 Aug 2024
Seema Devi and other women from her village line up at the aquifer beneath the newly constructed field that doubles as a helipad.

Uttarakhand villagers thirst for water as tourism, temps & development rise

Swati Thapa 9 Aug 2024
Fraser Valley as seen from Sumas Mountain.

Climate change could return a stolen lake to Indigenous people, a century later

Olivia Ferrari 7 Aug 2024
Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) is one of the best researched geoengineering strategies under consideration as a climate change “painkiller.”

Geoengineering gains momentum, but governance is lacking, critics say

Sean Mowbray 1 Aug 2024
Trees cut down for biomass.

Biomass power grows in Japan despite new understanding of climate risks

Annelise Giseburt 29 Jul 2024
Sun over a city skyline.

Don’t even study it: Geoengineering research hits societal roadblocks

Jeremy Hance 24 Jul 2024
A farmer applies biochar in the field.

Biochar could play big role in Bhutan’s carbon storage — but it’s news to farmers

Choki Wangmo 24 Jul 2024

As New England forests are razed for solar power, experts urge smarter siting

Mike DiGirolamo 23 Jul 2024
Silhouette of grain crops with the sun in the background.

Sun block: The promise and peril of solar geoengineering

Jeremy Hance 23 Jul 2024
Morchella esculenta mushrooms, locally called gucchi.

Traditional foods have the potential to help Kashmir communities adapt to climate change: study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 16 Jul 2024

Women in Sierra Leone unite after devastating floods

Romi Castagnino 26 Jun 2024
A phytoplankton bloom in the Baltic Sea captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

Can iron fertilization of the oceans help solve the climate crisis? (commentary)

Dr. David Koweek, Dr. Sara Nawaz 10 Jun 2024
South Kalimantan's Walhi measures the trees on Mount Hauk, the sacred territory of the Dayak Pitap.

‘Non-market’ solutions to deforestation need more support, advocates say

Ashoka Mukpo 31 May 2024
Alson Kelen on a U.S. airstrip runway. Image by Mark Klett/Cape Farewell.

Marshallese worries span decades — first nuclear tests, now sea-level rise

Amélie David 29 May 2024
Tropical forest in Panama. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Cutting forests for solar energy ‘misses the plot’ on climate action (commentary)

Judith D. Schwartz 24 May 2024
A lemur leaf frog in Costa Rica.

Are carbon credits another resource-for-cash grab? Interview with Alondra Cerdes Morales & Samuel Nguiffo

Latoya Abulu, Sonam Lama Hyolmo 22 May 2024
Two polar bear siblings play-fighting in the wild on Barter Island, Alaska.

Report ranks 60+ ideas, including geoengineering, to save the Arctic

Jeremy Hance 21 May 2024

‘Weather whiplash’ cycles of floods & droughts imperil Nigerian farming

Tarinipre Francis 15 May 2024

African health experts warn of climate change & rising vector-borne diseases

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 13 May 2024
A squash farmer next to his crops.

Bangladeshi farmers find zucchini’s high yields & low costs palatable

Farhana Parvin 9 May 2024
Voters in West Bengal's Dinhata constituency, adjacent to Bangladesh, in 2016.

From polling stations to weather stations, the heat is on in India (commentary)

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 9 May 2024

UK’s Drax targets California forests for two major wood pellet plants

Justin Catanoso 6 May 2024
Electric irrigation pump in a paddy field in Chuadanga, Bangladesh.

Rocky rollout for Bangladesh’s ambitious solar-powered irrigation plans

Abu Siddique 6 May 2024
Rescue efforts in the aftermath of the GLOF event in Sikkim on October 4. Photo by Press Information Bureau, Government of India.

Multilateral development banks must prioritize clean & community-led energy projects (commentary)

Alessandro Ramazzotti, Vaishnavi Varadarajan, Anggita Indari 1 May 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

Consent and costs are key questions on extraction of ‘energy transition’ minerals

Mike DiGirolamo 23 Apr 2024
A visual reconstruction of the February 19, 2023 incident in which a Hong Kong-flagged cargo vessel reportedly hit the Indian fishing boat, Ruby, 450 nautical miles away from Kanyakumari, the southernmost tip of India.

Warming seas push India’s fishers into distant, and more dangerous, waters

Imran Muzaffar, Aliya Bashir 23 Apr 2024
Workers loading cement.

Circular solutions vital to curb enviro harm from cement and concrete

Sean Mowbray 18 Apr 2024

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