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portrait of Anthonia Akonasu. Image courtesy of Taiwo Aina-Adeokun.

Crude oil and wood fires fuel Nigeria’s soot pollution, in photos

Shanna Hanbury 7 May 2026

Open dumping & failed reforms bury Sri Lankan cities in waste problem

Malaka Rodrigo 23 Apr 2026
A student goes to school wearing a mask in the haze that blankets the city of Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan in 2017.

Indonesia braces for possible ‘Godzilla El Niño’ as fire season escalates early

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Apr 2026

Repeated failures expose gaps in Indonesia’s nickel waste management

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Apr 2026

Investigation links DRC air pollution concerns to major copper-cobalt plant

Elodie Toto 19 Mar 2026
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station.

Rush to put AI data centers in space poses poorly understood dangers

Sean Mowbray 11 Mar 2026

Towering lava fountains of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano trigger park and highway closures

Associated Press 11 Mar 2026
The construction site of Bridge Data Centre's 0.2 GW QHI01 data center in Khlong Tamru subdistrict, Chonburi province, Thailand. Photo by Andy Ball/Mongabay.

Thai data center boom sparks fears of water shortage, air pollution

Gerald Flynn 11 Mar 2026
Aerial view as a ship sails through the sea ice in the winter.

Petrostates stymie effort to rein in Arctic shipping carbon emissions

Sean Mowbray 23 Feb 2026
A firefighter puts out fires in a peatland in Indonesia.

Thousands of peat fires flare across Indonesia despite rainy season

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Feb 2026

Pilot projects aim to break Indonesia’s habit of burning household waste

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Feb 2026

Indonesia’s steel expansion risks a surge in greenhouse gas emissions

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Feb 2026
Open burning of plastic in a community in Guiyu, China. This practice is fast becoming a common way to dispose of plastic and other waste.

Plastic household waste burned as fuel on rise in Global South, risking health

Sean Mowbray 5 Feb 2026
A barn owl hunting for fleeing prey along a fire’s periphery.

How are California’s birds faring amid ever more frequent wildfires?

Gloria Dickie 31 Dec 2025

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

David Akana 9 Dec 2025
A child at work collecting e-waste in the Agbogbloshie dump in Ghana.

Can two Amazons survive? Invisible e-waste is poisoning the world

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 3 Dec 2025
Where cars go to die: an auto graveyard.

A ‘Life After Cars’ can provide huge human health and environmental benefits

Mike DiGirolamo 2 Dec 2025
A forest fire in Acre, the westernmost state of the Brazilian Amazon. Image courtesy of Victor Moriyama/Clean Air Fund.

Soot: The super-pollutant choking a burning Earth, in photos

Shanna Hanbury 20 Nov 2025

Air pollution levels surge in India’s capital, sparking rare protests

Associated Press 10 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
Watcharakon Jatoenpun, AKA Sprite, showed reporters the expansive maize farms he works on in Mae Cham district, where seasonal air pollution is tied to agricultural burning. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Karen community fighting corn and coal for clean air in northern Thailand

Gerald Flynn 6 Nov 2025
Ganga River at Varanasi ghat. Image by Babasteve via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

India’s Ganga River drying at unprecedented levels

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2025

Drax pellet mill wins appeal to raise pollution limits in small Mississippi town

Justin Catanoso 28 Oct 2025
Students in Afghanistan walk to school in a sand storm during a drought in 2019.

Supercharged dust storms are exposing millions to deadly air pollution

Mongabay.com 28 Oct 2025

Nepal seeks World Bank loan to fight air pollution despite hefty taxes to do so

Abhaya Raj Joshi 17 Oct 2025
A giant dust storm approaches the metro area of Phoenix, Arizona, Aug. 25, 2025.

Climate change is messing with global wind speeds, impacting planetary health

Sean Mowbray 3 Oct 2025
The Mae Moh power plant in northern Thailand's Lampang province is a significant contributor to air pollution and has sickened residents across Mae Moh district. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Anguish for residents as Thailand’s most polluting coal plant gets new lease of life

Gerald Flynn 1 Oct 2025

Every stage of fossil fuel life cycle harms people & the environment: Report

Bobby Bascomb 26 Sep 2025

Indonesia reopens Raja Ampat nickel mine despite reef damage concerns

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 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

Nepal’s Supreme Court halts industrial development in Buddha’s birthplace

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 29 Aug 2025
Waste burning in the Maldives. Open burning of plastic is a cheap way of reducing waste volume, but the practice is rife with health and environmental risks.

Global South bears growing burden of health threats from plastic burning

Mongabay.com 25 Aug 2025

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