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Indonesia’s wildfire season surges as haze spreads into Malaysia

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Aug 2026

Climate change boosted Spain wildfire risk 20-fold, research shows

Naina Rao 31 Jul 2026

Indonesia shows elevated fire hotspot activity in 2026 as super El Niño threat looms

Hans Nicholas Jong, Irfan Maulana 29 Jul 2026
The main phosphate factory in Gabès. Image by Khadija Ben Salah.

A Tunisian phosphate plant that sickens children so US, Europe can get fertilizer

Khadija Ben Salah, Dawn Kikel, Elisângela Mendonça 22 Jul 2026
Mobilization of residents of Kitombe village in the DRC during demonstrations on May 6 and 7 against the oil company Perenco. Image courtesy of Alphonse Khonde.

‘We couldn’t breathe’: DRC villagers revive protest against Perenco over pollution

Elodie Toto 21 Jul 2026
Grist / Getty Images / Dionne Phillips.

Indigenous advocates push for rights protections around AI data centers

Aimee Gabay 16 Jul 2026

Indonesia’s blackouts reignite debate over coal-dependent energy transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Jul 2026
An auto rickshaw driver covers his face to protect himself from the pollution in Dhaka

Bangladesh unveils sweeping EV incentives to cut emissions and pollution

Kamran Reza Chowdhury 30 Jun 2026
Kusile Power Station, South Africa's largest plant at 4,800 MW, on the outskirts of eMalahleni. Image by Joe Walsh for Mongabay.

Failed promises to clean air in South Africa’s coal belt take toll on public health

Joe Walsh 24 Jun 2026
Kathy Ramos, 17, carries her son Edson near the Patarcocha lagoon, which is used as a dump for sewage and human waste, in the mining town of Cerro de Pasco, Peru. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Lawsuit demands accountability for Cerro de Pasco mining pollution in Peru

Maxwell Radwin 16 Jun 2026

Bangladesh struggles to enforce ‘polluter pays’ principle amid legal delays

Sadiqur Rahman 4 Jun 2026
Bumblebees tracked during the experiment. Image courtesy of Kimmo Kaakinen.

Household mosquito repellents may stop bumblebees from finding their way home

Shanna Hanbury 28 May 2026
A PT IWIP worker walks through the cafeteria after work in early July 2025

Indonesia’s nickel boom linked to rising illness and worker harm, reports find

Rabul Sawal, Yulia Adiningsih 19 May 2026
Fredrick Njoroge Kariuki, left, and Miron Onsarigo, the Hewa Safi innovators. Image courtesy of Lemmuel Agina/The Earth Foundation.

Teen innovators in Kenya turn farm waste into award-winning vehicle exhaust filter

Malavika Vyawahare, Mary Mwendwa 12 May 2026
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

As Sri Lankans choke on bad air, authorities cite transboundary pollution

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 25 Mar 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 woman uses a new cookstove in the village of Bang in the North region of Cameroon.

Cameroon cookstove project looks to slow forest loss

Leocadia Bongben 30 Jan 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

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