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Jailed Vietnamese civil society leader wins award, boosting calls for his release

Jenny Denton 1 Aug 2025
Campaigners in The Hague, Netherlands, where the ICJ gave its advisory opinion. Image courtesy of Tengbeh Kamara/Greenpeace.

Historic court ruling says countries legally bound to prevent climate harm

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Jul 2025
Ly Chandaravuth, Mother Nature Cambodia activist. Image © Andy Ball.

The price of protecting what’s left in Cambodia

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Jul 2025
Emergent tree in the Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

To change the environment, change the narrative

Mike DiGirolamo 15 Jul 2025
Banner image of a flare stack by Yerevan Malarerva via Pexels.

UN rapporteur calls for ban on fossil fuel ads and criminalizing of disinformation

Kristine Sabillo 7 Jul 2025
Banner image of smokestacks by Pixabay via Pexels (Public domain).

Catholic bishops from Global South call for ambitious climate action ahead of COP30

Kristine Sabillo 2 Jul 2025
Young activists risk all to defend Cambodia’s environment

Young activists risk all to defend Cambodia’s environment

Andy Ball, Marta Kasztelan 2 Jul 2025
Banner image of drought in Brazil in 2023. Image by AP Photo/Edmar Barros.

Vatican-backed report calls for global debt relief amid climate crisis

Kristine Sabillo 20 Jun 2025
A coal miner walking barefoot through heaps of coal dust at a coal mine and processing plant, Jharkand, India. Image courtesy of Rajesh Kumar Singh / Climate Visuals Countdown.

At COP30 & beyond, the fight for climate justice must end corporate impunity (commentary)

Pablo Fajardo 17 Jun 2025
Employed women of the Banpewa community carrying seedlings to the planting site.

After controversy, Plant-for-the-Planet focuses on the trees

Maxwell Radwin 13 Jun 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
White rhyolite spires on the shores of Jodogahama Beach in Miyako, Japan. Iwate prefecture. These spires are estimated to be around 45 million years old, and form a natural version of a Japanese garden. This beach is part of the Sanriku Fukkō National Park. It was incorporated into this national park as a reconstruction effort following the Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. Photo by Mike DiGirolamo/Mongabay.

Kim Stanley Robinson on how his novel ‘Ministry for the Future’ holds lessons for the present

Mike DiGirolamo 3 Jun 2025
Banner image: Photos of human rights lawyer Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca, who disappeared last year in Mexico. Photo by Luis Rojas via Global Witness.

Environmental defenders targeted in 3 out of 4 human rights attacks: Report

Kristine Sabillo 23 May 2025
Using the law to save the planet | Against All Odds

How to use the law to save the planet | Against All Odds

Sam Lee 16 Apr 2025
Banner image of Pasir Timbul in Raja Ampat, Indonesia, by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

122 companies responsible for a third of present day sea-level rise: Study

Kristine Sabillo 8 Apr 2025
Wind farm. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Beyond COP, former UN climate chief talks nuance, optimism on Mongabay podcast

Mongabay.com 19 Feb 2025
Deforestation in Vinh Kien, northern Vietnam.

Internet crackdown shrinks already constrained room for activism in Vietnam

Hướng Thiện 24 Dec 2024

Landmark ICJ climate change hearing concludes; opinion expected in 2025

Shreya Dasgupta 17 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

World’s top court starts hearing historic climate change case

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Dec 2024
Banner image of civil society groups protesting at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Image courtesy of 350.org.

With COP29 letdown, climate activists pin their hopes on Brazil

Kristine Sabillo 26 Nov 2024

Seeking solutions in Indigenous knowledge: Interview with the Maldives’ Mohamed Nasheed

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 23 Nov 2024

Young climate advocates against carbon markets at COP29

David Akana 20 Nov 2024

Growing fossil fuel presence at COP concerns many

David Akana 15 Nov 2024
Indigenous gathering in the Caribbean. Image courtesy of Caroline Mair-Toby.

I’m boycotting COP29 because local Indigenous action matters more (commentary)

Caroline Mair-Toby 15 Nov 2024
Todd Smith dreamt of being an airline pilot since he was five years old. He left the aviation industry in 2020, and is now working to reform it. Image by Helena Dolby. Courtesy of Todd Smith.

Grounded: A pilot who quit flying to help tackle climate change works to change aviation, for good

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 12 Nov 2024

U.S. policy experts confident of future climate action despite Trump election

Justin Catanoso 8 Nov 2024
Banner image of Turkana women from Kenya by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Women-led groups remain ‘severely underfunded’ for climate action: Report

Kristine Sabillo 29 Oct 2024

Indigenous perspectives and a fossil fuel phaseout treaty featured at Climate Week

Mike DiGirolamo 8 Oct 2024

‘Thugs’ disrupt Jakarta climate march as attacks on civil liberties increase

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Oct 2024
Vietnamese environmental activists protesting coal-fired power plants in 2017. Second from left is Hoàng Thị Minh Hồng.

Influential Vietnamese environmentalist released from prison two years early

Mongabay.com 25 Sep 2024

A future where we might ‘get climate right’: A conversation with Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Sep 2024

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