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Johan Rockström.

Planetary boundary pioneer Johan Rockström awarded 2024 Tyler Prize

Glenn Scherer 29 Feb 2024
A woman in Indonesia harvesting purun grass.

What principles should define natural climate solutions? A new study has some answers

Spoorthy Raman 20 Feb 2024
Walruses east of Svalbard in the Barents Sea.

The new Arctic: Amid record heat, ecosystems morph and wildlife struggle

Sharon Guynup 14 Feb 2024
A coral reef and its residents in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Image ©Greg Asner/divephoto.org.

2023’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Ana Spalding, David Obura, Diva Amon, Minna Epps, Rhett Bennett, U. Rashid Sumaila 16 Jan 2024
A black bear fishes for salmon.

Salmon and other migratory fish play crucial role in delivering nutrients

Ruth Kamnitzer 3 Jan 2024
Indigenous women of Guatemala’s Polochic Valley

Indigenous-led coalition calls for moratorium on terrestrial carbon trade

John Cannon 29 Dec 2023

Mongabay’s top 10 podcast episodes of 2023

Mike DiGirolamo 26 Dec 2023
Attendees from Brazil pose during the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 at Expo City Dubai on December 5, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Image by COP28 / Mahmoud Khaled via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Deed).

Little achieved for Indigenous groups at U.N. climate summit, delegates say

Dimitri Selibas 19 Dec 2023
Journalists and activists in May, 2017, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Fifth from left in the front is activist Hoang Thi Minh Hong.

NGOs at COP28 demand Vietnam free climate advocates before it gets energy funding

Alec Luhn 8 Dec 2023
Clouds reflected in a lake in the Amazon Rainforest.

At COP28 & beyond, fair carbon markets must be part of the climate finance solution (commentary)

Charles Bedford, John Edward Myers 30 Nov 2023
Sitio Paho, Pala’wan Indigenous leader Mami Lapasan, carrying a heavy load of almaciga resin.

How Indigenous peoples and local communities can make the voluntary carbon market work for them (commentary)

Francisco Souza, Jennifer Tauli Corpuz, Kanyinke Sena, Levi Sucre Romero 27 Nov 2023
Kosnipata Valley in Peru. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Can impermanent carbon credits really offset forever emissions?

John Cannon 22 Nov 2023
Salmon attempt to make it up the falls at Bridge River Rapids on the Fraser River in southwestern British Columbia.

Fish out of water: North American drought bakes salmon

Ruth Kamnitzer 20 Nov 2023
Rainforest and an oil palm plantation in Sumatra. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Forests hold massive carbon storage potential — if we cut emissions

Liz Kimbrough 14 Nov 2023
Woman carrying a solar pannel near Yangambi, DRC.

Can carbon markets solve Africa’s climate finance woes?

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Nov 2023
Monarch butterflies

Betting on biodiversity: Q&A with Superorganism’s Kevin Webb & Tom Quigley

Abhishyant Kidangoor 3 Nov 2023
Two Antarctic fur seals playing at St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia.

Amid record melting, countries fail again to protect Antarctic waters

Francesco De Augustinis 30 Oct 2023
Nnimmo Bassey and the team at the spill site at Eteo community in Ogoni, Rivers State.

Stop playing politics with climate change: Q&A with Nigeria’s Nnimmo Bassey

Abdulkareem Mojeed 17 Oct 2023
A trawler Naoned in the European part of North Atlantic Ocean.

Record North Atlantic heat sees phytoplankton decline, fish shift to Arctic

Juliette Portala 12 Oct 2023
A leopard in Primorsky Krai region in the Russian Far East caught on camera.

Taking the global pulse of biodiversity monitoring: Q&A with Andrew Gonzalez

Abhishyant Kidangoor 11 Oct 2023

An ‘aquatic moonshot’ in Vietnam aims to fight livestock methane with seaweed

Michael Tatarski 11 Oct 2023

Frogs in the pot: Two in five amphibian species at risk amid climate crisis

Liz Kimbrough 5 Oct 2023
A snow leopard.

Return of the wolf to Nepal’s Himalayas may threaten snow leopards

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Sep 2023
A coal mine in South Kalimantan, Indonesia.

U.N. ‘stocktake’ calls for fossil fuel phaseout to minimize temperature rise

John Cannon 12 Sep 2023
French President Emmanuel Macron

Macron touts forest conservation while promoting gas project on PNG visit

Rachel Donald 10 Aug 2023
An Old English Longhorn at Knepp. Disturbance from large herbivores has restored this landscape by reactivating natural processes that foster healthy ecology.

From debt to diversity: A journey of rewilding, carbon capture and hope

Elizabeth Fitt 9 Aug 2023
Mangroves in Raja Ampat. Photo credit: Rhett A Butler

Study shows how to maximize mangroves as climate and community solution

Sílvia Lisboa and Maurício Brum 8 Aug 2023
People walking through a forest.

Massive carbon offset deal with Dubai-based firm draws fire in Liberia

Ashoka Mukpo 4 Aug 2023
Women picking the nutritionally rich baobab fruits in Ghana.

Progress is slow on Africa’s Great Green Wall, but some bright spots bloom

Spoorthy Raman 3 Aug 2023
Hervé Berville, France’s state secretary for the sea.

‘The deep sea is vital to protect the ocean’: Q&A with France’s Hervé Berville

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Aug 2023
Evans, a ranger for the REDD+ project Wildlife Works in Kenya's Kasigau Corridor.

Forest campaign group renews charge that carbon credit verification schemes are flawed

Victoria Schneider 28 Jul 2023
Canopy in fall.

Genetically engineered trees stoke climate hope — and environmental fears

Juliette Portala 27 Jul 2023

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