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‘They’re going to get worse and worse’: Marine heat wave persists off Sydney

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Feb 2022

Amazon losing far more carbon from forest degradation than deforestation: Study

Graycen Wheeler 9 Feb 2022

Two storms in two weeks carve trail of death and destruction in Madagascar

Mongabay.com 7 Feb 2022

‘There’s not much hope’: Mediterranean corals collapse under relentless heat

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 4 Feb 2022

Typhoon exposes biodiversity haven Palawan’s vulnerability — and resilience

Keith Anthony Fabro 24 Jan 2022

In Africa, temperatures rise, but adaptation lags on West’s funding failure

Mongabay.com 19 Jan 2022
Colombia

Coastal deforestation fuels more frequent storms in West Africa, study warns

Mongabay.com 11 Jan 2022

Mali’s centuries-old pastoralist traditions wilt as the climate changes

Malavika Vyawahare 31 Dec 2021
Rising water levels Kenya

Sinkholes emerge in rural Kenya after series of floods, droughts

Kang-Chun Cheng 30 Dec 2021

As climate-driven drought slams farms in U.S. West, water solutions loom

Saul Elbein 17 Dec 2021

‘Tis the season’ for cold-stunned sea turtles — and their rescue — on Cape Cod

Elizabeth Devitt 6 Dec 2021

In a warming world, deforestation turns the heat deadly, Borneo study finds

Grace Dungey 25 Nov 2021
Bolivia

With La Niña conditions back, is it good news for tropical forests?

Carolyn Cowan 22 Nov 2021

2°C warming limit? More like 3°C and hotter, leading climate scientists say

Mongabay.com 2 Nov 2021

From flood to drought, Brazil’s Acre state swings between weather extremes

Leandro Chaves and Juliana Ennes 29 Oct 2021

What makes a ‘refugee’? It could be a life-or-death question in the climate crisis

Ashoka Mukpo 28 Oct 2021
The aquatic life of the San Pedro Mártir River in Tabasco, Mexico, finds refuge in the submerged roots of the red mangrove forests. Image by Octavio Aburto.

Inland mangroves reveal a tumultuous climatic past — and hint at our future

John Cannon 14 Oct 2021

Women on storm-hit Philippine island lead Indigenous effort to restore mangroves

Keith Anthony Fabro 7 Oct 2021

Extreme heat exposure in cities tripled in less than 35 years, study finds

Malavika Vyawahare 6 Oct 2021

Children born in 2020 will see spike in climate disasters, study says

Ashoka Mukpo 30 Sep 2021

Fires bear down on Brazil park that’s home to jaguars, maned wolves

Sarah Sax 23 Sep 2021
A farmer uses a manure spreader as a natural fertilizer. An excess of manure from livestock produces an excess of ammonia, a harmful nitrogen emission. Image by CityofGeneva via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Nitrogen: The environmental crisis you haven’t heard of yet

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Sep 2021

Researchers express alarm as Arctic multiyear sea ice hits record low

Gloria Dickie 17 Sep 2021

The Pantanal is burning again. Will it be another devastating year?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Sep 2021

As populations grow, how will thirsty cities survive their drier futures?

Petro Kotzé 18 Aug 2021

2015-2016 El Niño caused 2.5 billion trees to die in just 1% of the Amazon

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 16 Aug 2021
The Rietholzbach catchment is a hilly pre-alpine basin in north eastern Switzerland

Reforestation holds promise for Europe’s increasingly drier summers

Jim Tan 10 Aug 2021
Glacier in Antarctica. Photo credit: N. Butler

Humans’ role in climate warming ‘unequivocal,’ IPCC report shows

John Cannon 9 Aug 2021

A world of hurt: 2021 climate disasters raise alarm over food security

Sue Branford and Glenn Scherer 4 Aug 2021

Cerrado desertification: Savanna could collapse within 30 years, says study

Fernanda Wenzel 28 Jul 2021

Eight of the 10 nations most at risk from climate and toxic pollution in Africa: study

Mongabay.com 27 Jul 2021

Record heat waves are a taste of what’s to come under a changing climate

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 26 Jul 2021

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