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Farmers tend cropland in Mozambique. The 2015-2016 El Niño brought prolonged drought to southern Africa, reducing crop yields and impacting food security for millions of people. As climate change-induced drought intensifies, repeated annual crop losses lead to long-term economic hardships, impacting mental health including depression and anxiety, a set of conditions that has led to higher suicide rates among farmers in southern Africa.

Smallholder farmers struggle on El Niño frontline; will the world help?

Sean Mowbray 12 Nov 2026
Lin Kuang-li stands among his Ch’ing-hsin oolong tea plants in Longyanlin village, Meishan township, Chiayi county, in Taiwan’s Alishan tea-growing region, on Sept. 24, 2026. Image by Aylin Ho for Mongabay.

Taiwan’s tea growers adapt to climate change by letting nature take control

Mongabay.com 12 Nov 2026
Cape fur seal glides through a kelp forest. Image courtesy of Helen Walne / Sea Change Project.

To boost conservation of kelp forests, start by naming them (commentary)

Swati Thiyagarajan, Helen Walne 12 Nov 2026
A tree in Caxiuanã National Forest in Pará.

How would the Amazon react if it dried up? A 25-year-old field study has the answer

Luís Patriani 11 Nov 2026
One of the Watchers, or Tunyiungi va Lisima, poling a dugout on one of the region’s freshwater lakes, which local tradition considers the lakes to be sacred. Image courtesy of Kostadin Luchansky/AIB/NGOWP.

Angolan hunters protect Southern Africa’s internationally important wetland

Ryan Truscott 11 Nov 2026
Daybreak over a tributary of the Amazon River. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Brazil’s post-election challenge: What President Lula needs to change to keep the Amazon forest standing (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 11 Nov 2026
Proboscis monkey

Rising seas could reshape habitats for more than 40% of world’s land vertebrates

Carolyn Cowan 11 Nov 2026

Drought reshapes livelihoods of Kenya’s Daasanach pastoralists, study finds

David Brown 10 Nov 2026

Greta Thunberg arrives at UN climate talks saying ‘everything we love is at stake’

Associated Press 10 Nov 2026
Rufous-naped Bellbird (Aleadryas rufinucha) in a tree in Papua New Guinea.

El Niño’s hidden toll on trees emerges years later in Papua New Guinea rainforest

Matthew Burkhart 9 Nov 2026
Squid drying in the sun in South Korea.

South Korea’s beloved squid may vanish from its waters due to climate change, heat waves

Kelly Kasulis-Cho 9 Nov 2026
In Brazil, the country’s first urban yellow fever outbreak in more than 80 years was triggered by record drought, along with deforestation and other land use change.

Drought driven by climate change is redefining how disease spreads, study finds

Adam Litchkofski 6 Nov 2026

Extreme heat is creating a workplace health crisis in Bangladesh’s garment industry

Mongabay.com 6 Nov 2026
Waterleaf plants (Talinum fruticosum).

Nigeria’s shifting rainfall wreaks havoc with a beloved edible green, the waterleaf plant

Kingsley Charles 5 Nov 2026

Artificial mangrove roots offer temporary shield for Thailand’s eroding coastline

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2026
Components of the hybrid reef system being installed in Kalaeloa Harbor, which will integrate 60 engineered, concrete reef-mimicking structures with living coral. Image courtesy of Hawaii Department of Transportation.

How a ‘living breakwater’ in Hawai‘i aims to create coral habitat and protect coastline

Jules Struck 4 Nov 2026

Afghanistan’s Taliban officials will attend a UN climate summit for the second time as observers

Associated Press 3 Nov 2026
A member of the Sámi Indigenous people tends a reindeer in Sweden.

Indigenous peoples and local communities solidify decision-making powers at COP17

Latoya Abulu 2 Nov 2026
A white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys)

Diverse forests can better withstand extreme weather events, study finds. Here’s why

Claudia Geib 2 Nov 2026
Parisians try to stay cool on a hot summer day. Europe’s record heat wave this summer claimed 50,000 lives.

Extreme heat no longer confined to summer, extending health risks, study finds

Nick Ruggia 2 Nov 2026

Flash flooding triggers evacuations in Southwest and dire warning for Colorado spa town

Associated Press 2 Nov 2026
A nature-based coastal defense and flood-control project in Pamarawan barangay, in Malolos City, in the Philippine province of Bulacan, on Sept. 28, 2026. Image by Oliver Samson for Mongabay.

Philippine village uses nature to defend against floods with bamboo, shells and husks

Oliver Samson 30 Oct 2026

China’s record-breaking exports of clean tech are making a big dent in emissions, report says

Associated Press 29 Oct 2026
Visiting area of the Véu de Noiva waterfall in Cantá, Roraima.

‘Already feeling it’: Northern Amazon waterfall season ends early, hurting livelihoods

Felipe Medeiros 29 Oct 2026

India’s forgotten vegetables offer a glimpse into what global diets are missing

Mongabay.com 29 Oct 2026

Fishers in eastern Indonesia struggle as rough seas keep them ashore

Basten Gokkon 29 Oct 2026

Netherlands pledges $500 million to help conserve tropical forests

David Brown 28 Oct 2026
Stoke Park in Guildford.

A town-wide ‘living laboratory’ shows how green spaces can combat climate extremes

Claudia Geib 28 Oct 2026

Cyclone batters India’s eastern coast, killing 3 and damaging homes and farmland

Associated Press 28 Oct 2026
Wildfires are devastating, but fire can also be a rejuvenating force for many organisms and landscapes.

As wildfires rage, Canadian researchers study the life that comes after

Anna Dulisse 28 Oct 2026
Over the past century, humanity has invented thousands of novel chemicals.

Global framework urgently needed to assess emerging health risks of novel chemicals, experts say

Claire Asher 27 Oct 2026

Organized crime is growing along highway in a pristine section of the Amazon: Study

Fernanda Wenzel 26 Oct 2026

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