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El Nino is here and scientists fear it’ll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires

Associated Press 11 Jun 2026

The search for climate-resilient coffee: Diversifying beyond Arabica and Robusta

Mongabay.com 11 Jun 2026

A ‘climate-ready’ corridor created for Kyrgyzstan’s snow leopards

Mongabay.com 11 Jun 2026

Kenya is Africa’s first country to receive crucial climate disaster funding

Lynet Otieno 11 Jun 2026

Indonesia’s grassroots farmers face increased unpredictability, experts say

Naina Rao 10 Jun 2026
Climate Wayfinding with a design background. Image by Amerpsand. Courtesy of Katharine Wilkinson.

‘Climate Wayfinding’ can help you unpack the overwhelm of our ecological problems

Mike DiGirolamo 9 Jun 2026

Taiwan’s tallest tree found with help of citizen science

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jun 2026
A dead dusky morwong (Dactylophora nigricans) lies on a bed of seaweed at the water’s edge.

A year on, Australia’s biggest harmful algal bloom continues to wreak havoc

Nick Rodway 8 Jun 2026
Giant soft coral in South Korea

‘Slumping’ afflicted soft corals around a South Korean island in 2024. Will it return this year?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Jun 2026

US set to hold latest oil and gas lease sale for Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Associated Press 5 Jun 2026

Scientists warn of climate blind spot as U.S. dismantles ocean sensors

Naina Rao 4 Jun 2026
Harsh sun floods the homes of local families. Their belongings are either stored away or ruined by the storm. Family artifacts and heirlooms now litter living spaces as jagged wood hangs from rafters. Image by World Central Kitchen via Flickr (CC BY 4.0).

From the wreckage of Super Typhoon Sinlaku, Pacific Islanders slowly recover

Anita Hofschneider 3 Jun 2026

Solar power brings energy to rural Indonesia, but inequality remains

Mongabay.com 3 Jun 2026
Creek in the Colombian Amazon. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

From pledges to road maps, nations organize around fossil fuel phaseout

Mike DiGirolamo 2 Jun 2026
Will Hackman at an Earth Day event in Washington, D.C. He argues that effective climate messaging should be framed around protecting people and communities, rather than saving the planet. Photo courtesy of Will Hackman.

New book offers tips to translate climate science into political gains

David Akana 2 Jun 2026
Harbor seals

Fisheries and climate research would be hit hard in Trump’s proposed budget

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Jun 2026
Atlantic Puffin, Norway. Image courtesy of Ujval Pasupuleti / Ocean Image Bank.

Uncertainty about weakening Atlantic currents isn’t a reason to wait but to act (commentary)

Helen Findlay 2 Jun 2026
Aerial view of a peatland forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Image by Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace.

World Peatland Day honors a crucial ecosystem in the fight against climate change

Bobby Bascomb 2 Jun 2026

Intense heat during Mecca’s spring threatens millions of Hajj pilgrims

Naina Rao 1 Jun 2026
A cornfield flooded with salts in the eastern United States. Crops didn’t survive in the low-elevation sections of the field, which abuts a tidal wetland. Image courtesy of Jarrod Miller/Delmarva Saltwater Intrusion.

Risk of saltwater intrusion into coastal groundwater spans the globe: Study

Edward Carver 28 May 2026
Polar bear on Kolyuchin Island in far-eastern Russia. Images © Vadim Makhorov/Associated Press.

Polar bears off the ice: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 26 May 2026
Carrying a solar panel in Malawi. Image by Jon Strand via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

China solar exports hit all-time record in March as Africa, Asia demand jumps

Shanna Hanbury 25 May 2026

West Asia conflict brings Norwegian marine research vessel back to Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 23 May 2026
Lake Victoria in Kenya. Image by Jozef020 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Kenyan communities protest planned nuclear plant near Lake Victoria

Elodie Toto 22 May 2026

In Kyrgyzstan, a climate-ready corridor gives snow leopards and herders room to roam

Liz Kimbrough 22 May 2026
A Khudi Bari built by residents living along the Jamuna River. Image courtesy of Tabassaum Studio.

In flood-prone Bangladesh, tiny homes are built to move with the river

Mongabay.com 21 May 2026

Climate change triples chance of deadly 2026 South Asia pre-monsoon heatwave: Report

Naina Rao 21 May 2026

New conservation effort launched to protect coral reefs in Yap

Naina Rao 21 May 2026
A farmer collects dried salt from his field, carefully filling baskets to store them in nearby pits for processing.

Bangladesh salt farmers struggle as climate shifts disrupt harvests

Sifayet Ullah 20 May 2026
This elusive animal hunts in the dim light of dawn and dusk, making it difficult to observe and hard to count. One of the few ways to survey them is by laying nets, pictured here.

An Australian icon, the platypus is struggling — and scientists still lack answers

Paul Harvey 20 May 2026

FIFA’s World Cup heat measures may not go far enough, expert warns

Naina Rao 18 May 2026

New energy deals for Africa sealed at Nairobi summit

David Akana 15 May 2026

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