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Sunset and a Maersk container ship.

Shipping emissions reduction sheds light on marine cloud geoengineering

Claire Asher 13 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

African leaders at COP29 demand funding without further debt

David Akana 12 Nov 2024
Banner image of a coral reef in Indonesia by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

New ‘Cali Fund’ plans to make companies pay for benefiting from nature

Kristine Sabillo 12 Nov 2024

At COP29, US envoy upbeat despite looming climate policy changes

David Akana 11 Nov 2024
COP29 entry at Baku.

COP29: With public climate finance shortfall, is investment capital a way forward?

Justin Catanoso 11 Nov 2024
Families are migrating from Gardi Sugdub, a tiny island belonging to the Indigenous Guna Yala people of Panama, packed with houses to the edge of the water, due to sea level rise.

What Indigenous leaders want from the COP29 U.N. climate conference

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 11 Nov 2024
Banner image of a curlew sandpiper, courtesy of Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok/BirdLife International.

Shorebird populations drop globally, some by a third: Report

Kristine Sabillo 11 Nov 2024

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

Justin Catanoso 8 Nov 2024
A sea turtle

How the oceans fared at the COP16 biodiversity conference in Colombia

John Cannon 8 Nov 2024

Brazil calls for ambition at COP but struggles over its own climate policy

Fernanda Wenzel 8 Nov 2024

New Canadian-backed potash mine under fire from Amazon Indigenous groups

Aimee Gabay 7 Nov 2024
Wild male saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) visiting a waterhole at the Stepnoi Sanctuary, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. Photo credit: Andrey Giljov [CC BY-SA 4.0]

Earthshot Prize names 5 winners working on environmental solutions

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Nov 2024
Banner image of dholes recorded via camera trap in CCML in 2024, courtesy of Conservation International.

Camera trap survey in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains finds 108 species

Kristine Sabillo 7 Nov 2024

African women’s assembly unites for climate justice

Fanta Mabo 6 Nov 2024
A U.S. dairy farm. Global methane emissions have increased rapidly over the past five years.

Atmospheric methane removal: A promising but challenging climate solution

Sean Mowbray 6 Nov 2024
Boreal Forest Fire in Canada by Markus Mauthe/Greenpeace

Forest fires outside tropics drove 60% CO2 surge since 2001: Study

Kristine Sabillo 6 Nov 2024
Banner image of bats in a Malaysian limestone cave. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Mountain highland bats lack data, face climate threats: Study

Kristine Sabillo 6 Nov 2024
Banner image of Indonesian rainforest by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Mining drove 1.4m hectares of forest loss in last 2 decades: Report

Kristine Sabillo 5 Nov 2024
Woman carrying a solar pannel near Yangambi, DRC.

Africa needs COP29 funding & international finance reform to manage climate change (commentary)

David Akana 4 Nov 2024
A fallen tree in the Amazon.

Brazil researchers boost timber traceability with new chemical analysis

Fernanda Wenzel 4 Nov 2024
Banner image of Super Typhoon Kong-Rey via PAGASA.

At least 146 dead in back-to-back tropical cyclones in Philippines

Kristine Sabillo 4 Nov 2024
The endangered African penguins (Spheniscus demersus)

Population crash means African penguins are now critically endangered

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2024

$100k prize awarded in honor of ‘father of biodiversity’ Thomas Lovejoy

Mongabay.com 1 Nov 2024

Karachi expected to receive 2.3 million climate migrants by 2050: Report

Waqas Alam Angaria 1 Nov 2024
Hyacinth-macaws-with-cattle

JBS broke its own rules while buying cattle from deforested areas in Pantanal

Naira Hofmeister, Fernanda Wenzel 31 Oct 2024

At least 94 dead as worst storm in decades hits Spain’s Valencia region

Shanna Hanbury 30 Oct 2024

COP16: ‘A fund unlike any other’ will pay tropical nations to save forests

Justin Catanoso 30 Oct 2024
Terrat residents at an entrepreneurship training facilitated by TACCEI. Image courtesy TACCEI.

For Tanzania’s Maasai, adapting to climate change may mean less livestock, more trees

Naomi Achieng' 30 Oct 2024
Wollastonite spreading in Canada.

Calls for caution as enhanced rock weathering shows carbon capture promise

Sean Mowbray 29 Oct 2024
Drax is the largest consumer of wood pellets for energy in the UK.

Action against forest biomass subsidies gains momentum at COP16

Justin Catanoso 29 Oct 2024

For DRC’s artisanal miners, promise of formalization has yielded little

Didier Makal 29 Oct 2024

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