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Southeast Asian mangroves shift from historic decline to net growth

Naina Rao 13 Jul 2026
Seagrass meadows, pictured above, play a critical role in carbon sequestration and protecting coastlines.

Scientists use AI to produce first high-resolution map of global seagrass extent

Abhishyant Kidangoor 10 Jul 2026

In Honduras, solar power has done more harm than good, communities say

Maxwell Radwin 9 Jul 2026

Bangladesh relocates refugees after landslide kills at least 5 children

Associated Press 9 Jul 2026

As East Africa’s oceans change, coastal women build new livelihoods

Associated Press 6 Jul 2026
Residents of small farms in the rural area of Manoel Urbano, one of the state's epicenters of deforestation, fight a forest fire that started on the banks of the BR-364 federal highway. Acre State, Brazil. September 22 2025.These photographs are the first part of a new collection highlighting the impact of black carbon. The photographs are available for free non-profit, educational and editorial use via Climate Visuals. www.climatevisuals.org

Brazil boosts budget and number of firefighters amid strong El Niño forecast

Shanna Hanbury 6 Jul 2026

Tropical mountain wildlife are at high risk from climate change impacts, study finds

Bobby Bascomb 3 Jul 2026
A leafy sea dragon among seagrass in South Australia. Image by Jayne Jenkins / Ocean Image Bank

Australia’s seagrass meadows under pressure as climate change turns up the heat

Sean Mowbray 3 Jul 2026
An experimental line of orange corn enriched with provitamin A, harvested in Zambia. Photo by CIMMYT via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Zambia’s bumper harvest masks likely food insecurity amid geopolitics and climate threats

Chisapi Kumbutso 3 Jul 2026
The Congo Basin is home to critically endangered African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis).

Can selective logging help the Congo Basin store more carbon?

Claudia Geib 2 Jul 2026
Left to right, the Netherlands' Minister for Climate Policy and Green Growth, Stientje van Veldhoven; along with Colombia's Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Irene Vélez Torres; and Ana Toni, COP30 CEO, during the launch of the outcome report from the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels at the London Climate Action Week. Image courtesy of Wilder García/ Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia.

Santa Marta report by 57 nations defines rapid fossil fuel transition path

Julian Reingold 2 Jul 2026

Heat and pests are making it hard to grow a gourd that’s critical for Indian music

Mongabay.com 2 Jul 2026

Targeted conservation in Brazil could help protect the Amazon’s flying rivers

Constance Malleret 2 Jul 2026
Fire in a peat forest in Kalimantan. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

A possible strong El Niño fuels fears for fires across Indonesian tropical peatlands

Rendy Tisna 2 Jul 2026

Sri Lanka intensifies fight against dengue and the mosquitos that cause the infection

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 2 Jul 2026
Living seawalls panels in Cobh, Ireland

Can coastal infrastructure be engineered to harbor marine life instead of harming it?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 1 Jul 2026

Youth biodiversity conservation efforts face serious funding challenges, report finds

David Brown 1 Jul 2026
A woman collects water from a pond in Bangladesh, where drinkable water is becoming increasingly scarce due to salt contamination from sea level rise. Image courtesy of Abu Siddique.

Sea level rise is ruining coastal Bangladesh with salty water (commentary)

AL Sharia 1 Jul 2026

A marine heat wave caused seabird deaths off California. El Nino could worsen the die-off

Associated Press 1 Jul 2026
A Florida panther.

Wildlife’s unpredictable movements make climate-change planning difficult

Gloria Dickie 1 Jul 2026

Indonesia’s blackouts reignite debate over coal-dependent energy transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Jul 2026

Cypriot natural gas could start flowing from ExxonMobil’s discoveries by 2033

Associated Press 30 Jun 2026
Four men stand in muddy water holding a brown fishnet full of fish.

Aquatic animal and terrestrial meat trades now almost on par, FAO report finds

Elizabeth Fitt 29 Jun 2026

The Ideas Shaping Environmental Action

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 29 Jun 2026
A chicken farm in France. Image courtesy of the Brittany Chamber of Agriculture.

Extreme heat wave in France kills hundreds of thousands of poultry

Shanna Hanbury 26 Jun 2026

French court orders TotalEnergies to disclose climate impacts in vigilance plan

Victoria Schneider 26 Jun 2026
A Himalayan wolf.

How snow leopards, wolves and leopards share the same Himalayan valley, study

Liz Kimbrough 26 Jun 2026
Two images captured by LiDAR at different times and overlaid: one of young tree seedlings (pink), the other of the trees (blue) after two years of growth.

Laser scanning forests may boost carbon estimates, but credibility questions linger

Shradha Triveni 26 Jun 2026
Dang Dinh Bach speaking.

Vietnamese environmental lawyer Dang Dinh Bach released after 5 years in prison

Naina Rao 26 Jun 2026
Cocoa producer Giovanne holds a native Amazon species, which is naturally resistant to pests and extreme weather. Image by Cícero Pedrosa Neto.

Amazon floodplains cocoa offers a climate-resilient and sustainable chocolate

Sam Cowie, Cícero Pedrosa Neto 25 Jun 2026

Trump admin persists in quixotic quest against wind power despite legal defeat

Bobby Bascomb 25 Jun 2026

Not all coral reefs are doomed as a result of climate change, study suggests

Elodie Toto 25 Jun 2026

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