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Patagonia fires reignite debate over Argentina’s underfunded environmental agencies

Maxwell Radwin 26 Jan 2026
Neighborhood affected by floods in Arroio do Meio, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Image courtesy of Ricardo Stuckert/Brazil federal government.

Many Amazon climate disasters are missing from official records, study finds

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2026

In Brazil, planting forests for carbon credits could help ecosystem restoration

Constance Malleret 23 Jan 2026
Participants of Terra Madre Asia Pacific celebrate day 5 of the regional 'good food' event. Image courtesy of Slow Food.

Philippines hosts new Asia-Pacific hub for sustainable agriculture, cuisine

Keith Anthony Fabro 21 Jan 2026

Critical wetland in Angola gets formal Ramsar recognition

Ryan Truscott 21 Jan 2026
Soil microbes. Invisible to the naked eye, microbial communities play a huge role in planetary processes, such as nutrient cycling, and are vital to ecosystem and human health.

IUCN launches group to conserve at-risk microbes vital to life on Earth

Sean Mowbray 21 Jan 2026

Overuse is pushing the world toward ‘water bankruptcy’

Bobby Bascomb 21 Jan 2026
Farmers on a 1.6-hectare (4-acre) plot of oranges, avocado, maize and vegetables in Kenya.

Earth Rover Program seeks to track the world’s soil health

John Cannon 21 Jan 2026
After a game of beach footvolley on a sweltering hot day in Beirut, Lebanon, a man cools off by pouring water on himself.

2025 was third-warmest year on record, research shows

Shanna Hanbury 20 Jan 2026
Pattie Gonia. Image by Evan Benally Atwood, courtesy of Pattie Gonia.

Drag artist Pattie Gonia on why nature advocacy needs joy to succeed

Mike DiGirolamo, Basten Gokkon 20 Jan 2026

The knowledge to save coffee already exists, now it’s in one e-library

Bobby Bascomb 20 Jan 2026
Study co-lead author Luke Jeffrey climbs a tree in a melaleuca wetland forest to measure microbial community gas fluxes.

Hidden heroes: Australian tree bark microbes consume greenhouse & toxic gases

Ruth Kamnitzer 16 Jan 2026

Flores’ geothermal ambitions collide with justice, culture & local resistance

Basten Gokkon 16 Jan 2026
A crew prepares the ground for electric poles near homes destroyed by the Pacific Palisades Fire in Malibu, California, U.S., in January 2025. Image by AP Photo/Richard Vogel.

Ocean set ‘alarming’ new temperature record in 2025

Edward Carver 16 Jan 2026

A novel sanctuary in Antarctica is preserving ice samples from rapidly melting glaciers

Associated Press 15 Jan 2026

Indonesia backs away from coal exit test case amid financial and political pushback

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jan 2026
Margerie Glacier in Alaska in 2007. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

What can—and cannot—be done to save the world’s glaciers

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Jan 2026
A man inspects logs near several wood pellet production companies in Gorontalo province, October 2024.

After years of progress, Indonesia risks ‘tragedy’ of a deforestation spike

Jeff Hutton 14 Jan 2026
A purse seiner targeting Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico. Image courtesy of Andre Boustany.

Study tracks fishing boats to see how heat waves affect fish distribution

Edward Carver 13 Jan 2026

Measuring biodiversity in a world of tree-planting pledges

Ruth Kamnitzer 12 Jan 2026

Silvopasture gains momentum in the Amazon, but can it shrink beef’s footprint?

Charlie Espinosa 12 Jan 2026
Methane bubbles flow in small streams out of seafloor sediment offshore of Virginia, north of Washington Canyon. Quill worms, anemones and patches of microbial mat can be seen in and along the periphery of the seepage area.

Methane chasers: Hunting a climate-changing gas seeping from Earth’s seafloor

Elizabeth Devitt 8 Jan 2026
A community settlement in Pidie Jaya Regency, destroyed by flooding.

Indonesia launches sweeping environmental audits after Sumatra flood disaster

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jan 2026
In this aerial photo taken using a drone, people are seen making their way on a muddy road at a village affected by a flash flood in Batang Toru, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. Photo credit: AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara

After Cyclone Senyar, Indonesia probes whether development amplified scale of disaster

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jan 2026

Deep-sea ‘hotels’ reveal 20 new species hiding in Pacific Ocean twilight zone near Guam

Liz Kimbrough 31 Dec 2025
A barn owl hunting for fleeing prey along a fire’s periphery.

How are California’s birds faring amid ever more frequent wildfires?

Gloria Dickie 31 Dec 2025

Cyclone-ravaged Sri Lanka set to apply for ‘loss and damage’ funding

Malaka Rodrigo 31 Dec 2025
A woman stands near a shop damaged during a flood in Aceh province, Indonesia, Nov. 29, 2025.

Indonesia closes 2025 with rising disasters and stalled environmental reform

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Dec 2025
Tropical peatland clearance in Riau, Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Ditches on peatland oil palm plantations are an overlooked source of methane: Study

John Cannon 30 Dec 2025

Photos: Top new species from 2025

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2025
Banner image: A saffron crocus (Crocus sativus). Image by Nick Perla via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0)

Striking ‘red gold’ with saffron farming in Algeria: Interview with Keltouma Adouane

Anna Weekes 29 Dec 2025

Beyond human loss, floods from Cyclone Ditwah devastate Sri Lanka’s wildlife

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Dec 2025

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