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Campaigners in The Hague, Netherlands, where the ICJ gave its advisory opinion. Image courtesy of Tengbeh Kamara/Greenpeace.

Historic court ruling says countries legally bound to prevent climate harm

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Jul 2025

The world’s children suffer brunt of wildfire smoke health impacts

Anna Dulisse 14 Jul 2025
Using the law to save the planet | Against All Odds

Youth and women find success in taking climate cases to court

Mongabay.com 9 Jul 2025
Banner image of a flare stack by Yerevan Malarerva via Pexels.

UN rapporteur calls for ban on fossil fuel ads and criminalizing of disinformation

Kristine Sabillo 7 Jul 2025
Banner image of smokestacks by Pixabay via Pexels (Public domain).

Catholic bishops from Global South call for ambitious climate action ahead of COP30

Kristine Sabillo 2 Jul 2025
Indigenous leaders at the first congress in Brazzaville. Image by Maribel Arango.

First congress of forest basin leaders results in call for direct financing

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 24 Jun 2025
Banner image of drought in Brazil in 2023. Image by AP Photo/Edmar Barros.

Vatican-backed report calls for global debt relief amid climate crisis

Kristine Sabillo 20 Jun 2025
A coal miner walking barefoot through heaps of coal dust at a coal mine and processing plant, Jharkand, India. Image courtesy of Rajesh Kumar Singh / Climate Visuals Countdown.

At COP30 & beyond, the fight for climate justice must end corporate impunity (commentary)

Pablo Fajardo 17 Jun 2025
California Wildfires in August 2018.

Climate futures: What’s ahead for our world beyond 1.5°C of warming?

Claire Asher 12 Jun 2025
Banner image of a glacier in Greenland from NASA Earth Observatory via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain).

Record-breaking heat wave due to climate change hits Iceland & Greenland: Scientists

Kristine Sabillo 11 Jun 2025
Students in Afghanistan walk to school in a sand storm during a drought in 2019.

Climate futures: World leaders’ failure to act is pushing Earth past 1.5°C

Claire Asher 11 Jun 2025
Community-led urban gardens have long existed in the city of Salvador in Brazil.

Real-world return on climate adaption investments wildly underestimated, report finds

Justin Catanoso 10 Jun 2025
White rhyolite spires on the shores of Jodogahama Beach in Miyako, Japan. Iwate prefecture. These spires are estimated to be around 45 million years old, and form a natural version of a Japanese garden. This beach is part of the Sanriku Fukkō National Park. It was incorporated into this national park as a reconstruction effort following the Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. Photo by Mike DiGirolamo/Mongabay.

Kim Stanley Robinson on how his novel ‘Ministry for the Future’ holds lessons for the present

Mike DiGirolamo 3 Jun 2025
Banner image: Photos of human rights lawyer Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca, who disappeared last year in Mexico. Photo by Luis Rojas via Global Witness.

Environmental defenders targeted in 3 out of 4 human rights attacks: Report

Kristine Sabillo 23 May 2025

Extreme heat, violent storms: How Rio de Janeiro is facing its new climate reality

Ambiental Media 21 May 2025
Aftermath of the Mariana Dam collapse in Minas Gerais.

Report urges stricter mining standards to manage climate and social impacts

Aimee Gabay 9 May 2025
Drought in Bangladesh.

Global warming hits hardest for those who can’t escape it

John Cannon 24 Apr 2025
Pope Francis, 1936-2025.

Pope Francis’ uncompromising defense of nature may be his greatest legacy

Justin Catanoso 24 Apr 2025
Banner image of Pope Francis at Tacloban airport, courtesy of Benhur Arcayan/Malacanang Photo Bureau (Public domain).

Remembering Pope Francis and his visit to typhoon-hit Philippines

Kristine Sabillo 24 Apr 2025
Banner image of quiver trees by Leonie Joubert for Mongabay.

Succulents die off with expanding desert in South Africa and Namibia

Mongabay.com 18 Apr 2025
Women in Timbul Seloko village, Central Java, help with the permeable dam project.

In an ancient Javanese sultanate, coastal women battle climate fallout

Irfan Maulana 16 Apr 2025
Corporations have devastated the livelihoods of fishing communities like Odimodi, by spilling crude oil, discharging toxic effluents, and gas flaring. Image via the Coalition for Human Rights in Development.

How communities in sacrifice zones suffer environmental injustices in Mexico, Chile, Nigeria and Indonesia (analysis)

Daniela Sepulveda and Angélica Arellano 9 Apr 2025
Banner image of Pasir Timbul in Raja Ampat, Indonesia, by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

122 companies responsible for a third of present day sea-level rise: Study

Kristine Sabillo 8 Apr 2025
Sumaco volcano in Ecuador at sunset. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Rethinking carbon: The climate movement needs to be a human one, says Paul Hawken

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 1 Apr 2025
A fisherman repairs his boat on a beach in Soomar Goth, Karachi.

In Pakistan, sea level rise & displacement follow fisherfolk wherever they go

Waqas Alam Angaria 28 Mar 2025
More than 200 people were killed in Valencia by the 2024 flood. The army joined rescue efforts in the worst flash floods ever to hit Spain, leaving victims in the ravaged region begging for aid.

A tale of two cities: What drove 2024’s Valencia and Porto Alegre floods?

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 12 Mar 2025
A housing project from the Sostre Civic housing cooperative in Barcelona. The residents pay below-market rates for units that cannot be bought or sold for a 75-year term. Image courtesy of Alvaro Alvarez.

‘Degrowth’ gains a foothold in Barcelona and support internationally

Mike DiGirolamo 4 Mar 2025

Many companies meet climate pledges on paper — not on the ground, analyst says

Mike DiGirolamo 18 Feb 2025
Researchers on one of the field visits to the Näätämö River, remote wilderness areas and the fjord at the outflow to the Arctic Ocean.

Researchers find microplastics for the first time in the Finnish Sámi waters

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 4 Feb 2025
Banner image of Tropical Cyclone Faida from the Met Office.

Cyclone Elvis kills 5 in Madagascar as another storm approaches

Kristine Sabillo 4 Feb 2025

Global temperature in 2024 hits record 1.55°C over pre-industrial level

Shanna Hanbury 14 Jan 2025
A firefighter in the Xingu Indigenous Territory.

World’s record heat is worsening air pollution and health in Global South

Simrin Sirur (with Orji Sunday and Karla Mendes) 13 Jan 2025

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