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Indigenous women of Guatemala’s Polochic Valley

Here’s how to reform multilateral funding to get more money directly to communities (commentary)

Sushil Raj | Minnie Degawan | Rony Brodsky 23 Oct 2024
Trees cut down for biomass.

Biomass power grows in Japan despite new understanding of climate risks

Annelise Giseburt 29 Jul 2024
A climate change protest in the U.S. in 2017.

Experts highlight importance of ‘prebunking’ to combat climate disinformation

Choki Wangmo 10 May 2024
Voters in West Bengal's Dinhata constituency, adjacent to Bangladesh, in 2016.

From polling stations to weather stations, the heat is on in India (commentary)

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 9 May 2024

‘Our rights are on trial in Brazil’: Interview with Indigenous movement pioneer Brasílio Priprá

Amanda Magnani 6 May 2024

Brazil cattle traceability program to limit deforestation in Pará state

Maxwell Radwin 4 Dec 2023

African leaders & activists will bring new demands, hopes to COP28

Abdulkareem Mojeed 29 Nov 2023
Nnimmo Bassey and the team at the spill site at Eteo community in Ogoni, Rivers State.

Stop playing politics with climate change: Q&A with Nigeria’s Nnimmo Bassey

Abdulkareem Mojeed 17 Oct 2023
Hervé Berville, France’s state secretary for the sea.

‘The deep sea is vital to protect the ocean’: Q&A with France’s Hervé Berville

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Aug 2023
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell briefing the press on the opening day of the conference.

U.N. climate chief calls for end to fossil fuels as talks head to Dubai

John Cannon 8 Jun 2023

EU parliament passes historic law forcing companies to track deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 20 Apr 2023

Mexico kills climate change fund, casting doubt on future environmental spending

Maxwell Radwin 13 Apr 2023
A man fishing in a lake.

From declining deforestation to quitting coal, Indonesia marks a pivotal 2022

Isabel Esterman 30 Dec 2022

COP27 boosts carbon trading and ‘non-market’ conservation: But can they save forests?

Alec Luhn 22 Nov 2022

COP27 long on pledges, short on funds for forests — Congo Basin at risk

Alec Luhn 18 Nov 2022

COP27: ‘Brazil is back’ to fight deforestation, Lula says, but hurdles await

Alec Luhn 17 Nov 2022
French President Emmanuel Macron.

France’s Macron joins growing chorus calling for deep-sea mining ban

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Nov 2022
A truck carrying acacia logs in Indonesia

Biomass cofiring loopholes put coal on open-ended life support in Asia

Annelise Giseburt 29 Aug 2022
Drought in India.

What’s the chance of meeting Paris climate goal? Just 0.1%, study says

Mongabay.com 29 Aug 2022
Rainwater harvesting in a coastal town in Bangladesh.

Are Bangladesh’s development measures leading to climate change readiness or maladaptation? (commentary)

Saleemul Huq | Savio Rousseau Rozario | Md. Bodrud-Doza 18 Aug 2022
Loggers cut down a tree with a chainsaw.

Australian miner threatens lawsuit against PNG for scrapping carbon scheme

Rachel Donald 15 Aug 2022
Smoke from a factory in Turkey

Turkey’s authoritarian development ignores planetary boundaries

Clément Girardot 21 Jul 2022
Wood chips for biomass burning at Tofte, Norway. Image by Statkraft via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

As biomass burning surges in Japan and South Korea, where will Asia get its wood?

Annelise Giseburt 19 May 2022
Timber for biomass burning at Tofte, Norway

Missing the emissions for the trees: Biomass burning booms in East Asia

Justin Catanoso 11 May 2022

IPCC report calls for ‘immediate and deep’ carbon cuts to slow climate change

John Cannon 5 Apr 2022

NGOs alert U.N. to furtive 2-million-hectare carbon deal in Malaysian Borneo

John Cannon 17 Mar 2022

Analysis: Elite power struggle sees Vietnam abandon coal, but leaves collateral damage

David Brown 15 Mar 2022

Efforts to dim Sun and cool Earth must be blocked, say scientists

Shanna Hanbury 24 Jan 2022

In Africa, temperatures rise, but adaptation lags on West’s funding failure

Mongabay.com 19 Jan 2022

Indonesia’s clean energy transition must start with clean rivers (commentary)

Warief Djajanto Basorie 11 Jan 2022
Mangrove forest Kenya

Community project helps Kenya aim for climate goals one mangrove tree at a time

Joyce Chimbi 10 Jan 2022

Mali’s centuries-old pastoralist traditions wilt as the climate changes

Malavika Vyawahare 31 Dec 2021

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