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A future where we might ‘get climate right’: A conversation with Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Sep 2024
A group of chinstrap penguins on pack ice on Seal Island in Antarctica.

Arctic sea ice hits summer minimum; Antarctic hovers at new winter lows

Elizabeth Devitt 24 Sep 2024

Heavy rains in Lake Chad Basin leave hundreds dead across countries

Shanna Hanbury 20 Sep 2024
A yellow oriental paper wasp (Polistes olivaceus)

Bats & bees help ni-Vanuatu predict storms — but will climate change interfere?

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 10 Sep 2024

Typhoon Yagi death toll reaches 82 after ripping through northern Vietnam

Shanna Hanbury 10 Sep 2024

Sumatra citizen lawsuit seeks accountability for haze-causing fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Sep 2024

Global carbon capture and storage potential way overblown, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 6 Sep 2024
Silhouette of a plane.

Will we be ready? Geoengineering policy lags far behind pace of climate change

Charles Pekow 26 Aug 2024

Fires devastate critical refuge for hyacinth macaws

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Aug 2024
Boys swim in the Buriganga River near Dhaka during a heat wave in May 2024.

Conserving & restoring waterways can mitigate extreme urban heat in Bangladesh

Riley Comstock 20 Aug 2024
Marcel König and Natascha Oppelt (both from the University of Kiel, Germany) measuring melt pond optical properties during RV Polarstern campaign PASCAL, north of Svalbard in June 2017.

Arctic melt ponds influence sea ice extent each summer — but how much?

Michael C. Bradbury 20 Aug 2024
The sea and the coastal residential land are affected by the waste of upstream nickel mining operations.

At-risk groups in Indonesia demand greater say in climate policymaking

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Aug 2024
The ocean

Cloud brightening over oceans may stave off climate change, but with risk

Sean Mowbray 12 Aug 2024

South Africa adopts a new climate change law

Bobby Bascomb 9 Aug 2024
Seema Devi and other women from her village line up at the aquifer beneath the newly constructed field that doubles as a helipad.

Uttarakhand villagers thirst for water as tourism, temps & development rise

Swati Thapa 9 Aug 2024
Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) is one of the best researched geoengineering strategies under consideration as a climate change “painkiller.”

Geoengineering gains momentum, but governance is lacking, critics say

Sean Mowbray 1 Aug 2024

Critically endangered North Atlantic right whale spotted near Ireland

Bobby Bascomb 31 Jul 2024

Saving Lake Victoria from plastic: Interview with Kenya’s teenage Muchilwa siblings

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 31 Jul 2024

Andrea Vidaurre: Leading the clean transportation revolution

Romi Castagnino 30 Jul 2024
Trees cut down for biomass.

Biomass power grows in Japan despite new understanding of climate risks

Annelise Giseburt 29 Jul 2024
Sun over a city skyline.

Don’t even study it: Geoengineering research hits societal roadblocks

Jeremy Hance 24 Jul 2024

Beleaguered Indonesian civil society gets lift in push for just energy transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jul 2024

As New England forests are razed for solar power, experts urge smarter siting

Mike DiGirolamo 23 Jul 2024
Silhouette of grain crops with the sun in the background.

Sun block: The promise and peril of solar geoengineering

Jeremy Hance 23 Jul 2024

Rare earth elements may be found in coal mines, study finds.

Bobby Bascomb 20 Jul 2024

The nine processes that keep Earth stable

Mongabay.com 20 Jul 2024
Image of houses inundated during Bangladesh 2020 floods.

Over 2 million people cut off by extreme rain in Bangladesh

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2024
Extreme heat in Mecca has led to deaths of over 1,300 pilgrims.

More than 1,300 Muslim pilgrims die in Mecca under 50C heat

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2024

Loopholes allow multilateral development banks to fund captive coal in Indonesia: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Jul 2024
A mariscadora uses a clam rake to dredge for shellfish off Cambados in Galicia. Image by Naomi Mihara for Mongabay

In northern Spain, climate change is killing shellfish — and women’s livelihoods

Naomi Mihara, Natalie Donback 29 Jun 2024

Mineral hotspots in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 27 Jun 2024

French court greenlights lawsuit against EDF over wind farm in Mexico

Chris Arsenault, Philippe Le Billon 26 Jun 2024

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