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Beach heat: Study shows increasing temperature extremes on Brazil’s coast

Luís Patriani 17 Aug 2023
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Cilegon city, Banten Province, Indonesia.

Have coal, will use it: Indonesia’s climate stance raises questions

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Aug 2023

Captive to coal: Indonesia to burn even more fossil fuel for green tech

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Aug 2023
Indigenous leader Alessandra Korap Munduruku confronted Anglo American over its attempts to mine on protected Indigenous land, leading the mining giant to withdraw its prospecting applications. Image courtesy of the Goldman Environmental Prize.

Three new studies on Indigenous conservation for International Indigenous Peoples Day

Sandra Cuffe 9 Aug 2023
An Old English Longhorn at Knepp. Disturbance from large herbivores has restored this landscape by reactivating natural processes that foster healthy ecology.

From debt to diversity: A journey of rewilding, carbon capture and hope

Elizabeth Fitt 9 Aug 2023
Ponkar Lake is a moraine-dammed glacial lake in Bimthang Valley in Manang, Nepal. Image courtesy of Sudan Bikash Maharjan/ICIMOD.

Nepal’s climate change adaptation strategy needs One Health approach (commentary)

Krishna Prasad Acharya, Shamsudeen Fagbo 4 Aug 2023
Women picking the nutritionally rich baobab fruits in Ghana.

Progress is slow on Africa’s Great Green Wall, but some bright spots bloom

Spoorthy Raman 3 Aug 2023

World’s top sovereign fund latest to cut ties with dam in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Jul 2023

Muslim women’s group to reopen oxygen homes if Indonesia wildfires intensify

Mongabay Haze Beat 24 Jul 2023

Green gains: Localized efforts leave a mark, notably in drier areas, study shows

Malavika Vyawahare 24 Jul 2023
Tropical forest in the Amazon.

Drought cycles erode tropics’ ability to absorb CO₂, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Jul 2023
A forest in Indonesia.

Asian Development Bank’s climate commitments require greater accountability (commentary)

Radhika Goyal 12 Jul 2023
Washington Square Park is another place to see birds in NYC.

Five ways to increase tree cover in cities (commentary)

Evan Beresford 6 Jul 2023
A firefighter puts out fires in a peatland in Indonesia.

With El Niño likely, Indonesia’s volunteer firefighters gear up — with new gear

Mongabay Haze Beat 4 Jul 2023
A seagrass meadow in St Michaels Mount, Cornwall. Image courtesy of Lewis Jefferies.

Blue carbon deserves a green light for the climate fight (commentary)

Steve Trent 3 Jul 2023
The Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Indonesia

Indonesia’s coal burning hits record high — and ‘green’ nickel is largely why

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Jul 2023
A male gharial guarding hatchlings.

Death of rare male gharial in Nepal highlights conservation crisis

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jun 2023
Off Saint Raphaël at a depth of 70 meters a vast underwater forest of red gorgonians (Paramuricea clavata)

New hope in the Mediterranean: Scientists find deep corals withstand heat waves

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 28 Jun 2023
Aerial view of an area in the Amazon deforested for cattle ranching -- the biggest driver of deforestation in the Amazon -- in Lábrea, Amazonas state on Sep 15, 2021. Photo © Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance)

New data show 10% increase in primary tropical forest loss in 2022

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Jun 2023
A silkworm farmer from Rajshahi, Bangladesh.

Extreme temperatures and erratic weather disrupt Bangladesh’s famous Rajshahi silk industry

Abu Siddique 26 Jun 2023

The climate is already changing in the Matopiba, Brazil’s new agricultural frontier

Evanildo da Silveira 26 Jun 2023

Projects in Brazil’s Caatinga biome combine conservation and climate adaptation

Kevin Damasio 23 Jun 2023

Indonesian coal giant Adaro’s ‘sustainable’ smelter slammed as ‘greenwashing’

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jun 2023
A penguin.

Antarctic warming alters atmosphere, ice shelves, ocean & animals

Juliette Portala 12 Jun 2023
Clouds reflected in a lake in the Amazon Rainforest.

We must center gender and community rights for climate action (commentary)

Coraina de la Plaza, Valentina Figuera Martínez 8 Jun 2023
Burned peat forest in Borneo.

Peatlands, Indonesia’s carbon trove, are mostly unprotected, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Jun 2023
A view over Brazil’s Florestal Reserve Adolpho Ducke.

Protected areas store a year’s worth of CO₂ emissions, study reveals

Sean Mowbray 2 Jun 2023
A farmer plants rice in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Deforestation linked to less rainfall, study shows; El Niño could make it worse

Jewel S. Cabrera 26 May 2023

Indonesian project shows how climate funding can — and should — go directly to IPLCs

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 May 2023
A girl with avocados

In Indonesia, clouds form over East Java’s promising band of avocado growers

Asad Asnawi 16 May 2023

Australia bushfires may have caused global climate phenomenon La Niña: Study

Mongabay Haze Beat 11 May 2023
A man in the western Chuadanga district splashes water on his face from an irrigation pump to get relief from the heat.

‘Alarming’ heat wave threatens Bangladesh’s people and their food supply

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 28 Apr 2023

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