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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
Drone view of flooded forest in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

On Amazon destruction, will Brazil President Lula’s ‘disinformation space’ be penetrated? (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 22 May 2025

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

Ambiental Media 21 May 2025
A man herds goats in the town of Gotu in Isiolo county, Kenya. Image by Ashoka Mukpo/Mongabay.

Kenyan soil carbon project suspended for a second time

Ashoka Mukpo 15 May 2025
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Banten Province, Indonesia.

Flawed energy road map may block Indonesia’s coal exit, critics warn

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 May 2025

Even in intact Amazon forests, climate change affects bird populations: Study

Suzana Camargo 14 May 2025
Smoke from a factory.

Ground-level ozone wreaks havoc on warming planet

Mongabay.com 9 May 2025

Indonesia’s gas bet poses risks for economy, health and climate

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 May 2025

Winter warming and rain extreme events pose overlooked threat to Arctic life

Elizabeth Devitt 2 May 2025
Ecuador's Tapichalaca Reserve, created by Jocotoco Conservation Foundation.

How to conserve species in a much hotter world

Mongabay.com 29 Apr 2025
Drought in Bangladesh.

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

John Cannon 24 Apr 2025

Indonesia defies global coal retreat with captive plant boom

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Apr 2025

Agroforestry can reduce deforestation, but supportive policies matter, study finds

Carolyn Cowan 21 Apr 2025
A young orangutan grasps and hangs on to a woody liana.

Nature on the move: How conservation must adapt to survive

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 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

Elevator to extinction (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 16 Apr 2025
Banner image of a mother and a child protecting themselves from the heat during the 2024 heatwave in New Delhi. Image by Sanshey Biswas/In Old News via Flickr (CCBY2.0)

Heat wave scorches parts of India with record temperatures

Kristine Sabillo 11 Apr 2025
Dugong in Thailand

Dugong numbers plummet amid seagrass decline in Thailand’s Andaman Sea

Carolyn Cowan 10 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
Harvested American ginseng.

As US agroforestry grows, federal funding freeze leaves farmers in the lurch

Sarah Derouin 1 Apr 2025
Polar bear mother with two cubs on a snowy sandbank in northern Alaska.

Polar sea ice continues steep decline; but will a troubled world notice?

Elizabeth Devitt 27 Mar 2025

Expedition links Antarctic glacial melting to climate catastrophe in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 26 Mar 2025
Banner image of people on a Sydney beach on a hot summer day. Image by Neerav Bhatt via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Hotter weather threatens heart health, Australian study warns

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Mar 2025
The Stanley Plateau glacier in 2022. Africa’s remaining tropical glaciers are rapidly disappearing. Image courtesy of Project Pressure.

Africa’s last tropical glaciers are melting away along with local livelihoods

Sean Mowbray 21 Mar 2025
A ceremonial glacier graveyard in Iceland.

With climate change, cryosphere melt scales up as a threat to planetary health

Sean Mowbray 21 Mar 2025

‘Sustainable’ palm oil firms continue illegal peatland clearing despite permit revocation

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Mar 2025
Image of a board at the entrance to Aravalli Biodiversity Park in New Delhi. Image by ccarlstead via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

New Delhi transforms degraded lands into biodiversity parks

Mongabay.com 19 Mar 2025
Banner image of damaged causeway after Cyclone Alfred, by Aliceinthealice via Wikimedia Commons (CC0).

Australia faces inflation, agriculture losses after Cyclone Alfred

Kristine Sabillo 18 Mar 2025
Haze rising from an oil palm plantation and forest in Riau province.

Political appointments in Indonesian climate program spark outcry over accountability

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Mar 2025
Five-day accumulated rainfall from Feb. 16-20, 2025, over Botswana. Image courtesy of World Weather Attribution.

Deadly Botswana rains made more likely by climate change, rapid urbanization

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Mar 2025
Aerial view of coal mining in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo.

Indonesia’s coal gasification reboot faces backlash over economic, environmental risks

Basten Gokkon 13 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

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