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

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 May 2023
Cyclone Gabrielle hit New Zealand, bringing devastating floods and powerful winds

After historic storm in New Zealand, Māori leaders call for disaster relief and rights

Joseph Lee 21 Apr 2023
"Deregulated" depicts men in suits playing in a children’s playground as part of a series of sculptures by Jason deCaires Taylor installed in the sea near the Canary Islands.

Is there a ‘lighter side’ to our possible environmental apocalypse? (commentary)

David Helvarg 12 Apr 2023
Greenfaith representatives attending as a multifaith delegation at Stop Line 3 pipeline protests in Minnesota. Image courtesy of Nana Firman.

A Ramadan reflection on Islam and climate action (commentary)

Memona Hossain 11 Apr 2023
Gas-fueled power plant in Riau, Indonesia. Image courtesy of PLN.

Indonesia’s Just Energy Transition Partnership must increase transparency (commentary)

Firdaus Cahyadi 7 Apr 2023
Coal on a barge near Tanjung Redeb, East Kalimantan.

U.S. firm quits Indonesian gasification project in major blow to coal ambitions

Nithin Coca 4 Apr 2023
A Baird's tapir walking at night through her natural habitat.

Rewilding animals could be key for climate: Report

Liz Kimbrough 30 Mar 2023
A polar bear surveys its icy Arctic surroundings.

Southern atmospheric rivers drive irreversible melting of Arctic sea ice: Study

Alec Luhn 23 Mar 2023
Soraida Chindoy, 38, Indigenous leader from the Inga community of the Condagua reservation. She has been part of the movement to stop the mining project from the beginning. Image by Antonio Cascio for Mongabay.

Plan to mine ‘clean energy’ metals in Colombian Amazon splits communities

Natalia Torres Garzón 22 Mar 2023
Jaguar in a river in Mexico. Photo credit: Gerardo Ceballos

In Calakmul, water troughs offer possible solution to human-wildlife conflict

Sean Mowbray 22 Mar 2023
On 22 June 2022 the farmers protest started in the Netherlands. Tractors from all over the country drove to Stroe. This picture was taken along the A27 near Houten, just in front of the Lunetten interchange. Image by Frank Magdelyns from Pixabay.

For Dutch farming crisis, agroforestry offers solutions: Q&A with Lennart Fuchs & Marc Buiter

Peter Speetjens 21 Mar 2023
The Kargi people, a remote nomadic settlement in Kenya. Image by Ian Macharia via Unsplash.

Cultural heritage is an essential resource for climate change science too, reports say

Ian Morse 14 Mar 2023
Gas-fueled power plant in Riau, Indonesia. Image courtesy of PLN.

Indonesia aims to use gas in foreign-funded energy transition; critics cry foul

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Mar 2023
An oil palm plantation and natural forest in Jambi, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Conservationists decry palm oil giants’ exit from HCSA forest protection group

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Mar 2023

Three small steps for mankind, one giant leap for the climate

Juliette Portala 2 Mar 2023
The daily livestock market in Lodwar, Turkana County's biggest business hub. Image by Kang-Chun Cheng.

‘During droughts, pivot to agroecology’: Q&A with soil expert at the World Agroforestry Centre

Kang-Chun Cheng 28 Feb 2023
Aerial image of a reforestation program in the DRC.

Carbon market intermediaries act with little transparency, according to report

John Cannon 24 Feb 2023
Common bluestripe snapper in the Coral Triangle. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Machine learning makes long-term, expansive reef monitoring possible

Basten Gokkon 23 Feb 2023
Tropical flora in Wayqecha cloud forests in Andes, Peru.

Carbon uptake in tropical forests withers in drier future: Study

John Cannon 23 Feb 2023
Rivers of metlwater on Greenland's ice sheet

‘Not a good sign’: Study shows Greenland temperatures at 1,000-year high

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Feb 2023
The Pesalat Reforestation Project

Carbon markets entice, but confuse, corporations: Report

John Cannon 31 Jan 2023

The EU banned Russian wood pellet imports; South Korea took them all

Justin Catanoso 24 Jan 2023
A U.S. agroforestry based farm shows rows of perennial shrubs and trees with annual crops growing between. Photo courtesy of the Savanna Institute.

‘One of our greatest climate solutions’: Q&A with the U.S. National Agroforestry Center’s new director

Sarah Derouin 19 Jan 2023
Kenya Red Cross volunteer rescuing a resident.

Humanitarian experts report ‘cascading crises’ as climate, health emergencies soar

Mactilda Mbenywe 18 Jan 2023
A tiger leaping.

The tiger in the snow: Cameras capture abundance of life in a Himalayan refuge

Abhaya Raj Joshi 13 Jan 2023
Parmet with his youngest son, Zaidimu.

Extreme heat takes a toll on tropical countries’ economies

Calvin Rock Odhiambo 13 Jan 2023
Wood chips piled in mounds more than 6 meters (20 feet) high cover the lot of the Enviva wood pellet plant in Ahoskie, North Carolina. Enviva says that it uses wood waste to produce pellets. The whistleblower and Mongabay’s on site investigation at a North Carolina clear-cut site and at the Ahoskie plant provided evidence to the contrary. Image by Justin Catanoso for Mongabay.

The Netherlands to stop paying subsidies to ‘untruthful’ biomass firms

Justin Catanoso 23 Dec 2022

Australia rejects forest biomass in first blow to wood pellet industry

Justin Catanoso 21 Dec 2022

Bolivia looks to opaque methods, firms to build lithium powerhouse

Ian Morse 12 Dec 2022

As EU finalizes renewable energy plan, forest advocates condemn biomass

Justin Catanoso 7 Dec 2022
Aerial photo of riparian forest and deforestation for soy.

‘Amazing first step’ as EU law cracks down on deforestation-linked imports

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Dec 2022
A deforestated site in Edenton, North Carolina.

Whistleblower: Enviva claim of ‘being good for the planet… all nonsense’

Justin Catanoso 5 Dec 2022

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