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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

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

Malavika Vyawahare 24 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 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
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

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

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