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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
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

Sugarcane megaproject poses latest threat to Papua’s forests, communities

Hans Nicholas Jong, Sarjan Lahay 19 Jun 2024
Ecosystem destruction on Borneo peatlands.

Better accounting of peat and mangrove carbon to help Indonesia’s climate policies

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jun 2024
A phytoplankton bloom in the Baltic Sea captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

Can iron fertilization of the oceans help solve the climate crisis? (commentary)

Dr. David Koweek, Dr. Sara Nawaz 10 Jun 2024

Death and displacement as fatal storms hit Sri Lanka

Mongabay.com 7 Jun 2024

Water is key as study shows restoration of drained tropical peat is possible

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jun 2024

Indigenous Alaskans drive research in a melting arctic

Gabe Allen 4 Jun 2024

Alaska’s Arctic rivers turn rusty orange as permafrost thaws

Liz Kimbrough 31 May 2024
Fire fighters cooling burnt peatlands.

Floods set to worsen on Sumatra peat as landscape gives way

Suryadi 30 May 2024
Alson Kelen on a U.S. airstrip runway. Image by Mark Klett/Cape Farewell.

Marshallese worries span decades — first nuclear tests, now sea-level rise

Amélie David 29 May 2024

Pressure grows on banks to end business with Indonesian coal giant Adaro

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 May 2024
A multilayered lenticular cloud hovers near Mount Discovery, a volcano about 70 km (44 mi) southwest of McMurdo Station in Antarctica.

Polar warning: Warming temperatures mean more than melted ice

Elizabeth Devitt 27 May 2024
Tropical forest in Panama. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Cutting forests for solar energy ‘misses the plot’ on climate action (commentary)

Judith D. Schwartz 24 May 2024
Farming in Myanmar

Will the Mekong and Salween pay the price of China’s energy transition?

Carolyn Cowan 22 May 2024

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