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Western Kenya’s most important water-capturing forest is disappearing, satellites show

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Nov 2024
In a village near Kebribeyah district of Somali regional state, a young herder guides the cattle to the water source, keeping the age-old tradition alive. Image by Solomon Yimer.

As climate change upends Ethiopia’s pastoral wisdom, adaptations can help

Sonam Lama Hyolmo and Solomon Yimer 26 Nov 2024

Organizations tackle droughts, floods in Brazil by planting forests

Ellen Nemitz 18 Nov 2024
A firefighter wears a breathing mask after the Maui fire to protect himself from toxic vapors.

As global fire risk rises, modern homes become toxic plastic traps

Alden Wicker 14 Nov 2024

Extreme drought wrecks rivers and daily life in Amazon’s most burnt Indigenous land

João Paulo Guimarães 18 Oct 2024
Behind Mario Luna Romero, a Yaqui spokesperson and water defender is the Plutarco Elías Calles (El Novillo) on the left and the Independencia Aqueduct on the right. Image by Abimael Ochoa Hernández.

Despite court ruling, Yaqui water rights abuses ignored

Aimee Gabay 10 Oct 2024
Abdi Ahmed, in his late 60s, continues his pastoral life in Guyo Kebele, Somali Region, supporting his 19 children through a lifetime of nomadic herding.

Drought & climate change force Ethiopia pastoralists to go job hunting

Solomon Yimer 9 Oct 2024

‘We need white men on our side to save the Amazon from destruction,’ 92-year-old Indigenous Chief Raoni says

Carla Ruas 26 Sep 2024

Extreme drought pushes Amazon’s main rivers to lowest-ever levels

Fernanda Wenzel 11 Sep 2024
A traditional Yaqui ceremonial hut in Vícam which is made from alamo

Lack of research as contaminated Yaqui River poses health risks

Aimee Gabay 10 Sep 2024

Amazon lakes overheat as record drought drives dolphin deaths

Bobby Bascomb 6 Sep 2024

Drought forces Amazon Indigenous communities to drink mercury-tainted water

Fernanda Wenzel 5 Sep 2024
With the advance of agriculture in Maranhão, rain cycles have been disrupted and rivers and streams have begun drying. Some of the state’s only remaining rainforest lies within a group of Indigenous lands here, home to the Guarani people. Ana Ionova for Mongabay.

In the Brazilian Amazon, seedlings offer hope for drying rivers

Ana Ionova 30 Aug 2024

Record drought in Yucatán prompts revival of ancient Maya rain ceremony

Mark Viales 29 Aug 2024

Eucalyptus expansion worsens droughts and fires in Brazil’s Cerrado, conservationists say

Sarah Brown 27 Aug 2024
Mothers and children wait in Changanine community (Chibuto District), Mozambique to collect their seeds from the Red Cross. The community has been hit very hard by the current drought, many have lost their crops and locals have to walk up to five kilometres to dig for water. Image by Aurélie Marrier d'Unienville / IFRC via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Climate change threatens public health, raising the spread of food-borne diseases

Leocadia Bongben 15 Aug 2024
The Cerrado biome landscape.

Cerrado’s current drought impossible without human-caused climate change: Study

Molly Herring 31 Jul 2024

Indigenous communities in the Bolivian Amazon combat droughts and floods

Iván Paredes Tamayo 25 Jul 2024
Young traditional dancers wearing ténabari around their ankles perform the danza del pascola y venado (the dance of the pascolas and the deer).

Loss of water means loss of culture for Mexico’s Indigenous Yaqui

Aimee Gabay 16 Jul 2024
Harvard researchers Evan Routhier and Faiz Haque during the sample collections at dawn in the Paraná do Jacaré, in the Negro River in mid-September 2023.

Study to benchmark water quality finds key Amazon tributary in good shape

Kevin Damasio 15 Jul 2024

After historic 2023 drought, Amazon communities brace for more in Brazil

Amanda Magnani 10 Jul 2024
Guasimas Bay has been contaminated by agrochemicals and waste that is released from shrimp farms not far from the coast.

As drought parches Mexico, a Yaqui water defender fights for a sacred river

Aimee Gabay 9 Jul 2024
Fires are tearing through the Pantanal, their spread quickened by accumulated biomass. Credit: Gustavo Figueirôa/SOS Pantanal.

Pantanal’s intense blazes stoke fears of another destructive fire season

Constance Malleret 27 Jun 2024

Ancient farming system and campesino livelihoods at risk in Mexico City

Aimee Gabay 12 Jun 2024
Local and International organizations participated in the plantation.

Uzbekistan plants a forest where a sea once lay

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 29 May 2024
Aerial view of unpaved roads dividing a soy monoculture from the native Cerrado, in the region of Ribeiro Gonçalves, Piauí, Brazil. Image courtesy of Adriano Gambarini/WWF-Brazil.

In Brazil’s Cerrado, aquifers are losing more water than they can replace

Kevin Damasio 24 May 2024

‘Weather whiplash’ cycles of floods & droughts imperil Nigerian farming

Tarinipre Francis 15 May 2024

An ancient Indigenous lagoon system brings water back to a dry town in Ecuador

Alexis Serrano Carmona 15 May 2024
Acorns on an oak tree.

Drone cameras help scientists distinguish between drought stress & fungus in oaks

Abhishyant Kidangoor 18 Apr 2024

Climate change could drive mammal extinction in Brazil’s Caatinga, study warns

Evanildo da Silveira 15 Apr 2024
Muhammad Erlangga, a student, washes his clothes with rainwater.

Rainwater reserves a tenuous lifeline for Sumatran community amid punishing dry season

Suryadi 11 Apr 2024
Indigenous Tolupan people cultivating crops in Yoro, Honduras

Agroforestry project sows seeds of hope in drought-hit Honduras

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 Mar 2024

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