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In Chile, drought and human expansion threaten a unique national park

Michelle Carrere 17 Nov 2022
A handful of hazelnuts harvested by Nutwood Farm co-owner Kalyan Uprichard. Photo by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay.

American agroforestry accelerates with new funding announcements

Erik Hoffner 31 Oct 2022
Elias Saker inspects wheat. Image by Marta Vidal for Mongabay.

Lebanese research preserves heat-adapted seeds to feed a warming world

Marta Vidal 20 Sep 2022
Fire near the Manicoré River in Amazonas state in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

How close is the Amazon tipping point? Forest loss in the east changes the equation

Liz Kimbrough 20 Sep 2022

More droughts are coming, and the Amazon can’t keep up: Study

Liz Kimbrough 16 Sep 2022
Josefina Santiago in her agroecological farm where she crops maize, beans, and pumpkins close to the water pans. El Porvenir, San José del Progreso, Oaxaca, Mexico, May 2022, Monica Pelliccia

On the frontlines of drought, communities in Mexico strive to save every drop of water

Monica Pelliccia 6 Sep 2022

Crimes against the Amazon reverberate across Brazil, analysis shows

Elizabeth Oliveira 31 Aug 2022
Drought in India.

What’s the chance of meeting Paris climate goal? Just 0.1%, study says

Mongabay.com 29 Aug 2022
Soy and corn make up 88% of Brazil’s grain production

Bad weather knocks down Brazil’s grain production as ‘exhaustively forewarned’

Shanna Hanbury 17 Aug 2022
A water reservoir near Cape Town, South Africa.

Drought-beset South African city taps aquifer, shirks long-term solutions: Critics

Anna Weekes 11 Aug 2022
Young girls line up at a feeding centre in Mogadishu, Somalia

Climate change amplifies the risk of conflict, study from Africa shows

Malavika Vyawahare 13 Jul 2022

‘Water always wins,’ so why are we fighting it?

Mike DiGirolamo 12 Jul 2022
Framers tending to their agricultural land in Uzbekistan.

Beyond boundaries: Earth’s water cycle is being bent to breaking point

Petro Kotzé 21 Jun 2022

‘Lost’ Amazonian cities hint at how to build urban landscapes without harming nature

Kimberley Brown 15 Jun 2022
Botanist Keith Steunenberg stands next to a thicket.

Can wonder plant spekboom really bring smiles back to sad South African towns?

Anna Weekes 7 Jun 2022
A young girl carrying one of her goats as they travel home at the end of the day.

Conflict over resources in Kenya hits deadly highs with firearms in play

Kang-Chun Cheng 19 May 2022

A new index measures the human impacts on Amazon waters

Ronaldo Ribeiro, Letícia Klein, Kevin Damasio, Laura Kurtzberg, Ambiental Media 5 May 2022
Harvesting oranges near Sicily, Italy.

Cradle of transformation: The Mediterranean and climate change

John Cannon 28 Apr 2022

Freshwater planetary boundary “considerably” transgressed: New research

Petro Kotzé 27 Apr 2022
Detroit Dam in Oregon

The world’s dams: Doing major harm but a manageable problem?

Petro Kotzé 21 Apr 2022
Fire fighters putting out forest fire in Riau, Indonesia.

Indonesia’s Riau province declares state of emergency ahead of fire season

Suryadi 5 Apr 2022

As the Horn of Africa heats up, the risks of insecurity are rising (commentary)

Robert Muggah, Peter Schmidt, Giovanna Kuele 28 Mar 2022

In destroying the Amazon, big agribusiness is torching its own viability

Sarah Brown 7 Mar 2022

‘Everything is on fire’: Flames rip through Iberá National Park in Argentina

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Feb 2022

Amazon losing far more carbon from forest degradation than deforestation: Study

Graycen Wheeler 9 Feb 2022

Fires threaten vital peatland in Chile’s Tierra del Fuego

Maxwell Radwin 7 Feb 2022

Paraguay’s drought hits biodiversity, Indigenous communities the hardest

Maxwell Radwin 3 Feb 2022

Efforts to dim Sun and cool Earth must be blocked, say scientists

Shanna Hanbury 24 Jan 2022
Female environmental activist

‘Rural women in Zimbabwe are in constant contact with climate change’: Q&A with Shamiso Mupara

Derick Matsengarwodzi 20 Jan 2022
Rising water levels Kenya

Sinkholes emerge in rural Kenya after series of floods, droughts

Kang-Chun Cheng 30 Dec 2021

Small coffee farmers lay their chips on smart agriculture to overcome climate crisis in the Cerrado biome

Débora Pinto 29 Dec 2021

As climate-driven drought slams farms in U.S. West, water solutions loom

Saul Elbein 17 Dec 2021

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