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Thailand flood, 2011

Thailand tries nature-based water management to adapt to climate change

Carolyn Cowan 7 Dec 2023

Indonesia pushes carbon-intensive ‘false solutions’ in its energy transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Dec 2023
A man carries relief items.

Climate loss & damage fund ‘the furthest thing imaginable from a success’

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 28 Nov 2023
A REDD+-supported nursery at Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary in Cambodia. Image by John Cannon/Mongabay.

Carbon credit certifier Verra updates accounting method amid growing criticism

John Cannon 28 Nov 2023
Kosnipata Valley in Peru. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Can impermanent carbon credits really offset forever emissions?

John Cannon 22 Nov 2023

Ancient ocean water found in Himalayas could offer insights about evolution

Niladry Sarkar 22 Nov 2023
Reserva Narupa in Ecuador. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Mongabay CEO discusses slowdown in Amazon loss and other positive news

Mike DiGirolamo 21 Nov 2023
A woman stands next to a well with water that tastes salty due to seawater interference.

Salty wells and lost land: Climate and erosion take their toll in Sulawesi

Agus Mawan 21 Nov 2023

Indonesia launches new front in climate campaign focusing on seagrass

Basten Gokkon 21 Nov 2023

Glencore’s coal expansion plans face shareholder and Indigenous opposition

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Nov 2023
Fossils fuels are emblematic of a “take-make-waste” economic model that is pushing humanity beyond safe limits, experts say.

Circular economy poised to go beyond outdated oil, gas and coal, experts say

Sean Mowbray 16 Nov 2023
A young boy tries to help a fallen donkey stand during a severe drought that struck the Horn of Africa.

Beyond Climate: Fossil fuels rapidly eroding Earth’s ‘safe operating space’

Sean Mowbray 15 Nov 2023
A phytoplankton bloom in the Baltic Sea captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

Is ocean iron fertilization back from the dead as a CO₂ removal tool?

Jeremy Hance 14 Nov 2023
Rainforest and an oil palm plantation in Sumatra. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Forests hold massive carbon storage potential — if we cut emissions

Liz Kimbrough 14 Nov 2023
Workers clean an oil spill that has polluted a beach on Salamina Island, Greece.

Beyond climate: Oil, gas and coal are destabilizing all 9 planetary boundaries

Sean Mowbray 14 Nov 2023
wind farm

Colombian wind farm end-of-life raises circularity and Indigenous questions

Natalia Torres Garzón 9 Nov 2023
Rice farmers in Vietnam

Dam-building on Mekong poses risk to regional industries, report says

Carolyn Cowan 8 Nov 2023

Forest elephants are the ‘glue’ holding Congo rainforests together

Mike DiGirolamo 7 Nov 2023
A monster wave at Newhaven, East Sussex, in the UK, during Storm Eunice. Image by StormChaserLiam / Twitter.

Climate change threatens the North Atlantic’s currents, ecosystems and stability (analysis)

Pitamber Kaushik 7 Nov 2023
Muslim communities represent a large percentage of the global population and are greatly impacted by climate change, and therefore deserve seats at important climate change negotiations like COP28. Image courtesy of Memona Hossain.

Muslim community must have a seat for global climate change discourse (commentary)

Memona Hossain 3 Nov 2023
Monarch butterflies

Betting on biodiversity: Q&A with Superorganism’s Kevin Webb & Tom Quigley

Abhishyant Kidangoor 3 Nov 2023
Digital screens in New York's Times Square.

The Cloud vs. drought: Water hog data centers threaten Latin America, critics say

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 2 Nov 2023
Coral spawning.

Climate refugees? As the sea warms, corals thrive in Japan’s cool waters

Annelise Giseburt 25 Oct 2023

Forest conservation ‘off-track’ to halt deforestation by 2030: New report

John Cannon 24 Oct 2023
Macaws flying over the rainforest.

Mongabay wins prestigious 2023 Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication

Mongabay.com 18 Oct 2023

Indigenous seed collectors grow a network of restoration across Brazil

Kevin Damasio 18 Oct 2023
Regenerative agriculture methods, such as green cover crops, help Santiaga Sánchez’s farm better withstand persistent drought punctuated by sudden violent storms.

Battling desertification: Bringing soil back to life in semiarid Spain

Jaime Velázquez, Xaume Olleros 17 Oct 2023
Santiaga Sánchez seated atop a pile of compost she calls her “brown gold.”

Meet the farmers in southeastern Spain fighting desertification

Jaime Velázquez, Xaume Olleros 17 Oct 2023
This Planet satellite image shows how extreme drought in the Amazon has reduced the Rio Negro to a trickle. Image Ⓒ 2023 Planet Labs PBC

Despite severe drought, Amazon deforestation continues to slow

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Oct 2023
A trawler Naoned in the European part of North Atlantic Ocean.

Record North Atlantic heat sees phytoplankton decline, fish shift to Arctic

Juliette Portala 12 Oct 2023
Greenpeace activists built a carbon bomb to protest Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage at a protest in Germany. Image courtesy of Karsten Smid / Greenpeace Media Library.

Beyond ‘no,’ more positive visions for conservation need communication (commentary)

Rachael Garrett 12 Oct 2023
Humpback whales in French Polynesian waters. The intensity and duration of marine heat waves could have widespread effects on marine biodiversity, increasing the likelihood of species displacement and mortality. Image by Toby Matthews / Ocean Image Bank.

As oceans warm, marine heat waves push deep beneath the surface, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Oct 2023

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