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A forest fire burns in Valparaíso, Chile, in February 2024. Image courtesy of the Gobierno de Chile via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0 CL)

Tropical forest loss hit new heights in 2024; fire a major driver in Latin America

Ruth Kamnitzer 21 May 2025

Global ocean temperatures set new record in 2024

Edward Carver 15 Jan 2025

Severe drought in Peruvian Amazon isolated more than 130 Indigenous communities

Aimee Gabay 5 Dec 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

As fires ravaged Indonesia in 2023, some positive trends emerged, data show

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Apr 2024
Relief effort during the Ene River floods, March 2024.

‘Another catastrophe’: Flooding destroys Indigenous agroforestry projects in Peru’s Amazon

Maxwell Radwin 26 Mar 2024
Wildfire on Kangaroo Island, Australia.

Studies still uncovering true extent of 2019-20 Australia wildfire catastrophe

Mongabay Haze Beat 11 Mar 2024
Rotten coffee in Jember as a result of the long drought in 2023.

Harsh dry season sours harvest prospects for Java coffee farmers

Moh. Tamimi 26 Feb 2024
Marmi, a rice farmer, is monitoring the development of rice as the planting season approaches in Buru's Waeapo village.

Maluku farmers sweat El Niño drought as Indonesia rice prices surge

Jaya Barends 25 Jan 2024
Army officers try to extinguish fires in peatland areas in Central Kalimantan.

2023 fires increase fivefold in Indonesia amid El Niño

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2024
Rainforest in Sulawesi. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

2024 outlook for rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Jan 2024
Planet satellite images of the confluence of the Rio Negro and Rio Jufari near the border of the states of Amazonas and Roraima in Brazil taken in October 2023, revealing sandbars and exposed riverbed during the severe drought that affected large parts of the Amazon rainforest. Photo courtesy of Planet Labs.

The year in rainforests: 2023

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 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

Indonesian children locked out of school as El Niño haze chokes parts of Sumatra & Kalimantan

Mongabay Haze Beat 5 Oct 2023

Sumatran province hangs on for late rain as El Niño fires bring heat and sickness

Mongabay Haze Beat 28 Sep 2023

Muslim women’s group to reopen oxygen homes if Indonesia wildfires intensify

Mongabay Haze Beat 24 Jul 2023
A firefighter puts out fires in a peatland in Indonesia.

With El Niño likely, Indonesia’s volunteer firefighters gear up — with new gear

Mongabay Haze Beat 4 Jul 2023
A farmer plants rice in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Deforestation linked to less rainfall, study shows; El Niño could make it worse

Jewel S. Cabrera 26 May 2023

Australia bushfires may have caused global climate phenomenon La Niña: Study

Mongabay Haze Beat 11 May 2023

An El Niño is forecast for 2023. How much coral will bleach this time?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Feb 2023

Indonesia’s Supreme Court rules President Widodo not liable in 2015 fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Nov 2022
Climate change challenges southern right whale survival. Following strong El Niño events a high proportion of females were missing from their breeding sites. After one year of gestation followed by another year of lactation, reproductive females are vulnerable to a reduced availability of krill, and they may potentially fail to fully recover. Photo by Nicolás Lewin

El Niño takes a toll on southern right whales in the Atlantic Ocean

Brian Phan 1 Dec 2021
Bolivia

With La Niña conditions back, is it good news for tropical forests?

Carolyn Cowan 22 Nov 2021

2015-2016 El Niño caused 2.5 billion trees to die in just 1% of the Amazon

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 16 Aug 2021

App harnesses citizen power to keep tabs on Philippines’ coral reefs

Jen Chan 27 Jul 2020

Game changer? Antarctic ice melt related to tropical weather shifts: Study

Gloria Dickie 1 Apr 2020

Extreme El Niño drought, fires contribute to Amazon insect collapse: Study

Taran Volckhausen 13 Mar 2020

Melting Arctic sea ice may be altering winds, weather at equator: study

Gloria Dickie 27 Jan 2020

For the Philippines, a warming world means stronger typhoons, fewer fish

Mongabay.com 16 Oct 2019

Halfway through the year, 2017 is on pace to be the second warmest on record

Mike Gaworecki 19 Jul 2017

Groundwater may play key role in forest fires

Sandhya Sekar 16 Jun 2017

Record heat and drought seen in Amazon during 2015-16 El Niño

Claire Salisbury 30 Jan 2017

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