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Oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Image courtesy of NOAA.

Oil pollution is drifting into marine protected areas, report finds

Shanna Hanbury 12 Oct 2026

As Colombo heats up, passive cooling offers a low-energy solution — but at a cost

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 12 Oct 2026

Painted wind turbines can dramatically reduce bird deaths, study finds

Bobby Bascomb 9 Oct 2026

Dhaka’s waste-to-energy plant face backlash over air pollution

Mongabay.com 9 Oct 2026
anti-fracking protest Colombia

Colombia’s new government backs fracking as debate over energy future heats up

Catherine Ellis 7 Oct 2026

Solar power helps Amazon communities ditch diesel and prepare for El Niño drought

Associated Press 6 Oct 2026
A brown clockfig in South Africa’s Gariep Valley. Image © pietermier via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Rare Southern African succulent listed as critically endangered amid mining threat

Victoria Schneider 5 Oct 2026

Satellite data reveal massive scale of routine oil pollution in oceans. See the map

Shanna Hanbury 2 Oct 2026

Wind turbine taller than the Eiffel Tower aims to boost German electricity production

Associated Press 1 Oct 2026
Wind farm complex in Gentio do Ouro, a municipality in Bahia that could soon host dozens of data centers brought in by renewable energy companies. Image by Thomas Bauer/Intercept Brasil and Mongabay.

Renewable energy companies fuel Brazilian data center boom, investigation finds

Mongabay.com 1 Oct 2026
Big Oil vs. national parks

Big Oil vs. national parks: Who wins?

Izzy Sasada 30 Sep 2026

Kenyan nuclear project faces international legal challenge over security risks

Elodie Toto 29 Sep 2026

Philippines is the deadliest country in Asia for environmental defenders, report finds

Naina Rao 28 Sep 2026
A petrol station at Llanrhystud, Ceredigion. Image by Roger Kidd via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Fossil fuel subsidies are the ‘worst energy policy in the world,’ researchers say

David Brown 25 Sep 2026

Indonesia’s geothermal push runs into local fears at Mount Ungaran

Triyo Handoko 24 Sep 2026
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A mega-dam made this community move

Izzy Sasada 23 Sep 2026

Critics question oil and gas spending in Mexico’s proposed climate budget

Maxwell Radwin 22 Sep 2026
A herd of vicuña in Salar de Chalviri, Bolivia

Copper boom fueling energy transition puts Earth’s wildlands at risk

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 22 Sep 2026
Confluence of the Chuwa River (at right) into the Karnali River (left). Image courtesy of Sherparinji via Wikimedia Commons / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0.

For wild rivers like the Karnali, Nepal’s disaster is a warning and an answer (commentary)

Gary Wockner, Megh Ale 21 Sep 2026
Rainbow over the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Britain’s Prince William reveals finalists for Earthshot environmental prize

Associated Press 18 Sep 2026

Venezuela’s historic oil deal with the US reignites environmental, human rights concerns

Maxwell Radwin 16 Sep 2026
A waste picker works amid thick smoke rising from the vast garbage mounds at Dhaka North City Corporation’s Aminbazar landfill in Savar. She was looking for plastic or other valuable recyclable items there.

Dhaka’s waste-to-energy project faces opposition from pollution-weary residents

Eyamin Sajid 15 Sep 2026
Offshore wind turbines at Noshiro Port, Japan.

10 promising ways to ‘green’ offshore wind

Sean Mowbray 15 Sep 2026

EPA eliminates rule that limits planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants

Associated Press 14 Sep 2026

Federal court rejects Trump order keeping Michigan coal plant open

Associated Press 11 Sep 2026
A turbine being installed at Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm in the U.K.

Offshore wind may be good for the climate but can it be good for the ocean, too?

Sean Mowbray 10 Sep 2026
An artisanal miner holds up a fragment of copper-bearing ore.

On renewable energy, it’s time to debunk the ‘transition minerals’ narrative (commentary)

Shaan Sood 3 Sep 2026
The Olmeca oil refinery stands at the Dos Bocas port in Paraiso, Tabasco state, Mexico. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Mexico-Brazil oil deal raises concern for ecosystems and energy transition

Daniel Shailer 3 Sep 2026
A drone view shows a major section of Pasang Lhamu highway washed away along swollen Trishuli river by recent flash floods. Image by AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh.

Nepal’s flood disaster puts its hydropower-first strategy, exports to the test

Rudra Pangeni 2 Sep 2026
Smooth-coated otters (Lutrogale perspicillata) have a midday snack at Jurong Eco Garden, Singapore. Image by JJ Harrison via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Logging operations uncovered at Cambodian senator’s dam in the Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn 2 Sep 2026

Biomass cooking fuels raise toxic metal exposure risks in Bangladesh, study finds

Usraat Fahmidah 1 Sep 2026

Drones helped find people after Nepal floods but the search inside hydropower tunnels is a challenge

Associated Press 1 Sep 2026

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