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Fossil fuel transition summit seeks progress beyond stalled COP talks

Aimee Gabay 11 May 2026
Pair of flamingos in Marawah Marine Biosphere Reserve, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Image courtesy of Maitha Bughanoom.

Arabian Gulf’s fragile marine ecosystem threatened by current crisis (commentary)

Razan Al Mubarak 11 May 2026
Solar panels being installed on a roof of a house in Lagos, Nigeria. Image by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo.

New report questions Africa’s oil and gas promise

David Akana 8 May 2026
Fishers in the Mekong River near Chiang Khong, Thailand. Elevated arsenic levels at testing sites in the Mekong indicate that contamination may be spreading into this vital waterway. Image by Stefan Lovgren.

Dangerous arsenic levels detected in Thailand’s Mekong mainstream for first time

Gerald Flynn 8 May 2026
portrait of Anthonia Akonasu. Image courtesy of Taiwo Aina-Adeokun.

Crude oil and wood fires fuel Nigeria’s soot pollution, in photos

Shanna Hanbury 7 May 2026

Venezuela tells UN court that mineral-rich part of Guyana was ‘fraudulently’ taken in colonial era

Associated Press 6 May 2026
image courtesy of Victor Moriyama/Climate Visuals.

Solar installation and deforestation in the Amazon: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 4 May 2026
RJ Nichole Ledesma. Via Facebook.

RJ Nichole Ledesma, chronicler of unsettled ground on Negros Island, was killed last month. He was 30.

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 May 2026

DRC copper exports to US set to surge amid warnings of corruption risk

Elodie Toto 1 May 2026
Residents of Kalacha settlement during a meeting with civil society representatives and lawyers in February, 2026.

Kenyan Court allows landmark BP toxic waste lawsuit to proceed

Dalle Abraham 1 May 2026
Children and adults cleaning and washing minerals in Kakanda, DRC. Image by Didier Makal/ Mongabay.

UN report flags disproportionate costs of clean energy transition

Victoria Schneider 30 Apr 2026
The Nkhundye biogas plant under construction. Image courtesy of NACRO.

A village biogas project tests Zambia’s push to improve rural energy access

Sokosi Silvester Banda 29 Apr 2026
Wind farm off Pingtan Island in Pingtan county, Fuzhou, China. Image by Kilian Murphy via Unsplash.

Offshore wind’s clean energy potential remains largely untapped, say experts

Sean Mowbray 27 Apr 2026

Canada offers mines and more in $730b investment bid slammed as unsustainable

David Brown 23 Apr 2026
Solar panels installed in Bali

New treaty to end the fossil fuel era is needed more than ever (commentary)

Tzeporah Berman 21 Apr 2026
A solar power plant installation for a mosque. Image by Jaka Hendra Baittri/Mongabay Indonesia.

Fossil fuel subsidies and high costs stall energy transition across rural Indonesia

Luh De Suriyani 21 Apr 2026
Luis Yanza. Courtesy of the Goldman Prize.

Luis Yanza, campaigner who battled big oil in the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Apr 2026

Chernobyl’s radioactive landscape is a testament to nature’s resilience and survival spirit

Associated Press 20 Apr 2026
Fabrice, a ranger at Virunga National Park since 2013 and now a Deputy Sector Warden, pauses during a patrol. Virunga has lost more rangers than any other protected area in Africa, illustrating the human cost of conservation and raising the question of whether new conservation models can better protect both biodiversity and those charged with defending it. Image courtesy of Virunga National Park.

Emmanuel de Merode, director of Virunga National Park: “If conservation creates hardships, it won’t work”

David Akana 20 Apr 2026
The proposed Green Corridor would stretch from Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, all the way to Kinshasa in the west. An aerial view of a village in South Kivu, DRC. Image by MONUSCO via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

DRC: Can the Kivu–Kinshasa Green Corridor turn a war economy into one of hope?

David Akana 20 Apr 2026
Pa Haw, father of Saw Si Paw, takes to the Salween River each morning to inspect their nets for fish, despite heavy metal contamination linked to mining sites upstream. Photo by Gerald Flynn/Mongabay.

Asia’s longest free-flowing river contaminated by arsenic linked to Myanmar mines

Gerald Flynn 20 Apr 2026
A Philippine duck (Anas luzonica) at Liguasan Marsh.

Energy crisis revives push to drill in Philippines’ largest intact wetland

Bong S. Sarmiento 17 Apr 2026

BP sued in Kenya over alleged toxic waste from 1980s oil exploration

Associated Press 16 Apr 2026
A squat lobster in the deep sea.

Deep-sea wildernesses are more important than the promise of seafloor mining (analysis)

Andrew D. Thaler 14 Apr 2026

Repeated failures expose gaps in Indonesia’s nickel waste management

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Apr 2026

Africa’s solar costs could rise as China cuts export subsidies

Elodie Toto 10 Apr 2026
Mountain gorilla silverback in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. Image by Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo.

Mongabay launches Solutions Desk to track what works for the planet

Mongabay.com 7 Apr 2026
The Kapawi River, soon to be the first “solar river” in the Amazon, is a lifeline for more than 1,000 Indigenous peoples and is home to endangered pink river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis). Image by Andrés Cornejo.

Indigenous governance key to protecting Amazon Basin connectivity, experts say

Constance Malleret 7 Apr 2026

Indonesian geothermal projects stall amid Indigenous concerns over justice

Mongabay.com 3 Apr 2026
Nickel mining on Manuran Island. Image courtesy of Auriga Nusantara.

Indonesia’s deforestation surges 66% in 2025, reversing years of decline

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Apr 2026
Integrated Women’s Development Organization at work in Sidama, Ethiopia. Image courtesy of Ruhama Getahun.

Ethiopian women plant trees, restoring lands & livelihoods

Charles Mpaka 1 Apr 2026

Oil surge sharpens calls for Indonesia to shift away from fossil fuels

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Apr 2026

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