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In Malawi, a rural community shines bright with 100% solar power milestone

Madalitso Wills Kateta 30 Oct 2025
Wind turbines installed off the coast of Rhode Island, U.S.

Potential wind slowdown threatens renewable energy and fuels heat domes

Mongabay.com 29 Oct 2025

Drax pellet mill wins appeal to raise pollution limits in small Mississippi town

Justin Catanoso 28 Oct 2025
Communities in the Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc Basin have activities such as livestock farming, agriculture, crafts and tourism. Image courtesy of Clemente Flores.

Lithium mining may threaten a precious resource — water: Voices from the land (commentary)

Clemente Flores 27 Oct 2025
A TotalEnergies petrol station in Handeni Tanga, Tanzania. Image by Praygod mwanga via Wikimedia Commons (CCBY4.0).

Oil and gas giant TotalEnergies found guilty of greenwashing

Victoria Schneider 27 Oct 2025
Dozens of Mashco Piro people appeared on a riverbank in Peru in 2024, just a few miles from logging concessions. The Mascho Piro are Indigenous nomadic hunter-gatherers who inhabit Manú National Park in the Madre de Dios region of Peru. They have in the past actively avoided contact with outsiders.

Report urges full protection of world’s 196 uncontacted Indigenous peoples

Sue Branford 27 Oct 2025

Radioactive leak in Banten exposes workers to danger & reveals regulatory failures

Anggita Raissa 25 Oct 2025
A yurt with solar panels in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.

How to clean solar panels in arid areas? Waterless systems could improve efficiency

Samuel Ogunsona 24 Oct 2025
Shoebills are one of the endangered species that rely on Lake Victoria in Uganda. Image by Emilie Chen via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0).

Has Uganda done enough to prevent pollution of Lake Albert by oil drilling? (commentary)

Robert Agenonga 24 Oct 2025
Mfolozi Community Environmental Justice Organisation leader Fikile Ntshangase was killed in 2020. Image courtesy of Lunga Bhengu/groundWork.

‘We are just waiting to die’: Mining activists targeted as South Africa delays energy transition

Anna Weekes 23 Oct 2025
Consumed book cover

Plastic’s triumph was no accident. It built an economy addicted to throwaway living

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Oct 2025
Cerro Rico mountain above the city of Potosí, Bolivia.

In the heart of Bolivia, the mountain that financed an empire risks collapsing

Benjamin Swift 22 Oct 2025
Birds flock in the foreground against wind turbines at the Spearville Wind Farm Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, in Spearville, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Radar study shows when offshore turbines pose greatest risks to migrating birds

Edward Carver 21 Oct 2025
The NS-42 drilling rig, already at the Morpho well, is set to begin drilling immediately. Image courtesy of Petrobras.

Environmental groups slam Amazon oil drilling approval ahead of COP30

Shanna Hanbury 21 Oct 2025
An Eskom power station in South Africa's Mpumalanga province. Image courtesy of Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp (CCBY-ND4.0).

South Africa court halts natural gas power plant project, cites climate commitments

Victoria Schneider 20 Oct 2025
Mamá Conchita in her chagra with her dogs.

Indigenous women and the path to a just energy transition: Voices from the land (commentary)

Galina Angarova, Daniela De León 20 Oct 2025

Unique diving paradise threatened by mine reopening

Juan Maza 18 Oct 2025
Illoulofin Solar Power Station

Benin puts solar power at the heart of its energy policy

Didier Hubert Madafimè 16 Oct 2025
Deforestation for nickel mining in Gag Island, Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Image courtesy of Auriga Nusantara.

Nickel mining threatens Raja Ampat ecosystems, communities & conservation: Report

Basten Gokkon 16 Oct 2025

Peru considers stripping protections for Indigenous people and their territories

Maxwell Radwin 13 Oct 2025

Cameroon inaugurates controversial dam despite local dissent

Yannick Kenné 10 Oct 2025
A wind farm in Altamont, California. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Big Oil isn’t part of the clean energy push, despite its claims, study shows

Malavika Vyawahare 10 Oct 2025

Canada’s prime minister discussed reviving contentious Keystone XL pipeline with Trump

Associated Press 9 Oct 2025
Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

MPs across Latin America unite to stop fossil fuels in the Amazon

Mie Hoejris Dahl 9 Oct 2025
Fishers with a net at Lake Victoria in Kenya.

Africa’s largest freshwater lake could be site of Kenya’s nuclear power plant

Elodie Toto 8 Oct 2025
Solar panels installed in a forested area in Gabon. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

EU to invest $636m in African power projects, including clean energy

Malavika Vyawahare 7 Oct 2025
A worker of a sustainable solutions company performs maintenance work on a solar panel on a roof on the island of Sumba in Indonesia.

With red tape, canceled rebates, Indonesia risks missing Chinese renewables investment

Jeff Hutton 6 Oct 2025
In just a few months, Global Green have cleared vast swathes of forest in Prey Lang, opening the northern section of the wildlife sanctuary up to more potential deforestation. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024

Gerald Flynn 6 Oct 2025
A fisher mends his net at Yettinahalla.

Turning a stream into a river: Inside India’s Yettinaholé diversion project

Shradha Triveni 2 Oct 2025
A participant plants local green plants in a park as part of Ethiopia's Green Legacy Initiative, which aims to plant 7.5 billion trees by the end of the year, at Jifara Ber site, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Thursday, July 31, 2025.

There’s far less land available for reforestation than we think, study finds

Justin Catanoso 2 Oct 2025
Rainbow over Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler.

Just as Raja Ampat fetches UNESCO Biosphere Reserve title, nickel mining looms

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Oct 2025
The Mae Moh power plant in northern Thailand's Lampang province is a significant contributor to air pollution and has sickened residents across Mae Moh district. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Anguish for residents as Thailand’s most polluting coal plant gets new lease of life

Gerald Flynn 1 Oct 2025

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