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In North Carolina, a race is on to restore critical peatland before it dries up or is destroyed

Associated Press 9 Sep 2026
A woman cleans a blanket in algae-filled water on the banks of Wular Lake in Kashmir.

Kashmir’s water bodies have declined for decades. Is conservation keeping pace?

Hashim Quraishi 9 Sep 2026
A man travels along a street in his wheelchair in Freetown, Sierra Leone

When climate-related hazards rise, so do barriers for people with disabilities

Patricia Sia Ngevao 9 Sep 2026
This orangutan, named Sampurna, was rescued after being exposed to smoke from forest and land fires in Ketapang Regency, West Kalimantan.

Rescuers scramble to save orangutans as El Niño-boosted fires spread across Borneo

Rendy Tisna 9 Sep 2026
A western marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus)

To save Europe’s raptors, conservationists say, look to West Africa

Sean Mowbray 9 Sep 2026
The western tragopan depends on undisturbed mountain forests for survival. Image courtesy of Jainy Maria.

Colorful Himalayan pheasants face a less rosy future under human pressure

Mongabay.com 9 Sep 2026

Indigenous territories maintain Amazon forest just as well as protected areas, study finds

Aimee Gabay 8 Sep 2026

Carbon credit financing emerges as Africa’s biggest bet for expanding clean cooking

Associated Press 8 Sep 2026

Comparing green space for urban cooling, study

Bobby Bascomb 4 Sep 2026

Marine conservation collides with mining in Indonesia’s biodiversity-rich Moramo Bay

La Ode Risman Hermawan 4 Sep 2026
Researchers analyzed secondary forests in four municipalities in Pará state.

Key tree species boost Amazon forest restoration, new study shows

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Sep 2026

Trading food for medicine and crossing the river by zip line are part of life in Nepal flood zone

Associated Press 3 Sep 2026
The southern greater kudu

South Africa’s new gold rush: Big promises, closed books in new carbon frontier

Leonie Joubert 3 Sep 2026
Destroyed crops along the Chambishi Stream after the Sino-Metals Leach Zambia tailings spill, taken around 6 March 2025. Image courtesy of Southern Africa Litigation Center.

Development banks are backing problematic mineral projects, report finds

Elodie Toto 3 Sep 2026

During Nepal floods, decentralized, community-based warning saved lives

Abhaya Raj Joshi 3 Sep 2026

Global warming will exceed limit, UN says in a report that maps path to get back below danger zone

Associated Press 2 Sep 2026
Taiwan’s Bunun leader Dahu Ismahasan stands with the damaged road to Tengjhih in the background on Aug. 6, 2026. Image by Aylin Ho for Mongabay.

Displaced by a typhoon, Taiwan’s Bunun people fear for the future of their culture

Aylin Ho 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

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

Associated Press 1 Sep 2026
A woman lifts a jug she filled with water from a tanker truck amid rationing caused by drought, in the Cupey sector of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo)

Climate change parches Puerto Rico and Jamaica in rare early wet season drought

Naina Rao 1 Sep 2026
A remotely operated vehicle explores brine pool formations in the Orca Basin, Gulf of Mexico. Image courtesy of Ocean Exploration Trust/Nautilus Live.

Gulf of Mexico’s unique Orca Basin shouldn’t become a carbon dump (commentary)

Craig R. McClain 31 Aug 2026
Around 2,000 people gathered for the “Maju for the people” rally on Aug. 16. Image by Ada Cheong.

Singapore spending billions to adapt to climate change, but deforestation continues

Robin Hicks 31 Aug 2026
The superb fairywren is one of 30 endemic Australasian wrens.

Superb fairywrens disappearing in Australia’s capital: Conserving insects could help save them

Cooper Williams 31 Aug 2026

For 50 years, Philip Fearnside has calculated the costs of losing the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Aug 2026

Global sea surface temperatures reach a record high, again

Bobby Bascomb 28 Aug 2026

Why a newly formed lake is sparking fears of more flooding along the Nepal-China border

Associated Press 28 Aug 2026
The coal-fired Payra Power Plant. Image by Muhammad Mostafigur Rahman.

Failed environmental safeguards leave coastal Bangladesh facing coal pollution

Rashidul Hasan 28 Aug 2026
Great white pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus) at the Djoudj Bird Sanctuary in Senegal.

More than 380 coastal World Heritage Sites may face climate risks, new data shows

María Paula Rubiano A. 27 Aug 2026

‘Devastating’ rush for critical minerals has little to do with green energy: Report

Victoria Schneider 27 Aug 2026

US environmental groups plan to sue to relist gray whales under Endangered Species Act

David Brown 27 Aug 2026

Nepal floods highlight growing glacier risks in warming Himalayas

Associated Press 27 Aug 2026
The Belo Monte hydropower dam on the Xingu River in Brazil’s Pará state. Image courtesy of TV Brasil.

Brazil relaxes Belo Monte water rule amid El Niño-fueled Amazon drought risk

Shanna Hanbury 26 Aug 2026

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