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A marine heat wave caused seabird deaths off California. El Nino could worsen the die-off

Associated Press 1 Jul 2026
A Florida panther.

Wildlife’s unpredictable movements make climate-change planning difficult

Gloria Dickie 1 Jul 2026

Indonesia’s blackouts reignite debate over coal-dependent energy transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Jul 2026

Cypriot natural gas could start flowing from ExxonMobil’s discoveries by 2033

Associated Press 30 Jun 2026
Four men stand in muddy water holding a brown fishnet full of fish.

Aquatic animal and terrestrial meat trades now almost on par, FAO report finds

Elizabeth Fitt 29 Jun 2026

The Ideas Shaping Environmental Action

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 29 Jun 2026
A chicken farm in France. Image courtesy of the Brittany Chamber of Agriculture.

Extreme heat wave in France kills hundreds of thousands of poultry

Shanna Hanbury 26 Jun 2026

French court orders TotalEnergies to disclose climate impacts in vigilance plan

Victoria Schneider 26 Jun 2026
A Himalayan wolf.

How snow leopards, wolves and leopards share the same Himalayan valley, study

Liz Kimbrough 26 Jun 2026
Two images captured by LiDAR at different times and overlaid: one of young tree seedlings (pink), the other of the trees (blue) after two years of growth.

Laser scanning forests may boost carbon estimates, but credibility questions linger

Shradha Triveni 26 Jun 2026
Dang Dinh Bach speaking.

Vietnamese environmental lawyer Dang Dinh Bach released after 5 years in prison

Naina Rao 26 Jun 2026
Cocoa producer Giovanne holds a native Amazon species, which is naturally resistant to pests and extreme weather. Image by Cícero Pedrosa Neto.

Amazon floodplains cocoa offers a climate-resilient and sustainable chocolate

Sam Cowie, Cícero Pedrosa Neto 25 Jun 2026

Trump admin persists in quixotic quest against wind power despite legal defeat

Bobby Bascomb 25 Jun 2026

Not all coral reefs are doomed as a result of climate change, study suggests

Elodie Toto 25 Jun 2026

How leopards and wolves share the same Himalayan valley: Study

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jun 2026

As temperatures soar, Paris court set to rule on landmark climate change case

Associated Press 25 Jun 2026
Bison affect plant growth, nutrient cycling, and fire dynamics through their grazing. Image courtesy of Wildlife Conservation Society.

Wildlife helps regulate the climate & this belongs in policy discussions (commentary)

Jérôme Pinti 24 Jun 2026
Firefighters from the Chico Mendes Institute work to contain a forest fire and prevent it from reaching Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, in Brazil’s northern Goiás state in 2025. Image by AP Photo / Eraldo Peres.

Fire surge in 2025 threatened isolated peoples in Brazil

Aimee Gabay 24 Jun 2026
A yellow-bellied wattle-eye (Platysteira concreta), a bird of the rainforest understorey, sits on its nest in the Tai National Park. Image courtesy of Michele Menegon.

‘Rare animals, photography and Instagram’ could help an Ivorian rainforest

Ryan Truscott 23 Jun 2026
A howler monkey in the Amazon. As the world warms, plants and animals must quickly migrate to cooler places to stay resilient and survive.

Study offers first map of Amazon’s climate-resilient upslope corridors

Justin Catanoso 22 Jun 2026

France sizzles in a week of punishing heat as red alerts spread

Associated Press 22 Jun 2026

Eastern Washington wildfire forces evacuations and destroys homes

Associated Press 17 Jun 2026
A mangrove-rich coastal landscape in Tanzania. Protecting and restoring mangrove ecosystems is a cornerstone of community-led marine conservation efforts across East Africa. Photo courtesy of Mwambao Coastal Community Network.

Africa’s community-led marine organizations on which 30×30 depends

David Akana 17 Jun 2026
A loggerhead turtle swimming on rocky seafloor facing the camera.

Teeming with turtles: Cabo Verde island sees 80-fold increase in nesting loggerheads

André Habet 16 Jun 2026

Climate-fueled landslides killed an estimated 58 Tapanuli orangutans, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Jun 2026

Himalayan rivers shifting course as climate warming thaws the ‘Water Tower of Asia’

Naina Rao 16 Jun 2026

Lawmakers fight to stop the Trump administration’s dismantling of a $386M ocean observatory project

Associated Press 15 Jun 2026
Wild dolphins in New York Bight

Global ocean faces ‘deepening crisis,’ but governance is improving: UN report

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Jun 2026

El Nino is here and scientists fear it’ll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires

Associated Press 11 Jun 2026
RAN Burger King protest in 1987. Image courtesy of Rainforest Action Network

How an activist network built pressure without political power

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Jun 2026

The search for climate-resilient coffee: Diversifying beyond Arabica and Robusta

Mongabay.com 11 Jun 2026

A ‘climate-ready’ corridor created for Kyrgyzstan’s snow leopards

Mongabay.com 11 Jun 2026

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