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Unusual weather patterns in Sweden’s arctic region seem to be jeopardizing the migrating reindeer’s traditional grazing grounds, as rainfall during the winter has led to thick layers of snowy ice that block access to food.

Sámi reindeer herders protest EU-backed graphite mine, fearing lost grazing ground

Aimee Gabay 22 Dec 2025
A cocoa farmer and member of a local cooperative inspects the state of bean fermentation in Lembe Yezoum, Cameroon.

Researchers find concerning gaps in global maps used for EUDR compliance

John Cannon 19 Dec 2025
: Press conference following the vote to delay the EUDR, again. Image courtesy of Laurie Dieffembacq/European Union.

EU votes to delay EUDR antideforestation law for second year in a row

Shanna Hanbury 19 Dec 2025

As storms surge & the sea rises, Belgium builds dunes for protection

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 Dec 2025
Smoke rises from a coal-burning power plant. Refuse-derived fuel (RDF), which includes large amounts of plastics, is replacing fossil fuels in some energy and industrial furnaces. But critics say this practice is merely replacing one dirty fuel for another.

Boom in burning waste for fuel could put human health and environment at risk

Sean Mowbray 10 Dec 2025
Fishing gear. Image courtesy of Thomas Merritt via Unsplash.

‘Myopic’ fisheries managers toy with a new ‘tragedy of the commons’ (commentary)

Charles Clover 9 Dec 2025

Norway pauses deep-sea mining for four years

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Dec 2025
Courtesy of Grupo de Intervención en Altura.

Cristina Gallardo, 39, a devoted guardian of Spain’s wild places, is lost to a fall

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Dec 2025
Spraying pesticides on a field. Chemical pesticides have become ubiquitous in industrial agriculture, and have contributed to a rapid rise in chronic diseases, researchers say.

‘Silent epidemic of chemical pollution’ demands radical regulatory redo, say scientists

Mike Gaworecki 3 Dec 2025
European Parliament during voting session on Nov. 26. Image courtesy of the European Union.

EU backs another one-year delay for EUDR antideforestation law

Shanna Hanbury 27 Nov 2025

Are wolves scared of us?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 25 Nov 2025
Sámi reindeer herders and conservationists set up a protest camp at the facilities of the Blue Moon Metals Nussir mine in Finnmark county, Norway. Photo by Rasmus Berg / Natur og Ungdom.

Plans to dispose of mining waste in Norway’s Arctic Ocean worries Sámi fishers, herders

Aimee Gabay 18 Nov 2025
Two male ibex in front of Mont Aiguille in the Dauphiné Alps, France.

France’s largest rewilding project takes root in the Dauphiné Alps

Marlowe Starling 17 Nov 2025
Logging operation in Sweden. Image courtesy of Marcus Westberg.

Why Sweden’s forest policy matters to the world (commentary)

Emil Siekkinen 7 Nov 2025
Video of a brown rat catching a bat at Segeberger Kalkberg. Image courtesy of Gloza-Rausch et al., 2025 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Europe’s under-pressure bats face ‘astonishing’ threat: Ambush by rats

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Nov 2025
Logging truck leaves the forest in Ghana. Image courtesy of Fern.

As Ghana ships first ‘gold standard’ timber to EU, questions about FLEGT’s future remain (commentary)

Fred Pearce 3 Nov 2025

Scientists map Italy’s entire coast to guide seagrass and marine recovery

Manuela Callari 31 Oct 2025

Bird flu hits migrating cranes hard in Germany as the virus flares up

Associated Press 29 Oct 2025
A shark is hauled into the hold of the Pedra da Grelo, a Spanish longliner targeting swordfish in the south Atlantic ocean.

Report finds dangerous mercury levels, highlights mislabeling in shark meat sold in EU

Elizabeth Fitt 29 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
EU Environment Commissioner Jessika Roswall. Image courtesy of the European Union.

EU proposes soft delay of anti-deforestation law & more exemptions for rich nations

Shanna Hanbury 22 Oct 2025
U.N. special rapporteurs Mary Lawlor, left, and Clément Voule in 2023. Image courtesy of U.N. Photo/Evan Schneider.

Rise in persecution of climate defenders in Europe slammed by UN expert

Shanna Hanbury 21 Oct 2025
A slender-billed curlew illustration by Elizabeth Gould & Edward Lear via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

The slender-billed curlew, a migratory waterbird, is officially extinct: IUCN

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Oct 2025

Voices from the Land

Mongabay.com 15 Oct 2025
A gray wolf in Europe. Image by Mikkel Houmøller via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Study busts big bad myth that wolves are growing fearless of humans

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Oct 2025
Starfish on sunken World War II munitions in the Baltic Sea. Image courtesy of Vedenin et al., 2025 (CC BY 4.0).

Marine life are thriving on Nazi missile debris in the Baltic Sea: Study

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Oct 2025

From Chile to Greece, ‘ghost gear’ from fish farms haunts the seas

Guia Baggi 25 Sep 2025
A member of the Sámi Indigenous people tends a reindeer in Sweden.

Europe’s competition over Indigenous Sámi resources: Voices from the land (commentary)

Áslat Holmberg 22 Sep 2025
Rubber agroforestry in Indonesia. Concerns are that the deforestation definition used by the EUDR could negatively impact farmers practicing agroforestry, leading to their exclusion from EU commodity supply chains, impacting their livelihoods.

Experts flag unintended harms from EU deforestation law

Mongabay.com 17 Sep 2025
A woman fans herself in Madrid, Spain, July 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)

Spain sweltered under hottest summer on record in 2025, weather agency says

Associated Press 17 Sep 2025
Przewalski’s horses in the Villanueva de Alcorón forest in Spain. Image courtesy of Neil Aldridge/Rewilding Europe.

Wild horses return to Spain’s Iberian highlands after 10,000 years

Mongabay.com 16 Sep 2025

The Great Insect Crisis

Jeremy Hance 15 Sep 2025

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