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UK firefighters out in force to tackle fires on hottest day of the year

Associated Press 13 Aug 2026
Industrial complex surrounded by urban forest in Duisburg, Germany. Image courtesy of Jakub Żerdzicki via Pexels.

Carbon accounting differences can halve a company’s reported footprint, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 13 Aug 2026
Whale slaughtering in Hvalfjörður, Iceland, July 2009. Image by Dagur Brynjólfsson via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Iceland to deport antiwhaling protest ship’s crew after they interfered with whale hunt

Alex Megerle 11 Aug 2026
Herd of Finnish forest reindeer in Finland. Image by Sámediggi Saamelaiskäräjät (Sámi parliament) via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Sacred places & living lands: How Indigenous Sámi peoples steward biodiversity (analysis)

Emil Siekkinen 7 Aug 2026

Climate change boosted Spain wildfire risk 20-fold, research shows

Naina Rao 31 Jul 2026
A basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus), an endangered species that uses Dogger Bank as a critical seasonal feeding ground and nursery. Image courtesy of Joost van Uffelen.

Wind farms join bottom trawlers and oil rigs in a protected North Sea sandbank

Christina Egerstrom 30 Jul 2026

Prague zoo keeps polar bears cool with ice cubes as European summer heatwave hits

Associated Press 30 Jul 2026
Bill Oddie launches the Visit Scotland new website with Tam the Peregrine falcon at Visitscotland’s London office, May 6, 2004. Photo by Michael Stephens/PA via AP.

Bill Oddie brought birdwatching into millions of homes

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Jul 2026

French wildfire created a monster cloud, unleashing lightning that ignited more fires

Associated Press 27 Jul 2026

Wildfire spreads near popular French tourist town as thousands are evacuated

Associated Press 23 Jul 2026
A tannery in Cáceres, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Image © Ricardo Funari/Lineair/Greenpeace.

European Commission excludes leather from landmark deforestation law

Shanna Hanbury 16 Jul 2026
A striped dolphin caught in a driftnet off the Azores, North Atlantic.


Seeking swordfish, catching dolphins and whales: EU pushes to rein in driftnets

Victoria Schneider 8 Jul 2026
Left to right, the Netherlands' Minister for Climate Policy and Green Growth, Stientje van Veldhoven; along with Colombia's Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Irene Vélez Torres; and Ana Toni, COP30 CEO, during the launch of the outcome report from the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels at the London Climate Action Week. Image courtesy of Wilder García/ Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia.

Santa Marta report by 57 nations defines rapid fossil fuel transition path

Julian Reingold 2 Jul 2026
Leather bags in Morocco. Image by Tomasz Anusiewicz via Unsplash.

Leaked document shows EU closer to dropping leather from anti-deforestation law

Elisângela Mendonça 1 Jul 2026
Gelada monkeys engage in a group hug in Wilhelma Zoo in Germany. Image © Julie Larsen.

Gelada monkeys huddle in the cold: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 30 Jun 2026

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

Associated Press 30 Jun 2026

Human rights abuse allegations continue to rise in the mining sector, report finds

Maxwell Radwin 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

France confirms its first Ebola case as DRC outbreak continues to grow

Elodie Toto 26 Jun 2026

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

Associated Press 25 Jun 2026

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

Associated Press 22 Jun 2026
Sharks in French Polynesia. Image courtesy of Hannes Klostermann, Ocean Image Bank.

French Polynesia expands ocean protections to 30% of its waters

David Brown 18 Jun 2026
Purple sea urchin on the Gaiola MPA sea floor. Image courtesy of Maurizio Simeone.

How a popular spaghetti dish is threatening Italy’s marine ecosystem

Manuela Callari 16 Jun 2026
The forest of Marston Vale in Bedfordshire in the U.K. where restoration efforts have yielded positive results for biodiversity and the community.

Can a new methodology save the carbon market?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 16 Jun 2026
A flock of greater flamingos wades in the Narta Lagoon, an important wintering site for the species. Image by Stefan Lovgren for Mongabay.

‘Flamingo Revolution’ aims to stop Kushner-backed resort on protected Albanian delta

Stefan Lovgren 12 Jun 2026
Pilot whale (Globicephala melas) off the coast of Spain. Image courtesy of circe.info.

Pilot whales can’t hear each other over ship noise in Strait of Gibraltar, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 12 Jun 2026
Orcas performing in a show at Marineland Antibes in 2013.

France to send its last captive orcas to marine park, not sanctuary

Spoorthy Raman 3 Jun 2026
A European wildcat in Scotland, where 46 captive-bred wildcats have been released as part of an ongoing reintroduction project. The cats are repopulating former habitat in the Cairngorms mountain range in the eastern highlands.

The European wildcat is back. In some places.

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Jun 2026
Atlantic Puffin, Norway. Image courtesy of Ujval Pasupuleti / Ocean Image Bank.

Uncertainty about weakening Atlantic currents isn’t a reason to wait but to act (commentary)

Helen Findlay 2 Jun 2026
Aerial view of a peatland forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Image by Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace.

World Peatland Day honors a crucial ecosystem in the fight against climate change

Bobby Bascomb 2 Jun 2026
Drone image of the Pčinja River before and after the Shuplji Kamen barrier removal in North Macedonia. Images © Eko-svest.

Europe removes record number of dams in 2025 to restore rivers, help species

Shanna Hanbury 1 Jun 2026

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