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Tornadoes and storms in central China kill at least 11 people

Associated Press 7 Jul 2026
Residents of small farms in the rural area of Manoel Urbano, one of the state's epicenters of deforestation, fight a forest fire that started on the banks of the BR-364 federal highway. Acre State, Brazil. September 22 2025.These photographs are the first part of a new collection highlighting the impact of black carbon. The photographs are available for free non-profit, educational and editorial use via Climate Visuals. www.climatevisuals.org

Brazil boosts budget and number of firefighters amid strong El Niño forecast

Shanna Hanbury 6 Jul 2026

Targeted conservation in Brazil could help protect the Amazon’s flying rivers

Constance Malleret 2 Jul 2026
Fire in a peat forest in Kalimantan. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

A possible strong El Niño fuels fears for fires across Indonesian tropical peatlands

Rendy Tisna 2 Jul 2026
A woman collects water from a pond in Bangladesh, where drinkable water is becoming increasingly scarce due to salt contamination from sea level rise. Image courtesy of Abu Siddique.

Sea level rise is ruining coastal Bangladesh with salty water (commentary)

AL Sharia 1 Jul 2026

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
A fisher offloads gear in front of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal operated by state-owned energy company PTT Public Company Limited at the Map Ta Phut Industrial Port in Rayong province, Thailand, on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. Once completed, the Burapa power plant will receive natural gas via pipeline from a terminal at the port. Image by Andy Ball for Mongabay.

Thai farmers fear water woes from planned LNG plant

Gerald Flynn 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
African baobab (Adansonia digitata), Chikwawa district, Malawi. Image by Rob Palmer via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Three years after Cyclone Freddy, farms remain under water in Malawi’s Elephant Marsh

Charles Mpaka 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

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

Associated Press 25 Jun 2026

New analysis breaks down 2025 Amazon deforestation, with good news and bad news

Maxwell Radwin 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
Farmers of Bangladesh harvest ripe rice crop

Bangladesh’s lightning death toll persists as years of gov’t safeguards fail

Sadiqur Rahman 23 Jun 2026

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

Associated Press 22 Jun 2026
Rain over the Amazon. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

South America’s farms depend, in part, on a healthy Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jun 2026

Eastern Washington wildfire forces evacuations and destroys homes

Associated Press 17 Jun 2026

Rain along the Gulf Coast could become the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season

Associated Press 16 Jun 2026

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 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

Kenya is Africa’s first country to receive crucial climate disaster funding

Lynet Otieno 11 Jun 2026

Sri Lanka’s recent drowning deaths linked to aftermath of extreme weather events

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 10 Jun 2026

Indonesia’s grassroots farmers face increased unpredictability, experts say

Naina Rao 10 Jun 2026
Turquoise dwarf gecko (Lygodactylus williamsi). Image © Simon via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

How trade bans and local conservation helped save a dazzling blue gecko

Manuel Fonseca 6 Jun 2026

Scientists warn of climate blind spot as U.S. dismantles ocean sensors

Naina Rao 4 Jun 2026
Harsh sun floods the homes of local families. Their belongings are either stored away or ruined by the storm. Family artifacts and heirlooms now litter living spaces as jagged wood hangs from rafters. Image by World Central Kitchen via Flickr (CC BY 4.0).

From the wreckage of Super Typhoon Sinlaku, Pacific Islanders slowly recover

Anita Hofschneider 3 Jun 2026
Survivors inspect clothings they salvaged at a village affected by a flash flood in Batang Toru, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

Survivors sue Indonesian government over response to catastrophic Sumatra floods

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Jun 2026

Intense heat during Mecca’s spring threatens millions of Hajj pilgrims

Naina Rao 1 Jun 2026

Parts of Europe swelter in record May heat as deaths at amateur sports events spur warnings

Associated Press 26 May 2026
A tiger-striped tree frog (Callimedusa tomopterna) in the Brazilian Amazon. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Amazon resilient to fire, but diversity loss still a threat, study finds

Suzana Camargo 21 May 2026
A Khudi Bari built by residents living along the Jamuna River. Image courtesy of Tabassaum Studio.

In flood-prone Bangladesh, tiny homes are built to move with the river

Mongabay.com 21 May 2026

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