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Banner image of civil society groups protesting at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Image courtesy of 350.org.

With COP29 letdown, climate activists pin their hopes on Brazil

Kristine Sabillo 26 Nov 2024
Protesters bearing signs reading "Global North, pay up" and "Global South, hold the line" outside the plenary hall during COP29, Baku, Azerbaijan. Image by Kiara Worth/UN Climate Change via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) https://www.flickr.com/photos/unfccc/54158868096/in/dateposted/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

COP29 ends in $300 billion deal, widespread dismay — and eyes toward COP30

David Akana 25 Nov 2024
Banner image of AIIB headquarters by N509FZ via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

$125b in ‘climate finance’ funds polluting, rights-violating projects: Report

Kristine Sabillo 25 Nov 2024

Seeking solutions in Indigenous knowledge: Interview with the Maldives’ Mohamed Nasheed

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 23 Nov 2024
Blackwater oxbow lake in the Peruvian Amazon.

Prosecutors urge suspension of Amazon carbon projects, citing Mongabay investigation

Fernanda Wenzel 22 Nov 2024
Cityscape of Seattle, U.S., with trees in the foreground.

Cities are climate solution leaders: Interview with Vancouver’s Gregor Robertson

Justin Catanoso 22 Nov 2024
Macaws flying over the rainforest.

Let’s rethink debt-for-nature swaps toward greater sustainability & integrity (commentary)

Daniel Ortega-Pacheco, Jonathan Glennie 22 Nov 2024

Young climate advocates against carbon markets at COP29

David Akana 20 Nov 2024
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‘Scratching the surface’ of Nepal butterfly research: Interview with Sanej Suwal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 20 Nov 2024
A female mountain gorilla carrying her baby on her back.

Biodiversity credit approaches multiply as concerns cloud confidence

John Cannon 19 Nov 2024

Biden tours Amazon Rainforest, pledges funding in advance of Trump

Shanna Hanbury 19 Nov 2024

Activists fear supercharged ‘business as usual’ under Indonesia’s new president

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Nov 2024

African Development Bank chief calls for ‘green-rich’ continent to also be ‘cash-rich’

David Akana 14 Nov 2024
Banner image of deforestation in Malaysia, by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

WWF gives banks a tool to see if they’re financing environmental crime

Kristine Sabillo 14 Nov 2024

‘We are not asking for handouts,’ Rwandan President Kagame says at COP29

David Akana 13 Nov 2024
Banner image of a coral reef in Indonesia by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

New ‘Cali Fund’ plans to make companies pay for benefiting from nature

Kristine Sabillo 12 Nov 2024
COP29 entry at Baku.

COP29: With public climate finance shortfall, is investment capital a way forward?

Justin Catanoso 11 Nov 2024
Families are migrating from Gardi Sugdub, a tiny island belonging to the Indigenous Guna Yala people of Panama, packed with houses to the edge of the water, due to sea level rise.

What Indigenous leaders want from the COP29 U.N. climate conference

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 11 Nov 2024

As Venezuela’s crisis rolls on, its wildlife is increasingly at risk

Mie Hoejris Dahl 7 Nov 2024
Banner image of bats in a Malaysian limestone cave. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Mountain highland bats lack data, face climate threats: Study

Kristine Sabillo 6 Nov 2024
Woman carrying a solar pannel near Yangambi, DRC.

Africa needs COP29 funding & international finance reform to manage climate change (commentary)

David Akana 4 Nov 2024
The motto of COP16, the U.N. biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia, was “Paz con la Naturaleza” — “Peace with Nature.”

COP16 biodiversity meeting recap: Progress made, but finance lags

Justin Catanoso 4 Nov 2024
Banner image of Super Typhoon Kong-Rey via PAGASA.

At least 146 dead in back-to-back tropical cyclones in Philippines

Kristine Sabillo 4 Nov 2024
Mammalogists often use ear tags to identify individuals in their research. But Echidnas do not have external ears to attach a tag. Opiang used color-coded plastic tubing, glued to spines to identify individuals (visible on the right forelimb). Quiet, rare, nocturnal, hard-to-tag and found in remotest parts of New Guinea, field study of echidnas presents tremendous challenges. Photo by Muse Opiang

With rare mammal tourism, observing means conserving (commentary)

Charles Foley, Jon Hall 1 Nov 2024

COP16: ‘A fund unlike any other’ will pay tropical nations to save forests

Justin Catanoso 30 Oct 2024

International panel launches guidelines for ‘high integrity’ biodiversity credits

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Oct 2024
Banner image of Turkana women from Kenya by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Women-led groups remain ‘severely underfunded’ for climate action: Report

Kristine Sabillo 29 Oct 2024

Global biodiversity financiers strategize at COP16 to end ‘perverse subsidies’

Justin Catanoso 28 Oct 2024
Flooded forest, Peruvian Amazon. Image by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Carbon markets must recognize Indigenous ‘high forest, low deforestation’ areas (commentary)

24 Oct 2024

Study: REDD+ doesn’t work without Indigenous peoples, but fails to engage them

Sarah Brown 24 Oct 2024
Indigenous women of Guatemala’s Polochic Valley

Here’s how to reform multilateral funding to get more money directly to communities (commentary)

Sushil Raj, Minnie Degawan, Rony Brodsky 23 Oct 2024

Australia’s Global ‘Nature Positive’ Summit features Indigenous voices, but little government action

Mike DiGirolamo 22 Oct 2024

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