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Two people sit in conversation on a bench beside a path along a stream in Karurua forest, Nairobi, Kenya. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ninara/51944328733/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

African forum on urban forests calls for greater access to green spaces

Victoria Schneider 25 Mar 2025
The Stanley Plateau glacier in 2022. Africa’s remaining tropical glaciers are rapidly disappearing. Image courtesy of Project Pressure.

Africa’s last tropical glaciers are melting away along with local livelihoods

Sean Mowbray 21 Mar 2025
Why are the British flooding parts of their coast? Once farmland protected by flood defenses, Steart Marshes in southwest England now thrives as a restored salt marsh. As the defences weakened, the land became increasingly vulnerable to flooding. Instead of rebuilding defenses, conservationists, the government and local communities made a bold choice to let the sea reclaim the landscape. Just over 10 years ago the sea wall was breached, allowing the sea to take over the land, transforming the area into a vital wetland habitat. Salt marshes, which have declined by 85% in the U.K. since the 19th century, play a crucial role in coastal ecosystems. They provide shelter for wetland wildlife, act as natural flood defenses by absorbing storm surges, stabilize coastlines against erosion, and store carbon to help combat climate change. Managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Steart Marshes now provides a model for future restoration projects, proving that working with nature can protect communities while rebuilding lost habitats.

Why are the British flooding parts of their coast?

Leo Plunkett, Sandy Watt 19 Mar 2025
Five-day accumulated rainfall from Feb. 16-20, 2025, over Botswana. Image courtesy of World Weather Attribution.

Deadly Botswana rains made more likely by climate change, rapid urbanization

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Mar 2025
More than 200 people were killed in Valencia by the 2024 flood. The army joined rescue efforts in the worst flash floods ever to hit Spain, leaving victims in the ravaged region begging for aid.

A tale of two cities: What drove 2024’s Valencia and Porto Alegre floods?

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 12 Mar 2025
Scorched earth on the banks of the drought-stricken Xingu River on September 12th, 2024. Photo © Marizilda Cruppe / Greenpeace.

Will Brazil’s President Lula wake up to the climate crisis? (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 12 Mar 2025
Banner image of Cyclone Alfred as it nears the Australian coast, by NASA via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Flash floods, blackouts and a ‘sharknado’ as Cyclone Alfred lashes Australia

Kristine Sabillo 11 Mar 2025
Trees fallen due to winds and fooding.

Indonesia families evicted for Jakarta PIK2 project flooded at relocation site

Irfan Maulana 7 Mar 2025

In a seasonally flooded Amazon forest, jaguars take to the trees

Tiago da Mota e Silva 4 Mar 2025
A flooded field in Lake Province, Chad, in October 2024. The Lutheran World Foundation (LWF) is working with farmers groups as part of their three year "Gender Transformative Climate Adaptation" project. Image courtesy of Marie Renaux/LWF

Lake Chad isn’t shrinking — but climate change is causing other problems

Ruth Kamnitzer 28 Feb 2025

Brazil has seen a 460% increase in climate-related disasters since the 1990s

Letícia Klein 11 Feb 2025
Banner image of Tropical Cyclone Faida from the Met Office.

Cyclone Elvis kills 5 in Madagascar as another storm approaches

Kristine Sabillo 4 Feb 2025
Banner image of St. Bernard's Church in Ireland following Storm Éowyn, by Riversting via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Explosive ‘bomb cyclone’ pummels Europe, hitting UK hardest

Kristine Sabillo 28 Jan 2025

Rising deforestation threatens rare species in Indonesia’s ancient Lake Poso

Liz Kimbrough 22 Jan 2025

Global temperature in 2024 hits record 1.55°C over pre-industrial level

Shanna Hanbury 14 Jan 2025

At least 11,500 deaths linked to extreme weather in 2024

Shanna Hanbury 9 Jan 2025

Climate change fueled record extreme weather events in 2024

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Jan 2025

Southeast Asia in review: 2024

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 30 Dec 2024

How the Sahel junta is responding to climate change amid political isolation

Robert Bociaga 27 Dec 2024

Across continents, Mongabay fellows share insights from reporting in the field

Michael Esquer, Swati Thapa, Tarinipre Francis 23 Dec 2024
Residents from Gwadar look on the sipping development at the coast.

Balochistan’s Gwadar city sits at the crossroads of climate and conflict

Waqas Alam Angaria 20 Dec 2024
Members of the Nadupoi Women Group gather for a group photo in Olooloitikosh village, Kajiado, Kenya. Image by Juliet Ojwang for Mongabay.

From Bhutan to Nigeria & Kenya, women endure climate change differently than men

Choki Wangmo, Juliet Akoth Ojwang, Karen Coates, Tarinipre Francis 20 Dec 2024

Officials pledge zoo review after Sumatran elephant is killed in Bali flood

Luh De Suriyani 19 Dec 2024

Climate change fuels African floods that hit harder in vulnerable regions

Fanta Mabo 13 Dec 2024
Protesters in Thailand

Thai citizens protest plans for Mekong dam amid transboundary concerns

Carolyn Cowan 10 Dec 2024
The Missouri River floods Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base in March 2019. Photo credit: Rachelle Blake on Wikimedia Commons

Eastern U.S. floods could persist longer toward the end of the century

Jenna Ahart 4 Dec 2024

For a storm-prone Philippine city, flood control is about more than infrastructure

Keith Anthony Fabro 3 Dec 2024
Banner image of high river waters in Cardiff, Wales, by Sionk via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

India, U.K. deal with storms that are ‘symptom of our changing climate’

Kristine Sabillo 28 Nov 2024
Indigenous women look at their living space disappear to become Lambo Dam.

Dam displaces farmers as drought parches Indonesia’s Flores Island

Moh. Tamimi 19 Nov 2024

Organizations tackle droughts, floods in Brazil by planting forests

Ellen Nemitz 18 Nov 2024

At least 94 dead as worst storm in decades hits Spain’s Valencia region

Shanna Hanbury 30 Oct 2024

Six months after its worst floods, Rio Grande do Sul works to bounce back

Shi En Kim 28 Oct 2024

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