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Construction site of the TotalEnergies-operated Afungi LNG plant. Image courtesy of Justiça Ambiental.

TotalEnergies moves to restart Mozambique LNG project despite security, eco concerns

Victoria Schneider 13 Nov 2025
Johan Rockström presenting a planet boundaries talk at the 2025 Frontiers Planet Prize event in June.

Ocean acidification threatens planetary health: Interview with Johan Rockström

Julian Reingold 24 Sep 2025

South African Wild Coast communities challenge Shell in Constitutional Court

Victoria Schneider 18 Sep 2025
Joseph Vargas and Wilma Abanil in their home

As gas giants move in, Philippine fishers fight for their seas and survival

Nick Aspinwall 29 Jul 2025
Lena Estrada, Colombia's minister of environment. Image by Eduardo Santamaría.

Oil ‘does not guarantee stability’: Colombia’s environment minister on energy transition

Latoya Abulu 24 Jul 2025
A member of the U’wa Indigenous group in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

U’wa people await implementation of landmark court ruling against Colombian gov’t

Antonio José Paz Cardona 11 Jul 2025
Oil in Amazon

Unnoticed oil & gas threat looms for Indigenous people near Amazon blocks

Fernanda Wenzel 6 Jun 2025
Exploratory oil drilling in the Amazon. Image courtesy of Colin Dunlop.

Why Brazil should abandon its plans for oil and gas in Amazonia (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 5 Jun 2025
Representatives from several associations submit an open letter to the UNFCCC, stating that climate finance must adhere to the principle of historical responsibility for the climate change by wealthy industrialized countries by repaying the 'ecological debt' to developing countries in the Global South.

Carbon capture projects promise a climate fix — and a fossil fuel lifeline

Nithin Coca 4 Jun 2025
Banner image of tiang in South Sudan ©Marcus Westberg/African Parks.

New maps reveal Earth’s largest land mammal migration

Kristine Sabillo 3 Jun 2025
Smoke from a factory.

Ground-level ozone wreaks havoc on warming planet

Mongabay.com 9 May 2025

Indonesia’s gas bet poses risks for economy, health and climate

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 May 2025
Banner image of Pasir Timbul in Raja Ampat, Indonesia, by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

122 companies responsible for a third of present day sea-level rise: Study

Kristine Sabillo 8 Apr 2025
Fishermen returning from their fishing trip in Saint-Louis, Senegal. Image by Elodie Toto/Mongabay.

Gas leak from BP platform off West Africa worries fishermen, environmentalists

Elodie Toto 13 Mar 2025
Suyono shows his biogas reactor surrounded by plants.

Chauffeur at Indonesia energy nonprofit drives uptake of biogas by Java farmers

Toto Sudiarjo 13 Mar 2025

President Biden bans offshore oil and gas drilling for many U.S. waters

Bobby Bascomb 8 Jan 2025

European Commission to review Greek oil activity permits in whale habitat

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Dec 2024

Climate financing should come from oil and gas ‘super’ profits, study says

Maxwell Radwin 2 Dec 2024
Banner image of a wetland in South Africa, by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Recent surge in methane emissions driven by microbes: Study

Kristine Sabillo 20 Nov 2024
Chevron oil field in Indonesia. Banner image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

NGO takes on BlackRock over ‘sustainable’ funds that prop up oil majors

Kristine Sabillo 25 Oct 2024

NGOs say EU Commission must act on Greece oil activity in whale habitat

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Oct 2024
Aerial photo of the environmental conditions caused by an illegal crude oil well exploding in Pasir Putih village, East Aceh Regency, on 26 Apr., 2018.

Sumatran province brings hammer down on illegal oil wells after fatal blasts

Taufik Wijaya 15 Aug 2024

Oil and gas expansion threatens Peru’s isolated Indigenous peoples

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Aug 2024
A man walks past solar panels.

No plans, no progress make Peru’s energy transition uncertain

Yvette Sierra Praeli 1 Aug 2024

Weak banking regulations leave two-thirds of Amazon vulnerable to oil and gas

Maxwell Radwin 11 Jun 2024

Resource wars and the geopolitics behind climate-fueled conflicts

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 16 Apr 2024
Johan Rockström.

Planetary boundary pioneer Johan Rockström awarded 2024 Tyler Prize

Glenn Scherer 29 Feb 2024
The LNG carrier Shahamah in Uraga Channel, Japan.

U.S. natural gas expansion would surrender world to fatal warming, experts say

Shanna Hanbury 27 Feb 2024

U.S. auctions off endangered whale habitat for oil and gas drilling

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Dec 2023

Indonesia pushes carbon-intensive ‘false solutions’ in its energy transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Dec 2023
A waste processing management facility

Chemical recycling of plastic not so fantastic, report finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Nov 2023
Fossils fuels are emblematic of a “take-make-waste” economic model that is pushing humanity beyond safe limits, experts say.

Circular economy poised to go beyond outdated oil, gas and coal, experts say

Sean Mowbray 16 Nov 2023

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