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Organizations tackle droughts, floods in Brazil by planting forests

Ellen Nemitz 18 Nov 2024
A plastic beverage bottle floats in the shallow waters of Sand Island in Hawaii. Image by David Slater / NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program Marine Debris Team, 2015.

How ‘waste colonialism’ underpins Asia’s plastic problem (commentary)

Coleen Salamat 18 Nov 2024

Locals in a Brazilian valley report health issues after arrival of lithium mine

Caio Guatelli 18 Nov 2024
DRC mines might be poisoning pregnant women

DRC mines might be poisoning pregnant women

Denise Maheho, Didier Makal 18 Nov 2024

Cobalt mining for green energy risks women’s reproductive health in DRC

Didier Makal, Denise Mahelo 18 Nov 2024

Cobalt Capital

Mongabay.com 16 Nov 2024

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Nov 2024
A burrowing anemone in the seabed.

Mapping ‘gloop and mud’ sheds light on seabed carbon storage

Mark Hillsdon 14 Nov 2024
A firefighter wears a breathing mask after the Maui fire to protect himself from toxic vapors.

As global fire risk rises, modern homes become toxic plastic traps

Alden Wicker 14 Nov 2024

Fresh calls for oil giants to pay $12 billion for Niger Delta pollution

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Nov 2024
Tastefully-hatted Desmond Alugnoa smiles at project manager Jakob Attakpah in front of an Earthshot Prize banner. Image courtesy Earthshot Prize.

From landfill to limelight, Ghana waste entrepreneurs win Earthshot Prize

Petro Kotzé 14 Nov 2024

Coral biodiversity hotspot at risk from fossil fuel expansion, report warns

Ashley Yeong 13 Nov 2024
Sunset and a Maersk container ship.

Shipping emissions reduction sheds light on marine cloud geoengineering

Claire Asher 13 Nov 2024
Todd Smith dreamt of being an airline pilot since he was five years old. He left the aviation industry in 2020, and is now working to reform it. Image by Helena Dolby. Courtesy of Todd Smith.

Grounded: A pilot who quit flying to help tackle climate change works to change aviation, for good

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 12 Nov 2024
A bobcat navigates a snow-covered branch along the Madison River in Yellowstone National Park.

Bobcats are back, and they’re helping protect people from zoonotic disease

Christine Woodside 12 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
Wild male saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) visiting a waterhole at the Stepnoi Sanctuary, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. Photo credit: Andrey Giljov [CC BY-SA 4.0]

Earthshot Prize names 5 winners working on environmental solutions

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Nov 2024
Illegal mining in the Munduruku Indigenous Territory in 2020. Image by Marizilda Cruppe/Amazônia Real/Amazon Watch.

Brazil sets a date to remove illegal miners from Munduruku land, more details await

Jenny Gonzales 6 Nov 2024
A U.S. dairy farm. Global methane emissions have increased rapidly over the past five years.

Atmospheric methane removal: A promising but challenging climate solution

Sean Mowbray 6 Nov 2024
Oil palm plantation

New standard for ethical palm oil faces backlash before it’s even issued

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Nov 2024
A woman pulls a large bag filled with plastic in a landfill in Bangladesh.

U.S. toughens stance on plastics production in run-up to key treaty summit

Charles Pekow 5 Nov 2024
Gustina Salim Rambe with a lawyer.

Indonesian mother imprisoned for protesting palm oil factory next to school

Sri Wahyuni 5 Nov 2024
A fallen tree in the Amazon.

Brazil researchers boost timber traceability with new chemical analysis

Fernanda Wenzel 4 Nov 2024
Wollastonite spreading in Canada.

Calls for caution as enhanced rock weathering shows carbon capture promise

Sean Mowbray 29 Oct 2024

For DRC’s artisanal miners, promise of formalization has yielded little

Didier Makal 29 Oct 2024
Farmer Rachael Njeri collects soils samples on her land. She has started growing forage strips on her farm which prevent soil erosion and provide feed for her cattle. Image by CIAT/GeorginaSmith via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

In Kenya, a river restoration initiative pays for itself, and then some

Ochieng' Ogodo 29 Oct 2024
Nets, ropes, buoys and other bits of fishing equipment bursting out of decaying bags.

Startups replace plastics with mushrooms in the seafood industry

Claire Turrell 29 Oct 2024

Trial begins in U.K. for victims of Minas Gerais dam disaster

Maxwell Radwin 28 Oct 2024
The First Environmental Court’s inspection of the Tilopozo wetlands, and the La Punta and La Brava lagoon systems, among others.

Chilean Indigenous association participates in key study for lawsuit against mining

Barinia Montoya 28 Oct 2024

Polar bears are suffering paw injuries likely driven by the warming Arctic: Study

Mongabay.com 25 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

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