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Khun Orwae sorts through the remaining stock in the electrical goods shop where he works.

Thailand’s Hat Yai picks up the pieces in wake of devastating floods (analysis)

Richard Friend, Pakamas Thinphanga 5 Feb 2026
An aerial view of Black River, Jamaica, in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa. Image by AP Photo/Matias Delacroix.

More than 87m people impacted by climate-related disasters in 2025

Shanna Hanbury 29 Jan 2026
Margerie Glacier in Alaska in 2007. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

What can—and cannot—be done to save the world’s glaciers

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Jan 2026
A purse seiner targeting Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico. Image courtesy of Andre Boustany.

Study tracks fishing boats to see how heat waves affect fish distribution

Edward Carver 13 Jan 2026

Cyclone-ravaged Sri Lanka set to apply for ‘loss and damage’ funding

Malaka Rodrigo 31 Dec 2025
A woman stands near a shop damaged during a flood in Aceh province, Indonesia, Nov. 29, 2025.

Indonesia closes 2025 with rising disasters and stalled environmental reform

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Dec 2025
Scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini), photographed in Yonaguni, Japan.

Top ocean news stories of 2025 (commentary)

Alfredo Giron, Ana Spalding, Erin Skoczylas, Vanessa Constant 24 Dec 2025
Vermillion rockfish and soft coral observed during an expedition in Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.

Century-old corals reveal the Pacific Northwest is acidifying faster than expected

Elizabeth Fitt 22 Dec 2025

A flood of logs post-Cyclone Senyar leaves Padang fishers out of work

Jaka Hendra Baittri 20 Dec 2025
A sewage outlet in Bangkok.

Marine heat waves and raw sewage combine to put human health at risk

Sean Mowbray 18 Dec 2025
Community members gather as a tagged Mekong giant catfish (Pangasianodon gigas) is prepared for release in the Cambodian stretch of the Mekong River.

Earth’s freshwater fish face harsh new climate challenges, researchers warn

Stefan Lovgren 17 Dec 2025
In this 2016 image, then-U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power (left), and then- Cameroonian Minister of Forestry and Wildlife Philip Ngole Ngwese (right), attend the destruction of some 2,000 illegally trafficked elephant tusks and ivory products.

African environment programs still try to fill funding gap since USAID freeze

Fanta Mabo 11 Dec 2025
Soda schweinfurthii, a desert subshrub, native to arid regions from Egypt to the Arabian Peninsula.

Can we create new inland seas to lower sea level rise? Interview with researcher Amir AghaKouchak

Jeremy Hance 9 Dec 2025

Global leaders seek action on environment, despite divide

David Akana 8 Dec 2025
Ugandan and Tanzanian EACOP-impacted community representatives attending the hearing at the EACJ. Image courtesy of Stop Eacop Movement.

East African court dismisses controversial oil pipeline case in setback to communities

Elodie Toto 8 Dec 2025
A woman lights her stove to prepare lunch, in the village of Zorro, Burkina Faso.

Fossil fuel failure eclipses Africa’s wins at COP30

David Akana 26 Nov 2025
Banzeiro da Easperanza in Belem. Photo by Lucas Boony

A forest worth more standing: Virgilio Viana on what it will take to protect the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Nov 2025
Dodo bird icon.

A slowdown, not salvation: what new extinction data reveal about the state of life on Earth

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Nov 2025
A shepherd watches livestock near Khi Solar One, a solar thermal plant that converts the sun's light energy into electricity, outside Upington, South Africa. Solar offers vast untapped potential in Africa. Image by AP Photo/Themba Hadebe.

At COP30, Africa can lead the way to a sustainable future — but will it? (commentary)

Samuel Ogunsona 3 Nov 2025
Tree seedlings at a nursery set up in the village of Koyli Alpha to support the Great Green Wall initiative in Senegal © Benedicte Kurzen/NOOR for FAO

Senegal’s great green wall progress falters amid unfulfilled pledges: Study

Yannick Kenné 28 Oct 2025
A Jordanian Bedouin boy leads a tourist on a camel through the ancient city of Petra, Jordan. World Cultural Heritage sites made out of stone are at risk from the effects of severe weather and climate change.

Climate change is wreaking havoc on World Cultural Heritage sites, study finds

Shradha Triveni 27 Oct 2025
A harp seal on ice.

Arctic seals edge closer to extinction as sea ice vanishes

Keith Anthony Fabro 23 Oct 2025

Indonesia’s most vulnerable push for nation’s first Climate Justice Bill

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Oct 2025

Five crucial Earth systems near a tipping point: Report

Bobby Bascomb 14 Oct 2025
A family crosses the flooded streets of Pakistan.

One after another, Pakistan endures successive climate disasters

Waqas Alam Angaria 10 Oct 2025
The Laura Mærsk arrives at port in Copenhagen in September 2023 for a name-giving ceremony.

What fuel will ships burn as they move toward net zero?

Edward Carver 8 Oct 2025
A giant dust storm approaches the metro area of Phoenix, Arizona, Aug. 25, 2025.

Climate change is messing with global wind speeds, impacting planetary health

Sean Mowbray 3 Oct 2025
Redwood forest in California. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Conservation in a hotter world

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Sep 2025
A beaver explores its new home at Tásmam Koyóm in 2023.

When does beaver reintroduction make sense?

John Cannon 23 Sep 2025

Global CO2 storage capacity may be drastically overstated, study finds

John Cannon 22 Sep 2025
The “pink panther,” operated by the company ECOsubsea, conducts a hull cleaning of vessel Frontier Kotobuki in Singapore.

With global rules pending, can the shipping industry get more carbon efficient?

Edward Carver 17 Sep 2025
The cheerful faces of Wulandoni 4 Public Middle School students after harvesting sorghum in the school garden in Tapobali village.

Grassroots community seeds sorghum in eastern Indonesia to adapt to climate change

Ebed de Rosary 17 Sep 2025

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