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Haze blankets Pontianak, a city in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province, on Sept. 3, 2026.

In Southeast Asia, residents grapple with life under Indonesia’s wildfire haze

Choo Ching Yee, Oliver Samson, Irfan Maulana, Krismes Santo Haloho 17 Sep 2026
Mending fishing nets in Vietnam

Fishers bear deep costs of plastic pollution in Vietnam, but could help turn the tide

Carolyn Cowan 16 Sep 2026

Venezuela’s historic oil deal with the US reignites environmental, human rights concerns

Maxwell Radwin 16 Sep 2026

Since US intervention, Venezuela’s illegal mining crisis has only worsened, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 15 Sep 2026
A waste picker works amid thick smoke rising from the vast garbage mounds at Dhaka North City Corporation’s Aminbazar landfill in Savar. She was looking for plastic or other valuable recyclable items there.

Dhaka’s waste-to-energy project faces opposition from pollution-weary residents

Eyamin Sajid 15 Sep 2026
A Ganges river dolphin in Bangladesh.

Against the odds, endangered dolphins survive in Bangladesh’s polluted river

Md Jahidul Islam 14 Sep 2026

Court rules residents of a US city don’t have a constitutional right to lead-free water

Bobby Bascomb 10 Sep 2026
Raina accompanies her only son, Muhammad Raihan (5), who is undergoing treatment at the Banjarmasin Islamic Hospital after experiencing respiratory complaints amid the haze from forest and land fires

Children’s health at risk in south Borneo as El Niño intensifies Indonesia wildfires

Riyad Dafhi Rizki 10 Sep 2026

New analysis maps mercury threat to 951 Amazon communities in three countries

Alexa Vélez, Vanessa Romo, Daniela Quintero Díaz 8 Sep 2026

Carbon credit financing emerges as Africa’s biggest bet for expanding clean cooking

Associated Press 8 Sep 2026

‘Plastic pollution hotspots’ spawn a public health crisis across Latin America

Mark Hillsdon 8 Sep 2026

Marine conservation collides with mining in Indonesia’s biodiversity-rich Moramo Bay

La Ode Risman Hermawan 4 Sep 2026
The riverside in Kuching city center, Sarawak state, Malaysia, is shrouded in thick haze, Friday, Sept. 4, 2026. Image by AP Photo/Xpin Voon.

As Indonesia’s wildfires rage, haze spreads farther across Southeast Asia

Yenni Kwok 4 Sep 2026
An illegal gold mine in Nagan Raya, Aceh.

Illegal gold mining continues in Indonesia’s Aceh despite government crackdown pledge

Junaidi Hanafiah 4 Sep 2026
The southern greater kudu

South Africa’s new gold rush: Big promises, closed books in new carbon frontier

Leonie Joubert 3 Sep 2026
Destroyed crops along the Chambishi Stream after the Sino-Metals Leach Zambia tailings spill, taken around 6 March 2025. Image courtesy of Southern Africa Litigation Center.

Development banks are backing problematic mineral projects, report finds

Elodie Toto 3 Sep 2026

Biomass cooking fuels raise toxic metal exposure risks in Bangladesh, study finds

Usraat Fahmidah 1 Sep 2026
The coal-fired Payra Power Plant. Image by Muhammad Mostafigur Rahman.

Failed environmental safeguards leave coastal Bangladesh facing coal pollution

Rashidul Hasan 28 Aug 2026

‘Devastating’ rush for critical minerals has little to do with green energy: Report

Victoria Schneider 27 Aug 2026
The Belo Monte hydropower dam on the Xingu River in Brazil’s Pará state. Image courtesy of TV Brasil.

Brazil relaxes Belo Monte water rule amid El Niño-fueled Amazon drought risk

Shanna Hanbury 26 Aug 2026

Kenya’s clothing waste raises concerns about potential public health risks

Ouma Elvine Tina 26 Aug 2026
A sponge crab (Sphaerodromia brizops) collected at the Muirfield Seamount, southwest of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

Scientists discover 149 new deep-sea species at remote Indian Ocean seamounts

Emma Smith 26 Aug 2026
A team from the nonprofit ASD Monde responding to the Ebola outbreak in the DRC. Image courtesy of ASD Monde.

Polluted waterways and water shortages complicate the fight against Ebola in the DRC

Elodie Toto 26 Aug 2026

Indonesia charges 72 over fires as haze chokes Borneo and Sumatra

Naina Rao 25 Aug 2026
Rainstorm over Pillcopata in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett Butler/Mongabay.

Plans of Peru’s new administration spur concern among environmentalists

Aimee Gabay 25 Aug 2026
Koalas typically climb into the upper reaches of trees to escape fire

Rescue networks built by fire: Saving animals from Australia’s bushfires

Starre Vartan 24 Aug 2026
A part of Dhaka.

Bangladesh’s green building drive grows beyond factories amid climate pressures

Ibrahim Hossain Ovi 24 Aug 2026

Tapirs, bats and nests: How plastic infiltrates Amazonian wildlife

Tiago da Mota e Silva 18 Aug 2026

Indonesia leads global tally of abuses linked to Chinese transition-mineral investments

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Aug 2026
Residents at Paraíso Grande riverine community, located 30 minutes by fast boat from the city of Humaitá, say the risk of accidents with big convoys increases during the Madeira River’s high-water season, when its banks are flooded.. Image by Karla Mendes/Mongabay.

Fatal barge crashes fuel fear over Madeira River waterway expansion in Brazil

Karla Mendes 17 Aug 2026
Fishers haul a seine net onto the shore of Gampong Jawa.

Aceh’s community fishers struggle to preserve tradition amid blooms of plastic pollution

Nurul Hasanah 17 Aug 2026
Dead fish in the Kafue River near the town of Luanshya, Zambia, a day after the tailings dam spill, Feb. 19, 2025. Image by AP Photo/Richard Kille.

A mine polluted a Zambian river in 2025: Residents continue to live with the impacts

Victoria Schneider 13 Aug 2026

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