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Honduras pays the climate cost as its forests disappear and storms rise

Mie Hoejris Dahl 9 Apr 2025

As Acapulco’s mangroves disappear, Mexico takes strides to protect its coastal forests

Gonzalo Ortuño López 8 Apr 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

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

Letícia Klein 11 Feb 2025

As 25 Earth vital signs worsen, scientists warn of ‘irreversible climate disaster’

Sean Mowbray 15 Oct 2024
A Bangladesh farm during a thunderstorm.

As lightning strike fatalities increase, Bangladesh still has no reliable preventive measures

Abu Siddique 1 Mar 2024
Indigenous farmer Leopoldo Lebuna weeds his lowland farm

In Philippines, climate change tests Indigenous farming like never before

Keith Anthony Fabro 4 Aug 2023
Elder women members of the Kiday Farmers Community Association' proudly show a variety of heirloom seeds they store to support organic farmers in their riverside hamlet in Quezon province.

Organic farming, and community spirit, buoy a typhoon-battered Philippine town

Keith Anthony Fabro 15 May 2023
A boat in a salt marsh.

Global study reveals widespread salt marsh decline

Sean Mowbray 19 Dec 2022
Temporary shelters.

Deadly landslides prompt Philippine president to call for tree planting

Bong S. Sarmiento 9 Nov 2022
Residents of Satkhira's coastal communities.

As stronger storms hit Bangladesh farmers, banks are climate collateral damage

Maksuda Aziz 15 Aug 2022
Mangroves planted in Satkhira district.

Bangladeshi coastal communities plant mangroves as a shield against cyclones

Abu Siddique 3 Jun 2022
A landslide near Manizales in the Central Andes. In 2011, a landslide broke a pipe supplying water from the cloud forests and paramos into city, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without access to water for 10 days.

In landslide-prone Colombia, forests can serve as an inexpensive shield

Gianluca Cerullo 13 Apr 2022

In Puerto Rico, a marathon effort builds to restore mangroves and dunes

Liz Yanira Del Valle Huertas 17 Mar 2022
A view of former fishing village Fuveme from Havui. Image by Erica Ayisi for Mongabay.

As rising seas destroy Ghana’s coastal communities, researchers warn against a seawall-only solution

Erica Ayisi 4 Mar 2022

In trio of storms hitting Western Europe, role of climate change is complicated

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Feb 2022

Two storms in two weeks carve trail of death and destruction in Madagascar

Mongabay.com 7 Feb 2022

Typhoon exposes biodiversity haven Palawan’s vulnerability — and resilience

Keith Anthony Fabro 24 Jan 2022
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Coastal deforestation fuels more frequent storms in West Africa, study warns

Mongabay.com 11 Jan 2022

Women on storm-hit Philippine island lead Indigenous effort to restore mangroves

Keith Anthony Fabro 7 Oct 2021

US economy will take biggest hit if we continue with business as usual: report

Mongabay.com 10 Mar 2020

World is fast losing its cool: Polar regions in deep trouble, say scientists

Gloria Dickie 4 Dec 2019

As climate chaos escalates in Indian Country, feds abandon tribes

Saul Elbein 1 Jul 2019

Climate change may make hurricanes and cyclones deadlier, study finds

Gianluca Cerullo 16 May 2019

Study finds people apt to shrug off extreme weather as normal

Mongabay.com 28 Feb 2019

Cyclone harmed Fijian crab fishery in 2016, research finds

Mongabay.com 3 Jan 2019

Drone 3D models help assess risk of turtle nesting beaches to sea level rise

David Klinges 27 Dec 2018

Critically endangered Philippine eagle hangs on despite horde of threats

Brad Miller 24 Dec 2018

Dress like a polar bear: learning to love muskoxen at 15 below zero

Gloria Dickie 25 Sep 2018

In Malaysia, an island drowns in its own development

Keith Schneider 26 Jul 2018

Climate change could be intensifying dust storms in India, experts say

Mayank Aggarwal 14 May 2018

Beyond polar bears: Arctic animals share in vulnerable climate future

Gloria Dickie 7 Mar 2018

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