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Mangroves planted in Satkhira district.

Bangladeshi coastal communities plant mangroves as a shield against cyclones

Abu Siddique 3 Jun 2022
Young people at Macatumbalen are trained by their parents to co-manage the community nursery where the tree seedlings are grown and regularly watered.

Devastated by a typhoon, community foresters in the Philippines find little support

Keith Anthony Fabro 23 May 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

Philippine quarries under scrutiny after deadly mudflow buries homes

Mavic Conde 19 Feb 2021
A world turned weird. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Top 10 environmental news stories of 2020

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Dec 2020

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

Mongabay.com 10 Mar 2020

Melting Arctic sea ice may be altering winds, weather at equator: study

Gloria Dickie 27 Jan 2020

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

Gloria Dickie 4 Dec 2019

For the Philippines, a warming world means stronger typhoons, fewer fish

Mongabay.com 16 Oct 2019

Philippines freezes climate studies loan over scrutiny of Duterte drug war

Mongabay.com 9 Oct 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

Muskox and other Arctic mammals are feeling the heat of climate change

Gloria Dickie 23 Jan 2018

As 2017 hurricane season ends, scientists assess tropical forest harm

Claire Salisbury 11 Dec 2017

Trees provide ecosystem services worth $500 million to the world’s megacities

Mike Gaworecki 7 Sep 2017

New study: Climate change shifts timing of floods in Europe

John Cannon 10 Aug 2017

NASA and NOAA: 2016 hottest recorded year ever

John Cannon 23 Jan 2017

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