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Farmers gather at Bhimruli guava market for selling their produces.

Guava yields in South Asia shrink due to unpredictable heat & rainfall

Sadiqur Rahman 20 Oct 2025
An elk in the Rocky Mountains, where the headwaters of the Colorado River lie. Image courtesy of Fin and Fur Films.

‘We can have abundant rivers and wildlife’: Director of ‘The American Southwest’ on new film

John Cannon 15 Oct 2025

Local divers pick away at Lake Malawi’s underwater garbage problem

Charles Mpaka 14 Oct 2025
In February, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva praised planned investments by Vale during a public event in Pará state, urging the company to ensure dam safety. Image courtesy of Ricardo Stuckert/Presidência da República.

Copper rush pushes Vale to ramp up mining near Amazonian protected areas

André Schröder 14 Oct 2025
Mountain yellow-legged frogs have a wide array of color variations, ranging from yellow and brown to red and gray.

Uphill battle to save California’s endangered mountain yellow-legged frog

Sean Mowbray 10 Oct 2025

Cameroon inaugurates controversial dam despite local dissent

Yannick Kenné 10 Oct 2025
Cassandra Garduño in a wooden boat.

Women in Mexico step up to protect the island farms traditionally inherited by men

Teresa de Miguel, Associated Press 8 Oct 2025
Fishers with a net at Lake Victoria in Kenya.

Africa’s largest freshwater lake could be site of Kenya’s nuclear power plant

Elodie Toto 8 Oct 2025
A fisher mends his net at Yettinahalla.

Turning a stream into a river: Inside India’s Yettinaholé diversion project

Shradha Triveni 2 Oct 2025
A participant plants local green plants in a park as part of Ethiopia's Green Legacy Initiative, which aims to plant 7.5 billion trees by the end of the year, at Jifara Ber site, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Thursday, July 31, 2025.

There’s far less land available for reforestation than we think, study finds

Justin Catanoso 2 Oct 2025
Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica.

Scientists weigh giant sea curtain to shield ‘Doomsday Glacier’ from melting

Gloria Dickie 24 Sep 2025
Gold mine in the Dimonika Biosphere Reserve, the Republic of the Congo

What Republic of Congo’s gold rush is leaving behind

Berdy Pambou 17 Sep 2025
Vilma de Callata, 45, draws water for her animals in Tusaquillas, Jujuy Province, Argentina, Sunday, April 23, 2023. Her native Kolla people have spent centuries climbing deep into the mountains of northern Argentina in search of a simple substance: Fresh drinking water. Image by Photo/Rodrigo Abd.

In Argentina, lithium exploration proceeds amid community disputes

Aimee Gabay 10 Sep 2025
Workers perform maintenance next to pools of brine slowly turning into lithium at the Albemarle lithium mine in Chile's Atacama desert. Photo by: AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd.

Lithium mining leaves severe impacts in Chile, but new methods exist: Report

Aimee Gabay 10 Sep 2025
A man walks past kelp in the Pacific Ocean at La Jolla Shores, San Diego.

Post-Blob, California’s kelp crisis isn’t going away

David Helvarg 9 Sep 2025
A walk through the Sardinilla Experiment.

New study pinpoints tree-planting hotspots for climate and biodiversity gains

Marina Martinez 3 Sep 2025
The Kapawi River, soon to be the first “solar river” in the Amazon, is a lifeline for more than 1,000 Indigenous peoples and is home to endangered pink river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis). Image by Andrés Cornejo.

An Indigenous-led solar canoe initiative expands across the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 1 Sep 2025
An Indian pond heron or paddybird (Ardeola grayii) in a pond in Nepal.

In Nepal, artificial ponds offer drought relief despite lingering doubts

Mukesh Pokhrel 28 Aug 2025
A sperm whale.

Ocean-based carbon storage ramps up, bringing investment and concern

Sean Mowbray 19 Aug 2025
Yellowfin tuna, one of the seven major commercial tuna species, attempt to outswim a seine net in the Seychelles. Fishing is the second largest industry on this small Pacific Island, and like many other Pacific Islands, it faces major revenue losses as tuna shift their migration patterns into the high seas due to climate change.

How will fisheries change in a hotter world? Experts share

Claudia Geib 13 Aug 2025
Waterfowl at Patlai River in Tanguar Haor, Bangladesh.

Global wetlands conference results in resolutions for protection & restoration

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 12 Aug 2025

Restoration brings back fresh water, wildlife to degraded páramos in Ecuador

Ana Cristina Alvarado 7 Aug 2025
The sun rises on the Salween River, which serves as a vital lifeline for Karen communities on both sides of the Thai-Myanmar border. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Asia’s longest free-flowing river faces threats of dams and diversions

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2025
Hydropower dam in Kulekhani, one of the larges reservoir-type power stations in Nepal. Image by Abhaya Raj Joshi/ Mongabay.

Nepal’s hydropower developers watch closely as court nears key verdict

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 Aug 2025
AnIndian pitta (Pitta brachyura)

Can rainwater-fed ponds revive Bangladesh’s hilly streams?

Sadiqur Rahman 1 Aug 2025

Sacred sites & cultural practices key to Indonesia fish conservation: Study

Basten Gokkon 23 Jul 2025
Heavy rainfall in Colombia and Venezuela caused deadly landslides and widespread flooding in June. A new analysis now points to rapid urbanization, deforestation, mining and overgrazing as having reduced the region’s climate resilience. 
 “The rapid growth of population and informal settlements in areas prone to landslides, particularly in Colombia, puts people and infrastructure at risk,” the World Weather Attribution (WWA), a network of scientists evaluating extreme weather events, said in its latest rapid analysis. It said the informal communities are growing as people seek livelihoods in cities or are displaced due to conflict. Roop Singh, report co-author from the Netherlands-based Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, said at a media briefing that pasture- and agriculture-driven deforestation rose over the past two decades, increasing “the risk of landslides because tree roots are no longer binding and anchoring the soils.”
 The heavy rains during the last week of June triggered widespread flooding and damage in Colombia; a landslide in Antioquia department killed 27 people. In Venezuela, rivers overflowed, and smaller landslides cut off rural communities. WWA said in its report that rains in these regions had persisted since April, and that the June rain fell on already saturated ground where the deadly landslide occurred, and in rivers with already high levels of water. The scientists examined the total rainfall from April-June this year over the Magdalena River catchment in Colombia and the Falcón and Maracaibo basins in Venezuela. They also studied data on the accumulated rainfall from June 20-24 in the affected states in the Venezuelan Llanos, a grassland plain. “Neither events were particularly extreme,” Mariam Zachariah, co-author and research associate at Imperial College London, said at the briefing. The WWA analysis showed the heavy rain that fell in June is common, expected every 10 years in Colombia and every three years in Venezuela. The scientists also used climate models to understand the influence of human-induced climate change on the rains, but the findings were inconclusive. Instead, the models projected a drying trend for Colombia and mixed results for Venezuela. Friederike Otto, co-author and climate science professor at Imperial College London, said not being able to show clear linkages to climate change doesn’t mean there’s no influence. The researchers attributed some of the uncertainty to a lack of long-term observational weather data and weather stations in the region. “Unfortunately, extreme weather is not well understood in northern South America,” Paola A. Arias, a professor at the University of Antioquia, said in a statement. “We urgently need more investment in climate science to understand shifting risks and prepare for what’s ahead. More science will save lives." Zachariah said Colombia and Venezuela must prepare for both rainfall and drought, and build resilience to extreme weather. Banner image: People look at their destroyed home after a deadly landslide was triggered by heavy rain in Colombia’s Antioquia department on June 25, 2025. Image by AP Photo/Fredy Amariles.

Deadly landslide and flooding in Colombia and Venezuela linked to rapid urbanization

Kristine Sabillo 18 Jul 2025
Amanda L. Cordeiro (left), a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Minnesota and Daniela F. Cusack, Associate Professor in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability at Colorado State University at one of their research sites to investigate how root systems react to climatic changes.

Tropical forest roots show strain as changes aboveground filter below

Petro Kotzé 15 Jul 2025
Year-round, the Katakhal carries pitch-black water to the Akhaura locality. A fisher sets up his fishing net.

Bangladeshi village grapples with contaminated water flowing in from India

Abu Siddique, Sadiqur Rahman 3 Jul 2025

As Thailand’s fishing cats face habitat loss & conflict, experts seek resolution

Carolyn Cowan 3 Jul 2025
The abandoned village of Samjung, with ancient caves carved in the cliffs in the background, is seen in the Mustang region, 462 kilometers west of Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Ancient Himalayan village relocates as climate shifts reshape daily life

Associated Press 1 Jul 2025
Julio and Isaac Blanco fish octopus along the coast of Asturias, Spain, using traditional nasas cages.

Two coasts, one struggle for octopus fishers battling overfishing and warming waters

Davide Mancini, Paola Margu 30 Jun 2025

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