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Tropical Storm Isaias forms, is forecast to become a hurricane and hit US Gulf Coast this week

Associated Press 7 Oct 2026

Solar power helps Amazon communities ditch diesel and prepare for El Niño drought

Associated Press 6 Oct 2026
An apartment demolition and remodeling worker pushes a cart loaded with rubble in Hong Kong on Sept. 18, 2026.

As Hong Kong heats up, calls grow for tougher rules to protect outdoor workers

June Wong 2 Oct 2026

Tokyo records historic 35-day rain streak driven by El Niño and stalled fronts

Naina Rao 30 Sep 2026
A Malala drift area resident feeding his goats

Farmers in South Africa’s Limpopo face unpredictable rainfall, uncertain futures

Bernard Chiguvare 25 Sep 2026
Galapagos penguin swimming in sea

Global ocean breaks records with 100 days of heat as El Niño adds new threat

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 Sep 2026
Commuters wade through heavy floodwater after a downpour in Lagos. Image courtesy of Folakemi Olaoni.

Rapid wetland loss and ‘real estate boom’ increasing flood risk in Lagos

Kingsley Charles 2 Sep 2026
A woman lifts a jug she filled with water from a tanker truck amid rationing caused by drought, in the Cupey sector of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo)

Climate change parches Puerto Rico and Jamaica in rare early wet season drought

Naina Rao 1 Sep 2026
A vendor cools herself with a portable electric fan as she waits for customers at her souvenirs store, in Beijing, China, Tuesday, June 2, 2026.

Six things to know about Asia’s heatwave and the health impacts

Andrew Jeong 21 Aug 2026

Climate change drove extreme July heat in European seas, study finds

Naina Rao 20 Aug 2026

Infrastructure and land use behind devastating India monsoon floods

Naina Rao 14 Aug 2026
Street trees shading an asphalt road in Málaga, Spain. While trees are the obvious go-to cooling solution, their upkeep can be expensive.

Urban heat islands have solutions; many tropical cities can’t afford them

Adam Litchkofski 13 Aug 2026

Climate change boosted Spain wildfire risk 20-fold, research shows

Naina Rao 31 Jul 2026

Study suggests the threat of mold-associated illnesses may be underappreciated

Associated Press 29 Jul 2026
View over a wind farm operated by Vattenfall, an energy company based in Sweden. Circular economy designs have focused largely on creating recyclable turbine blades. Experts say extending these principles across the supply chain could cut costs by increasing wind farms’ longevity and reducing material usage. Image courtesy of Vattenfall.

Scaling up offshore wind requires overcoming global and local challenges

Sean Mowbray 27 Jul 2026
Shy albatross (Thalassarche cauta).

Extreme weather dampens breeding success for marine predators in Tasmania: study

Madeline Shaw 27 Jul 2026

Vietnam’s coffee boom fueled by decades of deforestation, report finds

Naina Rao 22 Jul 2026
Banner image: Researcher Nelson Jaén analyzes growth rings from a mahogany tree (Swietenia spp.). Image courtesy of Peter Groenendijk.

Amazon tree rings reveal more intense drought and rainfall in the rainforest

Mongabay.com 21 Jul 2026
Climate refugees Rabeya Khatoon, right, and Moriom Bibi, who lost their homes to cyclone Aila, work at a brick field on the outskirts of Dhaka in the heat, 2009.

Extreme heat is eroding health, productivity and incomes of Dhaka’s informal workers

Md Jahidul Islam 21 Jul 2026

What living in one of the world’s hottest towns feels like

Associated Press 16 Jul 2026
A leafy sea dragon among seagrass in South Australia. Image by Jayne Jenkins / Ocean Image Bank

Australia’s seagrass meadows under pressure as climate change turns up the heat

Sean Mowbray 3 Jul 2026
Fire in a peat forest in Kalimantan. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

A possible strong El Niño fuels fears for fires across Indonesian tropical peatlands

Rendy Tisna 2 Jul 2026
A Florida panther.

Wildlife’s unpredictable movements make climate-change planning difficult

Gloria Dickie 1 Jul 2026

Trump admin persists in quixotic quest against wind power despite legal defeat

Bobby Bascomb 25 Jun 2026
Farmers of Bangladesh harvest ripe rice crop

Bangladesh’s lightning death toll persists as years of gov’t safeguards fail

Sadiqur Rahman 23 Jun 2026
Rain over the Amazon. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

South America’s farms depend, in part, on a healthy Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jun 2026

El Nino is here and scientists fear it’ll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires

Associated Press 11 Jun 2026

Sri Lanka’s recent drowning deaths linked to aftermath of extreme weather events

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 10 Jun 2026

Indonesia’s grassroots farmers face increased unpredictability, experts say

Naina Rao 10 Jun 2026
Giant soft coral in South Korea

‘Slumping’ afflicted soft corals around a South Korean island in 2024. Will it return this year?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Jun 2026
Harsh sun floods the homes of local families. Their belongings are either stored away or ruined by the storm. Family artifacts and heirlooms now litter living spaces as jagged wood hangs from rafters. Image by World Central Kitchen via Flickr (CC BY 4.0).

From the wreckage of Super Typhoon Sinlaku, Pacific Islanders slowly recover

Anita Hofschneider 3 Jun 2026

Intense heat during Mecca’s spring threatens millions of Hajj pilgrims

Naina Rao 1 Jun 2026

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