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‘Unusual’ and weak La Niña confirmed, offers cooling respite after record El Niño

Shanna Hanbury 20 Jan 2025
Banner image of a common noctule courtesy of Kamran Safi/Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior.

Smart tags reveal migratory bats are storm-front surfers

Kristine Sabillo 15 Jan 2025
A firefighter in the Xingu Indigenous Territory.

World’s record heat is worsening air pollution and health in Global South

Simrin Sirur (with Orji Sunday and Karla Mendes) 13 Jan 2025

Climate change fueled record extreme weather events in 2024

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Jan 2025
Banner image of four storms over the Western Pacific Ocean in November 2024, by NASA Earth Observatory via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Philippines’ ‘extraordinary’ typhoon season was climate-fueled: Scientists

Kristine Sabillo 12 Dec 2024
Banner image of high river waters in Cardiff, Wales, by Sionk via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

India, U.K. deal with storms that are ‘symptom of our changing climate’

Kristine Sabillo 28 Nov 2024
Banner image of Super Typhoon Kong-Rey via PAGASA.

At least 146 dead in back-to-back tropical cyclones in Philippines

Kristine Sabillo 4 Nov 2024

At least 94 dead as worst storm in decades hits Spain’s Valencia region

Shanna Hanbury 30 Oct 2024
Banner image of tropical storm Trami via PAGASA.

Tropical cyclones pummel Philippines, India

Kristine Sabillo 25 Oct 2024

Heavy rains in Lake Chad Basin leave hundreds dead across countries

Shanna Hanbury 20 Sep 2024
A yellow oriental paper wasp (Polistes olivaceus)

Bats & bees help ni-Vanuatu predict storms — but will climate change interfere?

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 10 Sep 2024
Voters in West Bengal's Dinhata constituency, adjacent to Bangladesh, in 2016.

From polling stations to weather stations, the heat is on in India (commentary)

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 9 May 2024

Warming climate threatens to worsen air quality in already polluted Kathmandu

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Apr 2024

As fires ravaged Indonesia in 2023, some positive trends emerged, data show

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Apr 2024
Indigenous Tolupan people cultivating crops in Yoro, Honduras

Agroforestry project sows seeds of hope in drought-hit Honduras

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 Mar 2024

Brazilian youngsters discuss how they are tackling the climate emergency

Beatriz Jucá, Leandro Barbosa 15 Mar 2024
Wildfire on Kangaroo Island, Australia.

Studies still uncovering true extent of 2019-20 Australia wildfire catastrophe

Mongabay Haze Beat 11 Mar 2024
People during a severe heat wave that struck Brazil in late 2023.

Study on Brazilian heat wave deaths shows gender & racial disparities

Michael Esquer 6 Mar 2024
The effect is most dangerous in peatland areas like Riau province and southern Borneo, where out-of-control wildfires cause environmental destruction, excess deaths and economic losses in the billions of dollars.

Sumatra firefighters on alert as burning heralds start of Riau dry season

Suryadi 6 Mar 2024
A Bangladesh farm during a thunderstorm.

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

Abu Siddique 1 Mar 2024
Jasmine is commonly used to flavor tea and as an offering in devotional ceremonies.

Java’s crumbling coastline and rising tide swamp jasmine flower trade

Moh. Tamimi 24 Jan 2024
A woman stands next to a well with water that tastes salty due to seawater interference.

Salty wells and lost land: Climate and erosion take their toll in Sulawesi

Agus Mawan 21 Nov 2023
A trawler Naoned in the European part of North Atlantic Ocean.

Record North Atlantic heat sees phytoplankton decline, fish shift to Arctic

Juliette Portala 12 Oct 2023
A farmer holds green vegetables in his farm.

Salinity hinders Bangladesh agriculture; groups respond with seeds & information

Abu Siddique 28 Sep 2023
A chestnut-mandibled toucan in the rain.

Climate change detectable in daily rainfall patterns, deep-learning model finds

Abhishyant Kidangoor 27 Sep 2023

Beach heat: Study shows increasing temperature extremes on Brazil’s coast

Luís Patriani 17 Aug 2023
Tropical forest in the Amazon.

Drought cycles erode tropics’ ability to absorb CO₂, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Jul 2023
A firefighter puts out fires in a peatland in Indonesia.

With El Niño likely, Indonesia’s volunteer firefighters gear up — with new gear

Mongabay Haze Beat 4 Jul 2023
A silkworm farmer from Rajshahi, Bangladesh.

Extreme temperatures and erratic weather disrupt Bangladesh’s famous Rajshahi silk industry

Abu Siddique 26 Jun 2023
A farmer plants rice in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Deforestation linked to less rainfall, study shows; El Niño could make it worse

Jewel S. Cabrera 26 May 2023
A girl with avocados

In Indonesia, clouds form over East Java’s promising band of avocado growers

Asad Asnawi 16 May 2023

Australia bushfires may have caused global climate phenomenon La Niña: Study

Mongabay Haze Beat 11 May 2023

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