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Researchers express alarm as Arctic multiyear sea ice hits record low

Gloria Dickie 17 Sep 2021
The Rietholzbach catchment is a hilly pre-alpine basin in north eastern Switzerland

Reforestation holds promise for Europe’s increasingly drier summers

Jim Tan 10 Aug 2021
Glacier in Antarctica. Photo credit: N. Butler

Humans’ role in climate warming ‘unequivocal,’ IPCC report shows

John Cannon 9 Aug 2021

Record heat waves are a taste of what’s to come under a changing climate

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 26 Jul 2021

Lessons from the 2021 Amazon flood (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 23 Jul 2021

Indonesia eyes less severe fire season, but COVID-19 could turn it deadly

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Jul 2021

As Arctic warms, scientists wrestle with its climate ‘tipping point’

Conrad Fox 15 Jul 2021

As Arctic melt sets early July record, hard times lie ahead for ice: Studies

Gloria Dickie 8 Jul 2021

Arctic biodiversity at risk as world overshoots climate planetary boundary

Gloria Dickie 29 Apr 2021

As Arctic sea ice hits annual maximum, concern grows over polar ice loss: Studies

Gloria Dickie 16 Mar 2021

Dusty winds exacerbate looming famine in Madagascar’s deep south

Rivonala Razafison 29 Jan 2021
A world turned weird. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Top 10 environmental news stories of 2020

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Dec 2020

One year on: Insects still in peril as world struggles with global pandemic

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2020

Brave New Arctic: Sea ice has yet to form off of Siberia, worrying scientists

Sharon Guynup 26 Oct 2020

Arctic Sea ice melts to second-place finish at annual minimum

Gloria Dickie 21 Sep 2020
Planet image of Altamira (-5.79, -53.69) in the State of Pará, Brazil taken on August 8, 2020. Courtesy of Planet.

Can we predict where Amazon fires will occur? And to what end?

Liz Kimbrough 21 Aug 2020

Traversing Russia’s remote taiga in pursuit of the Blakiston’s fish owl

Gloria Dickie 6 Aug 2020
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burning throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

Photos show scale of massive fires tearing through Siberian forests

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Jul 2020

COVID-19 may worsen burning and haze as Indonesia enters dry season

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jul 2020

Crediting the lockdown for Sri Lanka’s cleaner air masks the real problem (Commentary)

Lareef Zubair 10 Jun 2020

Aided by weather, Sri Lanka’s lockdown leads to decline in air, sea pollution

Dennis Mombauer 21 May 2020

Philippines bids farewell to satellite that launched enviro policy into the space age

Rosy Mina 12 May 2020

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

Gloria Dickie 4 Dec 2019

Typhoon-prone Philippines gets climate funding for early warning system

Mongabay.com 2 Dec 2019

The climate crisis and the pain of losing what we love (commentary)

Glenn Scherer 30 Sep 2019

Mongabay investigative series helps confirm global insect decline

Jeremy Hance 24 Jun 2019
Mekong River landscape. Image by WWF-Cambodia.

As Cambodia swelters, climate-change suspicion falls on deforestation

Michael Tatarski 17 Jun 2019

How to save insects and ourselves

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 2019

The tropics in trouble and some hope

Jeremy Hance 10 Jun 2019

Vanishing act in Europe and North America

Jeremy Hance 6 Jun 2019

A global look at a deepening crisis

Jeremy Hance 3 Jun 2019

Study finds people apt to shrug off extreme weather as normal

Mongabay.com 28 Feb 2019

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