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Climate change agricultural impacts to heighten inequality: Study

Claire Asher 13 Dec 2021
Bolivia

With La Niña conditions back, is it good news for tropical forests?

Carolyn Cowan 22 Nov 2021

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

New study says changes in clouds will add to global warming, not curb it

Conrad Fox 5 Aug 2021
Prolonged dry conditions have caused the worst drought in central and southern Brazil in almost a century. The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on NASA's Landsat 8 captured an image of Lago das Brisas on the Paranaíba River on June 17, 2021.

Lessons from Brazil’s São Paulo droughts (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 30 Jul 2021

Cerrado desertification: Savanna could collapse within 30 years, says study

Fernanda Wenzel 28 Jul 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
A modern sailing vessel passes a fossil-fueled container ship. Image via Visualhunt.

New age of sail looks to slash massive maritime carbon emissions

Andrew Willner 15 Mar 2021

Dusty winds exacerbate looming famine in Madagascar’s deep south

Rivonala Razafison 29 Jan 2021
Rainforest tree with magenta flowers

Critical temperature threshold spells shorter lives for tropical trees

Liz Kimbrough 22 Dec 2020
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

Climate change could put tropical plant germination at risk: Study

Claire Asher 12 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

Siberian heat drives Arctic ice extent to record low for early July

Gloria Dickie 10 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
The Javari river forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Investing in Amazon Rainforest Conservation: A Foreigner’s Perspective (commentary)

Jonah Wittkamper 21 Apr 2020

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