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A firefighter puts out fires in a peatland in Indonesia.

Thousands of peat fires flare across Indonesia despite rainy season

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Feb 2026

Argentina fires ravage pristine Patagonia forests, fueling criticism of Milei’s austerity

Associated Press 2 Feb 2026
As COP30 unfolded in Belém this past November, civil defense coordinator Edson Abreu dos Santos decided to revisit the areas that had burned in Acará.

Seminarian-turned-fire-agent preaches new tactics to fight Amazon’s burn crisis

Carla Ruas 28 Jan 2026

Indigenous women lead a firefighting brigade in Brazil’s Cerrado

Mongabay.com 7 Jan 2026
A barn owl hunting for fleeing prey along a fire’s periphery.

How are California’s birds faring amid ever more frequent wildfires?

Gloria Dickie 31 Dec 2025
A fungi in the family Hygrophoraceae. This fungi, which may represent a new genus, is rare and restricted to California’s coastal regions, says Singer.

Statewide survey aims to put California’s fungi on the conservation map

Sean Mowbray 20 Dec 2025
Bambang Hero Saharjo and Basuki Wasis, two environmental experts from IPB University, after the first hearing of their lawsuit against their testimony at the Cibinong District Court,

Indonesia court clears wildfire scientists in case brought by palm oil company

Rendy Tisna 17 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
A forest fire in August 2025 in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. Image © Marizilda Cruppe/Greenpeace.

Amazon Rainforest hits record carbon emissions from 2024 forest fires

Shanna Hanbury 8 Oct 2025

In Guatemala, young Kaqchikel Maya protect their sacred forest with open mapping

Monica Pelliccia 18 Sep 2025
An Indigenous Tikuna man in the Amazon Rainforest in Colombia. Some researchers oppose the idea that human cultures would have been limited and determined by the environment, and that supports the notion that human cultures have modified the environment as desired. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Forests on Indigenous lands help protect health in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Sep 2025
Przewalski's horse at Rewilding Spain Project

Why are wild horses returning to Spain?

Juan Maza 3 Sep 2025
A brilliant blue male Francis’s gorgeous sapphire, euthanized after being reared in captivity. Image courtesy of Jonathan Francis.

Discovery of dazzling blue butterfly underscores peril facing Angola’s forests 

Ryan Truscott 3 Sep 2025

Rewilding project aims to restore resilience to fire-prone Spain via wildlife

Jeremy Hance 28 Aug 2025
Banner image of a firefighter trying to extinguish a wildfire as a helicopter flies over Athens on July 26, 2025, by AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis.

Climate change intensified wildfire weather in Greece, Türkiye and Cyprus: Study

Kristine Sabillo 28 Aug 2025
The jaguar nicknamed Gaia, who died when her Pantanal habitat burned. Image courtesy of Ricardo Martins / Caiman Ecological Refuge.

Climate negotiations must begin to prioritize conservation of wetlands like Brazil’s Pantanal (commentary)

Mario Haberfeld, Steve Trent 27 Aug 2025
Banner image of a reindeer calf in 2009 at a Gabna Sámi village in Sweden, by Silje Bergum Kinsten/norden.org via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.5 DK).

Deadly Nordic heat wave made 10 times worse by climate change: Study

Kristine Sabillo 19 Aug 2025

Spain deploys 500 more troops to battle wildfires during extended heat wave

Associated Press 18 Aug 2025
2017's Jones Fire in Oregon, U.S.

Old forests, new fires, and a scientific standoff over active management

John Cannon 18 Aug 2025
A helicopter drops water on a wildfire in Larouco, northwestern Spain, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Lalo R. Villar)

Greece, Spain and Portugal race to contain wildfires as EU steps up cross-border help

Associated Press 15 Aug 2025
A crew of firefighters fights the Vees Fire near Ten Sleep, Wyoming, in July 2025.

Fixing forests or fueling fires? Scientists split over active management

John Cannon 13 Aug 2025

NASA satellites show surge in Indonesia hotspots as 2025 fires send smoke to Malaysia

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Aug 2025
Jaguars still roam the Chaco, but they require large tracts of contiguous forest to survive and reproduce. As forest is destroyed, fewer of these intact landscapes exist. Photo by Eduardo Merille via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Fences, tech and trust help save jaguars in Panama’s Darién

Marlowe Starling 12 Aug 2025
This photo provided by the Securite Civile on Friday, Aug.8, 2025 shows firefighters next to a wildfire Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025 near Jonquieres, southern France. (Securite Civile via AP)

High temperatures threaten to reignite blaze after France’s largest wildfire in decades

Associated Press 8 Aug 2025
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

Drone swarms and AI take aim at stopping wildfires in 10 minutes

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2025
Hamid Moradi. Photo courtesy of the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights.

Hamid Moradi, died on July 25th after battling a forest fire in Iranian Kurdistan, aged 36

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Jul 2025

A look at megafires as an Oregon wildfire approaches the 100,000-acre mark

Associated Press 23 Jul 2025
Sunset at Joshua Tree National Park

In a warming world, can California save its Joshua trees?

Maya L. Kapoor 17 Jul 2025
Area of burned forest in ​​the city of Apuí, Amazonas state. Image by Bruno Kelly/Amazônia Real via Wikimedia Commons. (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Amazon deforestation spikes as Brazil blames criminal fires

Lucas Berti 16 Jul 2025

The world’s children suffer brunt of wildfire smoke health impacts

Anna Dulisse 14 Jul 2025
In this photo released by Agents Rurals de Catalunya, uncontrolled fire rages across the grasslands in the Segarra region, in the rural province of Lleida, Spain, Tuesday, July 1, 2025. (AP Photo/ Agents Rurals de Catalunya, HO)

Wildfire kills 2 people in Spain as parts of Europe bake in heat wave

Associated Press 2 Jul 2025
For the Maya people, fire has always been a sacred element, central in ancestral Mother Earth celebration ceremonies.

Fire is both destruction and rebirth for Maya communities of Belize

Monica Pelliccia 27 Jun 2025

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