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Global Energy Outlook sees promise in Africa’s power transition — funds permitting

David Akana 13 Nov 2025
Technicians in Zimbabwe inspect solar panels. Image © UNDP Zimbabwe.

What does the just energy transition mean for Africa?

John Cannon 10 Nov 2025
Wind turbines installed off the coast of Rhode Island, U.S.

Potential wind slowdown threatens renewable energy and fuels heat domes

Mongabay.com 29 Oct 2025
Birds flock in the foreground against wind turbines at the Spearville Wind Farm Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, in Spearville, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Radar study shows when offshore turbines pose greatest risks to migrating birds

Edward Carver 21 Oct 2025
A wind farm in Altamont, California. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Big Oil isn’t part of the clean energy push, despite its claims, study shows

Malavika Vyawahare 10 Oct 2025

Respite, for now, for bird migration hotspot at heart of Sri Lanka’s wind power dispute

Malaka Rodrigo 20 Aug 2025

UN says booming solar, wind and other green energy hits global tipping point for even lower costs

Associated Press 22 Jul 2025
Longyangxia Dam Solar Park in China. Photo courtesy of NASA.

Nearly three-quarters of solar and wind projects are being built in China

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Jul 2025

Brazil’s offshore wind farms could sacrifice small-scale fishing in Ceará

Lobato Felizola 15 May 2025
Sheep near Nieuwoudtville, South Africa. Image by Leonie Joubert for Mongabay.

PHOTO ESSAY Wind-blown sand scouring life off a Southern African landscape

Leonie Joubert 30 Apr 2025
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Brazil communities accuse companies of ‘green grabbing’ for wind energy

Jonathan Moens, Thomas Bauer 7 Mar 2025

India’s Adani withdraws from controversial Sri Lanka wind power project

Malaka Rodrigo 21 Feb 2025
Wind farm. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Beyond COP, former UN climate chief talks nuance, optimism on Mongabay podcast

Mongabay.com 19 Feb 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
Installation of solar panels.

Renewables won’t save us from climate catastrophe, experts warn; what will?

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 17 Dec 2024
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SE Asia renewables firms fall short on policies to protect environmental defenders

Carolyn Cowan 25 Sep 2024

French court greenlights lawsuit against EDF over wind farm in Mexico

Chris Arsenault, Philippe Le Billon 26 Jun 2024

As wind, solar farms expand in Brazil, space for traditional communities shrinks

Fernanda Wenzel 25 Jun 2024
A sign marks a boundary of the Tohono O'odham Reservation.

Tribes turn to the U.N. as major wind project plans to cut through their lands in the U.S.

Taylar Dawn Stagner 24 Apr 2024

How a wind farm on Brazil’s coast erased a fishing village from the map

Lobato Felizola 14 Mar 2024
A bridge in Masungi Georeserve.

Surprise discovery of wind farm project in Philippine reserve prompts alarm

Keith Anthony Fabro 5 Mar 2024
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Colombian wind farm end-of-life raises circularity and Indigenous questions

Natalia Torres Garzón 9 Nov 2023
Smoke from a factory chimney.

How nonprofit journalism revealed many problems with the UN’s climate neutrality claims

Mike DiGirolamo 10 Oct 2023
José Martins and another fisher.

In Brazil, rural communities are caught in the eye of the wind farm storm

Giovanna Carneiro | Arnaldo Sete | Marco Zero 4 Sep 2023

For Caatinga’s last jaguars and pumas, wind farms are the newest threat

Suzana Camargo 22 Aug 2023

Fair winds or fowl: Clean energy clashes with conservation in Brazil’s Caatinga

Suzana Camargo 14 Aug 2023
Birds flying through wind turbines.

What’s black and white and spins? Wind turbines that don’t kill birds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 31 Mar 2023
A caracal in Africa.

Mongabay’s What-To-Watch list for May 2022

Mongabay.com 3 May 2022
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

Analysis: Vietnam’s leadership flex shows how to drive electricity reform

David Brown 6 Aug 2020

In the Philippines’ Boracay, flying foxes are going, going, gone

Jun N. Aguirre 27 Apr 2020

New UN report takes stock of renewable energy’s decade-long growth spurt

Mongabay.com 9 Sep 2019

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