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A visual reconstruction of the February 19, 2023 incident in which a Hong Kong-flagged cargo vessel reportedly hit the Indian fishing boat, Ruby, 450 nautical miles away from Kanyakumari, the southernmost tip of India.

Warming seas push India’s fishers into distant, and more dangerous, waters

Imran Muzaffar and Aliya Bashir 23 Apr 2024

A multilayered lenticular cloud hovers near Mount Discovery, a volcano about 70 km (44 mi) southwest of McMurdo Station in Antarctica.

Polar warning: Warming temperatures mean more than melted ice

Elizabeth Devitt 27 May 2024

A lemur leaf frog in Costa Rica.

Are carbon credits another resource-for-cash grab? Interview with Alondra Cerdes Morales & Samuel Nguiffo

Latoya Abulu, Sonam Lama Hyolmo 22 May 2024

Catherine Toro

Tackling climate change in one of Colombia’s largest wetlands

César Giraldo 15 May 2024

A climate change protest in the U.S. in 2017.

Experts highlight importance of ‘prebunking’ to combat climate disinformation

Choki Wangmo 10 May 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

A visual reconstruction of the February 19, 2023 incident in which a Hong Kong-flagged cargo vessel reportedly hit the Indian fishing boat, Ruby, 450 nautical miles away from Kanyakumari, the southernmost tip of India.

Warming seas push India’s fishers into distant, and more dangerous, waters

Imran Muzaffar and Aliya Bashir 23 Apr 2024

A man from the Vedda community in Sri Lanka.

In largest ever study, Indigenous and local communities report the impacts of climate change

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 18 Apr 2024

Guna homes on the coastline of Gardi Sugdub Island.

Panama delays promised relocation of sinking island community

Aimee Gabay 17 Apr 2024

A jaguar

Are biodiversity credits just another business-as-usual finance scheme?

Shreya Dasgupta 19 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

Hippos in Queen Elizabeth National Park.

In climate-related flooding, a Ugandan river turns poisonous

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Mar 2024

Climate change, extreme weather & conflict exacerbate global food crisis

Abdulkareem Mojeed, Priscilla Misiekaba-Kia, Vitor Alexandre Araujo Prado dos Anjos 19 Feb 2024

Indigenous women of Guatemala’s Polochic Valley

Indigenous-led coalition calls for moratorium on terrestrial carbon trade

John Cannon 29 Dec 2023

Woodpecker Sitting in Tree in Forest

For forests, COP28 was better than expected, but worse than needed

Alec Luhn 28 Dec 2023

An excavator at a coal mine.

COP28 ‘breakthrough’ elevates litigation as vital route to climate action

Justin Catanoso 13 Dec 2023

Journalists and activists in May, 2017, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Fifth from left in the front is activist Hoang Thi Minh Hong.

NGOs at COP28 demand Vietnam free climate advocates before it gets energy funding

Alec Luhn 8 Dec 2023

A phytoplankton bloom in the Baltic Sea captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

Is ocean iron fertilization back from the dead as a CO₂ removal tool?

Jeremy Hance 14 Nov 2023

Woman carrying a solar pannel near Yangambi, DRC.

Can carbon markets solve Africa’s climate finance woes?

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Nov 2023

Pierre Friedlingstein is a member of the IPCC and a climate professor.

‘We don’t have much time’: Q&A with climate scientist Pierre Friedlingstein

Sarah Brown 13 Sep 2023

A coal mine in South Kalimantan, Indonesia.

U.N. ‘stocktake’ calls for fossil fuel phaseout to minimize temperature rise

John Cannon 12 Sep 2023

People walking through a forest.

Massive carbon offset deal with Dubai-based firm draws fire in Liberia

Ashoka Mukpo 4 Aug 2023

Tropical forest in the Amazon.

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Jul 2023

A penguin.

Antarctic warming alters atmosphere, ice shelves, ocean & animals

Juliette Portala 12 Jun 2023

UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell briefing the press on the opening day of the conference.

U.N. climate chief calls for end to fossil fuels as talks head to Dubai

John Cannon 8 Jun 2023

A view over Brazil’s Florestal Reserve Adolpho Ducke.

Protected areas store a year’s worth of CO₂ emissions, study reveals

Sean Mowbray 2 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 bowhead mother and calf in the Arctic Ocean.

Melting Arctic sea ice is changing bowhead whale migrations, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 May 2023

Clouds reflected in a lake in the Amazon Rainforest.

Newly published carbon market standards aim to increase integrity, confidence

John Cannon 30 Mar 2023

Burned peat forest in Borneo.

Deforestation drives fire risk in Borneo amid a warming climate, study finds

Spoorthy Raman 27 Mar 2023

A polar bear surveys its icy Arctic surroundings.

Southern atmospheric rivers drive irreversible melting of Arctic sea ice: Study

Alec Luhn 23 Mar 2023

Soraida Chindoy, 38, Indigenous leader from the Inga community of the Condagua reservation. She has been part of the movement to stop the mining project from the beginning. Image by Antonio Cascio for Mongabay.

Plan to mine ‘clean energy’ metals in Colombian Amazon splits communities

Natalia Torres Garzón 22 Mar 2023

Dutch windmills in Zaanse Schans, Zaanstad.

Sea level rise looms, even for the best-prepared country on Earth

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Mar 2023

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