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In the Amazon, political systems fail to prioritize the environment

Timothy J. Killeen 12 Nov 2025

Coal-dependent South Africa struggles to make just energy transition real

Anna Weekes 11 Nov 2025
Morocco’s Noor-Ouarzazate Solar power complex. Image by Michael Taylor/IRENA via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

African summit seeks clean energy future to combat climate change impacts

Christophe Assogba, Modeste Dossou 10 Nov 2025
Rainforest, reef, and ocean on Maratua Island, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Three tracks to rescue 1.5°C: fossil exit, forest protection, and nature’s carbon (commentary)

Ilona Szabó de Carvalho 8 Nov 2025
TFFF roundtable in Belém, Brazil on Nov. 6. Image courtesy of Fernando Donasci/MMA.

COP30 tropical forest fund may drive debt and deforestation, groups warn

Shanna Hanbury 7 Nov 2025

Suriname’s plan to capitalize on carbon: Q&A with President Jennifer Geerlings-Simons

Maxwell Radwin 4 Nov 2025

Amid systemic corruption, Amazon countries struggle to fight environmental crime

Timothy J. Killeen 31 Oct 2025
Washed-up North Sea cod in Haroldswick, Scotland. Image courtesy of Mike Pennington (CC BY-SA 2.0).

UK fish stocks in trouble as catch limits exceed scientific advice: Report

Shanna Hanbury 29 Oct 2025
Sixty-seven Filipinos are suing Shell for damages suffered during Typhoon Rai in 2021. Image ©Miguel de Guzman/Greenpeace.

Filipino survivors of deadly 2021 typhoon planning to sue Shell for damages

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Oct 2025
Annapurna mountains.

Ousted Nepal gov’t cleared easier path for controversial cable cars, documents show

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 29 Oct 2025

Drax pellet mill wins appeal to raise pollution limits in small Mississippi town

Justin Catanoso 28 Oct 2025
Logging in western Cambodia. Image anonymously provided to Mongabay.

Most Cambodia & Laos tree cover loss in 2024 happened inside protected areas

Mongabay.com 27 Oct 2025
A TotalEnergies petrol station in Handeni Tanga, Tanzania. Image by Praygod mwanga via Wikimedia Commons (CCBY4.0).

Oil and gas giant TotalEnergies found guilty of greenwashing

Victoria Schneider 27 Oct 2025

FSC to vote on new traceability rules amid fraud allegations

Philip Jacobson 26 Oct 2025
Mfolozi Community Environmental Justice Organisation leader Fikile Ntshangase was killed in 2020. Image courtesy of Lunga Bhengu/groundWork.

‘We are just waiting to die’: Mining activists targeted as South Africa delays energy transition

Anna Weekes 23 Oct 2025
EU Environment Commissioner Jessika Roswall. Image courtesy of the European Union.

EU proposes soft delay of anti-deforestation law & more exemptions for rich nations

Shanna Hanbury 22 Oct 2025

Deforestation and disease spread as Nicaragua ignores illegal cattle ranching

Maxwell Radwin 20 Oct 2025

Nations delay vote on shipping decarbonization rules after fierce US resistance

Edward Carver 17 Oct 2025
Illustration by Sara Arredondo – Baudó Agencia Pública.

Indigenous monitoring project helps protect isolated peoples in Colombia’s Amazon

Pilar Puentes 16 Oct 2025
Forest recovery in the Brazilian Amazon. Image courtesy of Celso Silva Junior.

Report finds increased tropical forest regrowth over the last decade

Shanna Hanbury 14 Oct 2025
Recent fires in the Amazon Rainforest degraded a large portion of the world’s primary forests. Image © Marizilda Cruppe/Greenpeace.

Global goal of zero deforestation by 2030 is severely off track

Shanna Hanbury 14 Oct 2025

Peru considers stripping protections for Indigenous people and their territories

Maxwell Radwin 13 Oct 2025
A family crosses the flooded streets of Pakistan.

One after another, Pakistan endures successive climate disasters

Waqas Alam Angaria 10 Oct 2025

Cameroon inaugurates controversial dam despite local dissent

Yannick Kenné 10 Oct 2025
Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

MPs across Latin America unite to stop fossil fuels in the Amazon

Mie Hoejris Dahl 9 Oct 2025
The Laura Mærsk arrives at port in Copenhagen in September 2023 for a name-giving ceremony.

What fuel will ships burn as they move toward net zero?

Edward Carver 8 Oct 2025
Fishers with a net at Lake Victoria in Kenya.

Africa’s largest freshwater lake could be site of Kenya’s nuclear power plant

Elodie Toto 8 Oct 2025
American Avocet. Image by Michael Barry via Pixabay (Pixabay Content License).

Bird-watching for nature connection & social justice

Mike DiGirolamo 7 Oct 2025
Solar panels installed in a forested area in Gabon. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

EU to invest $636m in African power projects, including clean energy

Malavika Vyawahare 7 Oct 2025
A harvester harvesting soy in Brazil.

Brazil soy deal that curbs Amazon deforestation to be suspended in 2026

Shanna Hanbury 6 Oct 2025
A worker of a sustainable solutions company performs maintenance work on a solar panel on a roof on the island of Sumba in Indonesia.

With red tape, canceled rebates, Indonesia risks missing Chinese renewables investment

Jeff Hutton 6 Oct 2025
Datu Cornelio Melayao points to a patch of greenery tribal members reforested decades ago.

Philippine tribes revive reforestation to defy coal mining expansion

Bong S. Sarmiento 30 Sep 2025

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