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A firefighter in the Xingu Indigenous Territory.

World’s record heat is worsening air pollution and health in Global South

Simrin Sirur (with Orji Sunday and Karla Mendes) 13 Jan 2025
Mist rising from the Amazon rainforest at dawn. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Latin America in 2024: politics, turmoil and hope

Alexandra Popescu 3 Jan 2025

Southeast Asia in review: 2024

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 30 Dec 2024
Residents from Gwadar look on the sipping development at the coast.

Balochistan’s Gwadar city sits at the crossroads of climate and conflict

Waqas Alam Angaria 20 Dec 2024

Andes glacier melt threatens Amazon’s rivers & intensifies droughts

Amanda Magnani 11 Dec 2024
In a village near Kebribeyah district of Somali regional state, a young herder guides the cattle to the water source, keeping the age-old tradition alive. Image by Solomon Yimer.

As climate change upends Ethiopia’s pastoral wisdom, adaptations can help

Sonam Lama Hyolmo and Solomon Yimer 26 Nov 2024
Cityscape of Seattle, U.S., with trees in the foreground.

Cities are climate solution leaders: Interview with Vancouver’s Gregor Robertson

Justin Catanoso 22 Nov 2024
People walk in heavy rains in Dhaka.

Studies link stronger dengue outbreak in Bangladesh to climate change

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 22 Nov 2024

Six months after its worst floods, Rio Grande do Sul works to bounce back

Shi En Kim 28 Oct 2024

As 25 Earth vital signs worsen, scientists warn of ‘irreversible climate disaster’

Sean Mowbray 15 Oct 2024
Abdi Ahmed, in his late 60s, continues his pastoral life in Guyo Kebele, Somali Region, supporting his 19 children through a lifetime of nomadic herding.

Drought & climate change force Ethiopia pastoralists to go job hunting

Solomon Yimer 9 Oct 2024
River Bagmati flowing through a religious site.

Supreme Court decision on saving Kathmandu rivers stirs up heated reactions

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Sep 2024
Benjakitti Forest Park

Bangkok turns to urban forests to beat worsening floods

Claire Turrell 10 Sep 2024
A traditional Yaqui ceremonial hut in Vícam which is made from alamo

Lack of research as contaminated Yaqui River poses health risks

Aimee Gabay 10 Sep 2024
A yellow oriental paper wasp (Polistes olivaceus)

Bats & bees help ni-Vanuatu predict storms — but will climate change interfere?

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 10 Sep 2024
Boys swim in the Buriganga River near Dhaka during a heat wave in May 2024.

Conserving & restoring waterways can mitigate extreme urban heat in Bangladesh

Riley Comstock 20 Aug 2024
Seema Devi and other women from her village line up at the aquifer beneath the newly constructed field that doubles as a helipad.

Uttarakhand villagers thirst for water as tourism, temps & development rise

Swati Thapa 9 Aug 2024
Shelly Boyd, a Sinixt woman, co-leads the annual salmon ceremony at Kettle Falls and keeps tradition alive by singing songs that have been sung there for millennia.

A tribe once declared ‘extinct’ helps reintroduce salmon to the Columbia River

Anna Dulisse 30 Jul 2024
Young traditional dancers wearing ténabari around their ankles perform the danza del pascola y venado (the dance of the pascolas and the deer).

Loss of water means loss of culture for Mexico’s Indigenous Yaqui

Aimee Gabay 16 Jul 2024
Harvard researchers Evan Routhier and Faiz Haque during the sample collections at dawn in the Paraná do Jacaré, in the Negro River in mid-September 2023.

Study to benchmark water quality finds key Amazon tributary in good shape

Kevin Damasio 15 Jul 2024
Guasimas Bay has been contaminated by agrochemicals and waste that is released from shrimp farms not far from the coast.

As drought parches Mexico, a Yaqui water defender fights for a sacred river

Aimee Gabay 9 Jul 2024
Fire fighters cooling burnt peatlands.

Floods set to worsen on Sumatra peat as landscape gives way

Suryadi 30 May 2024

In Brazil’s Cerrado, aquifers are losing more water than they can replace

Kevin Damasio 24 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
Guna homes on the coastline of Gardi Sugdub Island.

Panama delays promised relocation of sinking island community

Aimee Gabay 17 Apr 2024

Faced with an extreme future, one Colombian island struggles to rebuild

Juan Pablo Pérez Burgos 15 Apr 2024
Muhammad Erlangga, a student, washes his clothes with rainwater.

Rainwater reserves a tenuous lifeline for Sumatran community amid punishing dry season

Suryadi 11 Apr 2024

As fires ravaged Indonesia in 2023, some positive trends emerged, data show

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Apr 2024
Drought in Bangladesh.

We need rapid response support for Indigenous peoples in the face of growing extreme weather events (commentary)

Joe Eisen 27 Mar 2024
Indigenous Tolupan people cultivating crops in Yoro, Honduras

Agroforestry project sows seeds of hope in drought-hit Honduras

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 Mar 2024
Relief effort during the Ene River floods, March 2024.

‘Another catastrophe’: Flooding destroys Indigenous agroforestry projects in Peru’s Amazon

Maxwell Radwin 26 Mar 2024

Brazilian youngsters discuss how they are tackling the climate emergency

Beatriz Jucá and Leandro Barbosa 15 Mar 2024

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