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A desperate seal escaped an orca pod by jumping onto a photographer's boat in Washington's Salish Sea, as European Union climate leadership erodes amid rising right-wing politics. Australia's climate scientist Tim Flannery warns against coalition compromises on environmental reform.
While ignorance of the law offers no legal defense, willful ignorance of environmental consequences has become a dangerous shield for those responsible for our planet’s future. This troubling dynamic is playing out most dramatically in Brazil’s approach to the Amazon…
Chile heads to the polls on November 16 in an election that could dramatically alter the country’s approach to critical environmental challenges. Voters will select a new president along with 23 Senate seats and all 155 seats in the Chamber…
Italy's proposed Messina Bridge could end centuries-old train ferry crossings between Sicily and mainland. Meanwhile, Vietnam's cave conservation efforts have transformed former hunters into wildlife protectors, helping species like slow lorises recover from near-extinction in ancient karst limestone regions.
Deep in the Brazilian Amazon, a devastating “silent war” is raging over land ownership—one that’s costing lives and accelerating the destruction of the world’s largest rainforest. In 2024, Mongabay investigative reporter Fernanda Wenzel ventured into Terra Nossa, one of the…
The European Union’s ambitious new Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) is set to reshape global commodity trading, requiring companies to prove their soy and other products don’t contribute to forest destruction. Under the law, any soy reaching EU markets must come from…
Protesters breach security at Brazil's crucial climate summit as world leaders gather. Meanwhile, Senegal experiments with intensive cattle grazing to combat drought, and Australia's Coalition faces internal warfare over abandoning its 2050 net zero emissions commitment.
Despite widespread public support for protecting the Amazon rainforest, political systems across the Pan-Amazon region consistently fail to deliver the environmental reforms needed to combat deforestation and promote sustainable development. A new analysis reveals that while politicians routinely voice support…
In a landmark environmental agreement, more than 220 communities in Sierra Leone have partnered with the Africa Conservation Initiative (ACI) to protect nearly 80,000 hectares of vital mangrove forests in the Sherbro River Estuary. This massive conservation area represents roughly…
Hundreds demand clean air in India's capital as pollution reaches dangerous levels, while Nigeria officially pardons executed environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight colleagues. Plus: Brazil's Lula targets climate misinformation at UN summit and Latin American communities resist water-hungry AI data centers.
