Wildfires displace thousands and ravage greater Los Angeles
Extremely dry conditions coupled with high winds have led to an explosive wildfire situation in southern California. Multiple fires have erupted across the Los Angeles area since Tuesday. Tens of...
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Why Los Angeles is burning in January
Harel Dor and Finn O’Brien were just finishing up dinner at a restaurant in Pasadena, California on Tuesday evening, when a friend texted them about an evacuation warning. A severe windstorm had spread...
View ArticleDeadly wildfires force thousands to evacuate homes in Los Angeles
Wildfires in Southern California, U.S., have killed at least five people, forced some 130,000 to evacuate, and damaged or destroyed more than 2,000 buildings. Numerous fires are raging around Los...
View ArticleNew images of Mercury captured by UK spacecraft
European Space Agency A spacecraft built in the UK has captured new images of Mercury as it made its sixth and final flyby ahead of entering the planet’s orbit in 2026. BepiColombo was built by the...
View ArticleWhat are biodiversity credits — and could have a meaningful impact?
Planet Money buys a “biodiversity credit” and travels to the Andean cloud forest in Colombia — to see how these credits work, and if they can really help save threatened species. The post What are...
View ArticleA Wisconsin-based surfer’s quest to create a more eco-friendly board
The Great Lakes don’t readily evoke images of surfing and surfboard-making, but a surfer in Wisconsin is on an eco-friendly mission to change that. The post A Wisconsin-based surfer’s quest to create a...
View ArticleIt’s time for a U.N. ‘universal declaration on nature’ (commentary)
Attending the UN climate (COP28) and biodiversity (COP16) conferences during the past two years, it strikes this observer that the UN specialist environmental agreements on climate, biodiversity,...
View Article2024 first year to pass 1.5C global warming limit
BBC The planet has moved a major step closer to warming more than 1.5C, new data shows, despite world leaders vowing a decade ago they would try to avoid this. The European Copernicus climate service,...
View ArticleNGOs raise concerns over Borneo pilot of ‘jurisdictional’ certification for...
BANJARMASIN, Indonesia — In October 2023 in the Indigenous Dayak village of Bangkal, Indonesian police fired on farmers demonstrating against PT Hamparan Masawit Bangun Persada (HMBP), a palm oil...
View ArticleBonobo numbers in DRC park stable, but signs of decline appear
Bonobo populations in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Salonga National Park remained steady between 2002 and 2018, but there are worrying signals of decline, a recent study has found. For decades,...
View Article‘Nightmare’ fire threatens iconic Madagascar national park
A mighty blaze in Madagascar’s Ranomafana National Park is menacing the home of the world’s rarest lemur species. Disastrous dry conditions have turned the biodiversity haven into a tinderbox. The...
View Article‘You have to be passionate’: Interview with Turtle Survival Alliance’s Hery...
Madagascar is home to weird and wonderful creatures that occur nowhere else on the planet. In many parts of the island, this biodiversity is under pressure due to wildlife trafficking,...
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The general public’s views on climate change in Sweden aren’t that different from those in the U.S. So why are Sweden’s climate policies so much more advanced? It’s the 50th anniversary of the Safe...
View ArticleNorway on track to be first to go all-electric
BBC Norway is the world leader when it comes to the take up of electric cars, which last year accounted for nine out of 10 new vehicles sold in the country. Can other nations learn from it? For more...
View ArticleNew alert system can track changes in grasslands, farms, temperate forests
A new global data set makes it possible to track near-real-time changes in several types of vegetation across different ecosystems, including grasslands, savannas, shrublands, croplands, temperate...
View ArticleBy razing trees for flood defenses, a Philippine city may have raised its risk
Flood-mitigation infrastructure built in the southern Philippines for more than $100 million by clearing native vegetation could exacerbate flood risk in the future, reports Mongabay’s Keith Anthony...
View ArticleWeird weather isn’t always because of climate change — but sometimes it is
Sometimes, weather is just weather. And other times human-caused climate change had an obvious impact. (Image credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)The post Weird weather isn’t always because of...
View ArticleFor Ugandan farmers, good fences make good neighbors — of elephants
This is the third story in the Mongabay Series – Protected Areas in East Africa. Read Part One and Two. KIKORONGO, Uganda — What do you do if you’re neighbors with an elephant? In western Uganda, the...
View ArticleWorld’s record heat is worsening air pollution and health in Global South
Humanity achieved a fateful milestone last year. The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service has officially declared 2024 the hottest year on record, and the first year in history with an...
View ArticleNew study reveals why some birds are all about that bass
Birds produce an impressive variety of songs and calls, but the biological and ecological factors that influence the pitch, or frequencies, that birds create hasn’t been well understood — until now....
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