Environment & Sustainability

Provisional Met Office figures show that it has been the warmest summer on record – meaning the UK’s five hottest summers have all occurred since 2000.

BENGKULU, Indonesia — Yesi held her daughter Helda tightly, but the little one still shivered for days in the tropical heat over Teluk Sepang, a bay on Sumatra’s west coast. “Her cough hasn’t stopped for 10 days now,” Yesi told…

Pedro Sánchez says country’s deadly August wildfires show society needs to mobilise and take immediate action Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has announced a 10-point plan to prepare the country for the climate emergency, warning that “if we don’t want…

Mean temperature over June, July and August was 16.1C as country endured four heatwaves The UK has seen its hottest summer on record, the Met Office has said, after the country sweltered under four heatwaves in a single season. The…

The oil giant accused the state’s attorney general and four nonprofit groups of defamation after they sued over recycling claims.

Conservationists hope that in 15 years species will no longer be at risk of extinction in Mexico – but challenges remain In 2010, Gerardo Ceballos and a group of other researchers set out to answer a burning question: how many…

Rainforests have long played a central role in Liberia. Home to hundreds of thousands of people, they’re a source of sustenance, a site for cultural practice and habitat for forest elephants, western chimpanzees, and pygmy hippos. Massive rubber plantations carved…

Researchers reviewing the diversity of bats in the Western Himalayas in India recently confirmed a new-to-science species from Uttarakhand state. Named the Himalayan long-tailed myotis (Myotis himalaicus) in a new study, the bat boasts a tail nearly as long as…

Around half of West Africa’s remaining rainforests are in the small coastal nation of Liberia. They’re home to species like western chimpanzees and pygmy hippos, valuable stands of hardwood — and hundreds of thousands of people. Despite years of logging…

How do scientists determine whether climate change is driving extreme weather events like the floods, heat waves and droughts that we’re experiencing today? To find out about the science of attribution, Mongabay’s Kristine Sabillo recently interviewed environmental statistician Clair Barnes…