Leaders at COP30 Climate Summit in Belém Focus on the Rising Toll of Warming
“All we have to do is look outside,” one delegate said. “The sea rises, the coral dies.”
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The Guardian view on worsening extreme weather: the injustice of the climate crisis grows ever clearer | Editorial
The increasing ferocity and frequency of tropical storms imposes an unbearable burden on countries including Jamaica The geographically uneven risks from increasingly extreme and dangerous weather grow ever starker. As Jamaica and other Caribbean countries clear up after Hurricane Melissa,…
‘Giving up would be a betrayal’: Miliband says 1.5C target still alive before Cop30
Exclusive: Environment secretary says global tipping points are possible as he rejects far-right climate ‘defeatism’ Tackling the climate emergency is the key issue that could turn the tide against hard-right populists across the world, the UK’s energy secretary has said.…
N.C. Supreme Court Says State Regulators Erred on CAFO Permits
The ruling, a win for concentrated animal feeding operations, has raised concerns among environmentalists about groundwater and soil pollution from waste lagoons and spray systems that use manure as fertilizer. By Lisa Sorg The North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled…
Residents of Alaska’s storm-battered Native towns consider moving to higher ground
Damage from Typhoon Halong underscored the vulnerability of villages in western Alaska to climate crisis Darrel John watched the final evacuees depart his village on the western coast of Alaska in helicopters and small planes and walked home, avoiding the…
Toby Carvery owner urged to fund ‘life support’ for felled Enfield oak
Sprinklers could save 500-year-old tree that had branches cut off without authorisation in April, says expert The restaurant chain Toby Carvery is being urged to pay for life support for an ancient oak tree that its owner had chainsawed last…
After 6 years, trial in Indigenous forest guardian killing pushed to 2026
Six years after the killing of Indigenous forest guardian Paulo Paulino Guajajara and the attempted killing of fellow guardian Laércio Guajajara in the Brazilian Amazon, the trial of the two suspects charged in the crimes still will not take place…
Early-career journalists join the next wave of environmental reporting (commentary)
In this series, Our Letters to the Future, the sixth cohort of Mongabay’s Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellows share their views on environmental journalism, conservation and the future for their generation, amid multiple planetary crises. Each commentary is a…
Asian golden cat range expands, but declines continue amid rising threats
A single camera trap image of an Asian golden cat, photographed in Nepal’s Jajarkot district, has expanded this felid species’ range westward by nearly 400 kilometers (248 miles). Out of nearly 60,000 camera trap images snapped in 2024 in the…
Study finds deforestation fuels West Africa’s water crisis
A new study warns that deforestation across Ghana, Niger and Nigeria is intensifying West Africa’s water crisis, threatening the health and livelihoods of more than 122 million people. Drawing on 12 years of satellite data from 2013-2025, the joint report…