Climate, Energy & Conservation
A study of hundreds of armed conflicts around the world finds that severe drought raises the risk of violent clashes. The study is the latest addition to a growing body of evidence showing that climat...
The Guardian claims in “‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds” that New Orleans has effectively entered a “terminal condition” and must begin an org...
Forest authorities in central India have successfully helped establish a new breeding population of the vulnerable hard-ground swamp deer, an animal previously restricted to just one protected area, r...
https://energybadboys.substack.com/p/harvard-study-finds-wind-turbines By ENERGY BAD BOYS AND MITCH ROLLING Excerpt: A few weeks ago, we wrote about how Gallup polling found 66 percent of Americans th...
There was never any democratic mandate for any of this. At no stage were the public consulted, never mind given the opportunity to vote on renewable energy policy, Ed Miliband’s 2008 Climate Change Ac...
Herpetologists are calling for greater inclusion of amphibians in African conservation planning, in a recent letter published in the journal Science. Africa is home to roughly 1,170 known species of ...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/09/americas/hantavirus-cases-double-argentina-climate-change-latam-intl Buenos Aires, Argentina — Hantavirus cases in Argentina have almost doubled in the past year, with ...
For all the talk of finally relitigating the underlying climate science, the EPA's final rule does almost none of that. It does not argue that greenhouse gases fail to qualify as pollutants. It does n...
In recent years, spectacular seizures of illegally trafficked wildlife products, including consignments of ivory and pangolin scales weighing several tons, have provided plenty of evidence of Nigeria’...
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-climate-action-stalls-widespread-popular.html by Laurie Parsons, The Conversation Excerpt: Successive polls indicate overwhelming public support for resolving excessive c...
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Stop telling people to protect wildlife. Start paying them instead. ...
COLOMBO – As the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement, commonly known as the High Seas Treaty, officially came into force in January, shark scientists and conservationists who g...
Meat and dairy production are significant drivers of deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions. Many companies claim to be tackling this, but nearly all these claims, 98%, could be considered greenwa...
NAIROBI — Two 17-year-old students from Kiambu county in Kenya were declared winners of the Africa region Earth Prize on May 12, for a low-cost maize- and coconut-based vehicle exhaust filtration syst...
In 2024, the Amazon region felt the effects of one of the worst droughts in its recorded history — if not the worst. At the port of Manaus, the largest city along the course of the Amazon River, the w...
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-new-york-times-announces-end-climate-change-hoax By David Marcus Fox News For almost the entirety of the half century I have lived on Earth, I have had exp...
On April 13, 2026, TotalEnergies EP Congo announced it had discovered hydrocarbons on the Moho permit, offshore of the Republic of Congo. The company estimates the find could amount to nearly 100 mill...
A new land reform push in Bolivia meant to expand small farmers’ economic opportunities has sparked protests, with critics warning the law could put rural and Indigenous families at risk of eviction a...
The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia, was viewed by many as a historic achievement and a momentous step toward ending fossil fuel dependency. After mor...
ANURADHAPURA, Sri Lanka – Buddhist monks associated with the “Walk for Peace” initiative have carried a sapling of the sacred pipal or “bodhi” tree to the United States, more than 2000 years since the...