Environment

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Fossil fuel subsidies and high costs stall energy transition across rural Indonesia

DENPASAR, Indonesia — Renewable energy uptake has yet to gather momentum across Indonesia’s more than 84,000 villages, a new report concludes, as the government of the world’s fourth-largest country p...

Climate Realism (Heartland) 7/10 ?

Stop Protecting Insurance Profiteers, San Francisco Chronicle, Climate Change Is Not Responsible for California’s High Cost of Living

The San Francisco Chronicle claims that California is suffering from the impacts of climate change, and oil companies should “pick up the tab” instead of taxpayers because they are supposedly the caus...

NoTricksZone 6/10 ?

New Study: The Climate May Be 5 Times More Sensitive To Solar Forcing Than Commonly Assumed

The climate sensitivity to a doubling of CO2 with feedbacks may only be about 1°C, with humans contributing just 30% to the global warming since 1850. New research indicates the climate models that th...

Yale Environment 360 7/10 ?

As Oceans Warm, Great White Sharks Are Overheating

The evolutionary edge that fueled great white shark dominance for millions of years could soon become its greatest downfall.Read more on E360 →

Manhattan Contrarian 6/10 ?

Could There Be Any Idea More Ignorant Than Government-Run Grocery Stores?

* When I consider our new Mayor Mamdani and his legions of committed followers, the thought I can’t get away from is “How is it possible to be this ignorant?” * Right now here in New ...

Carbon Brief 7/10 ?

Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’

Renewable energy has overtaken coal to become the world’s largest source of electricity in 2025,...The postClean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’appeared first onCarb...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Push for solar park in Sri Lanka’s elephant terrain raises concern

HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka — As a new wave of large-scale solar energy projects take shape along the fringes of Sri Lanka’s Managed Elephant Range, or MER, in the southern district of Hambantota, activists...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Translucent microsnail discovered in Cambodia: Photo of the week

In 2024, scientists found a tiny new-to-science translucent microsnail in a cave of Banan Hill, a limestone hill that is part of the karst ecosystem of Battambang province in western Cambodia. The sna...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

How do you write the life of someone who avoided the spotlight? Miriam Horn on her biography of George Schaller

Some biographies are built around revelation. Others proceed by accumulation, assembling a life from fragments that resist easy interpretation. Miriam Horn’s Homesick for a World Unknown: The Life of ...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Five ‘lost’ bird species rediscovered in 2025

In 2025, birders and scientists found five “lost” bird species that had gone undocumented for a decade or more. As Mongabay’s Spoorthy Raman reports, these findings have helped reduce the total number...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Luis Yanza, campaigner who battled big oil in the Amazon rainforest

For much of the late 20th century, oil development in the Ecuadorian Amazon proceeded with little restraint. Wastewater and drilling residues were discharged into rivers or left in open pits. Forest w...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Climate displacement in Africa: Court opinion could define states’ obligations

The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights is expected to soon issue an advisory opinion on states’ obligations toward internally displaced persons affected by climate change. “Internally displace...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Goldman Prize winner Alannah Hurley fights Pebble Mine “from a place of love”

In the early 2000s, Alannah Acaq Hurley began working over her college summer breaks to spread awareness among rural communities in Southeast Alaska about a project called Pebble Mine: a pit 4 kilomet...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Bringing the world’s rewilders together: Interview with Alister Scott

Rewilding — the process of letting nature take over — is having its moment across the world at every scale. From an 18th-century abandoned farm in the French Alps, to a volcanic lake in Indonesia, to ...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

War, climate change, and AI on the agenda at this year’s U.N. Indigenous forum

This story is republished through the Indigenous News Alliance. Hundreds of delegates are arriving at the United Nations this week for the world’s largest gathering of Indigenous peoples. But they arr...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Chernobyl’s radioactive landscape is a testament to nature’s resilience and survival spirit

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — Wildlife is thriving again four decades after the nuclear disaster at Ukraine’s Chernobyl power plant in what became the exclusion zone created by the forced mass evacuations...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Nigerian bat specialist wins Goldman Prize for community conservation work

In the forested highlands of southern Nigeria’s Cross River state, plumes of smoke signal the annual fire season from January to April, when farmers routinely use fire to clear new land for planting c...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

To tackle trafficking in gibbons, experts probe what drives demand

“When we first got Joy, we thought he was a monkey,” says Esther. A hunter had come to her village in the Malaysian state of Sabah, on the island of Borneo, to sell wild meat. He showed Esther (not he...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Conservation collects more data than ever. What is it for?

Before launching a monitoring program, conservationists are often asked how data will be collected, which indicators will be used, and how results will be analyzed. Less often, they are asked a simple...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Brazil taps legal loophole to issue bids for Amazon ‘tipping point’ road

A strategic shift in law clears the way for a highway that scientists warn will push the Amazon to a tipping point.

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