Climate, Energy & Conservation
Reality Roundtable #27 with Richard Schwartz & Steffi Bednarek
An ongoing drought in Europe has sapped French rivers. Officials say that 43 percent of small waterways in France have been partially or completely dried up.Read more on E360 →
It makes no sense for donor countries to run billions of dollars of their limited foreign aid money through the fraudulent and wasteful Green Climate Fund.The postThe UN Green Climate Fund is a wastef...
KATHMANDU — Delayed reporting, poor communication and weak biosecurity allowed bird flu to spread through Nepal’s Central Zoo in June and July killing or prompting the culling of at least 65 birds and...
The Reno Gazette Journal (RGJ) reports in “Climate models project Reno-Sparks could be a desert by late century,” that climate change is poised to dramatically reshape the world’s ecosystems, with for...
Hottest month ever? That claim is misleading for two reasons: 1️⃣ This is due to minimum temperatures only, which skew the “average.” 2️⃣ The real, measured thermometer data (area-weighted) don’t supp...
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring three areas in the Atlantic for potential tropical development in what has been a quiet start to the 2026 hurricane season, particularly across the Atlantic...
Cloud cover changes are a “top-down dynamical driver” of Earth’s climate. A July 2026 Environmental Research Letters paper authored by Bellocchi et al. attributes ~80% of the rise in Earth’s absorbed ...
From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness Meanwhile, let’s all switch on our washing machines tomorrow night! Britain’s biggest energy supplier is urging…The postOctopus Ener...
SUNGAI APIT, Indonesia — Harisyah was still knee-deep in peat as the light faded over the mouth of Indonesia’s Siak River. The 53-year-old palm oil and pineapple grower had been cutting back weeds sin...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck off the coast of Hawaii's Big Island Monday evening beneath an undersea volcano, part of unrest that began this past Sunday, according to the USGS.
Needless to say, the Met Office owes the paying public an explanation for its extraordinary behaviour in failing to update such important climate data.The postCherry-Picking Met Office Drops Declining...
This solar-powered barge collects plastic from Bangkok’s canals before it can wash into the ocean. It’s an innovative solution to a growing problem, but cleaning up plastic is only part of the answer....
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) recorded more than 4,300 Ebola cases with more than 2,000 deaths as of Aug. 9, making this the country’s largest outbreak, to date. In the last major Ebola outbr...
Brazil’s gun boom reached the forest, where native wildlife became targets too.
Ghana’s land ministry is failing to act against illegal gold mining in the Greater Cape Three Points Forest Reserve, say conservationists. Their call comes as pollution threatens vulnerable and endang...
JAKARTA — Indonesia’s nickel boom is colliding with its efforts to protect biodiversity and reduce emissions from forests and other land uses. A new study warns that meeting growing global nickel dema...
A cocoa boom in southeast Liberia is wiping out native forests and encroaching into a proposed national park. The would-be Kwa National Park, a dense tropical rainforest, is home to chimpanzees, fores...
August 12 is World Elephant Day. To celebrate, Mongabay looks back at recent stories about how the future success of these mammals depends on healthy, connected habitats. Asian elephants adjust what t...
In India’s Western Ghats, sacred groves – small, community-protected forest patches dedicated to local deities – are far more effective at regenerating native tree species than surrounding village lan...