Climate, Energy & Conservation
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...
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 ...
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...
The annoying spotted lanternflies are back — and this time, there aren’t just hundreds of them — there are thousands. The insects have been reported in more than 19 states
MASSIVE VICTORY AGAINST THE CLIMATE CULT! Fifth Circuit SHUTS DOWN Illegal Biden-Era Energy Efficiency Standards for Stoves and Cooktops – Slams DOE for Trying to Bypass the Law! By Jim Hᴏft Excerpt: ...
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...
“Buyer beware. The smartest guys in the room, the expert planners, the government-enabled Lords of the (political) marketplace, want to demote you.”The postClimate Blame Game: Global Central Planning ...
More than a dozen people were hospitalized, including one who was airlifted, after a lightning strike at an Ohio correctional facility Tuesday evening.
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...
"... you could multiply the vote of under-30s by 1.3 ... [because] younger voters will disproportionately bear the costs of climate change ..."The postClaim: Young People’s Electoral Vote Should Count...
A high school football player in Arkansas was met with a dangerous surprise before practice when he found a venomous snake inside his helmet.
In early March 2026, acting on intelligence shared by my organization, the Environmental Investigation Agency UK, Zambian authorities seized a consignment of more than 500 kg (over 1,100 pounds) of iv...
Authorities in Cambodia’s Koh Kong province say they’ve approved a sand mining operation exporting to Singapore, despite an export ban imposed by national authorities a decade ago after large-scale dr...
Elizabeth Goldman is a co-director of Global Nature Watch, previously known as Global Forest Watch, a database measuring forest loss that’s frequently cited in Mongabay reporting. She joins this week’...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Supreme Court is set to decide cases that could reshape protections for the Amazon rainforest and Indigenous communities. These cases involve Indigenous land rights, environm...
The Old Farmer’s Almanac has released its Fall 2026 forecast, predicting a warmer U.S. interior, cooler conditions along parts of the coasts and a mix of wet and dry weather across the country.
HAWAII – Severe weather conditions continue to brew in the Pacific Ocean as forecasters predict Invest 93L could become a tropical depression by Wednesday.
Authorities ordered mandatory evacuations in Monterey County, California, on Tuesday as a large, fast-moving wildfire continues to spread across the region.
This summer has been full of ancient discoveries from the historic era of the Roman Empire, as Italian deep-sea divers discover a shipwreck with artifacts in remarkable condition.
Breton, a 1,400-pound great white shark, is catching attention as he makes big moves heading north in the Atlantic, trailing behind other white sharks of the season.