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After decades of losses, mangrove trees are gaining ground on coastlines around the world, often in places they have never grown before.

Current climate policies put the world on a course for 2.8 degrees C of warming this century, a gross breach of international climate targets, according to a new U.N. report.

Sixteen years after an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig unleashed more than 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, life in the deep sea has yet to recover.

A powerful El Niño is delivering unusually warm waters to the California coast, and with them, an array of tropical sea creatures rarely seen there.

As national security and the hunt for rare minerals come to dominate Arctic agendas, governments are slashing support for wildlife research.

When bird populations decline, fledglings may struggle to learn the songs they need to attract mates.

Indonesia appears to be reversing course on a plan to turn vast swaths of tropical rainforest into rice and sugarcane plantations.

The Congo Basin is one of the few places on Earth where the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has failed to track the long-term shift in extreme heat and rainfall.

Researchers have recorded a new species of giant waterlily after first spotting the plant in an Instagram photo.

Federal agencies have long been required to seek public comment when writing new regulations or approving large projects, from highways to data centers.

At 192 years old, Jonathan the giant tortoise is the oldest known living land animal.

Indonesia is obstructing access to government data on the state of its forests.

Across the Caribbean, people have installed roughly twice as many solar panels as official statistics would suggest.

A legacy of deforestation has left Ethiopia struggling with more intense flooding and drought.

August and September passed without a single Atlantic hurricane, thanks in part to a powerful El Niño.

As president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro not only weakened regulations and gutted agencies charged with protecting the Amazon, he also encouraged the clearing of forest.

Mountainous, densely populated Japan has little land available for large solar farms, so developers are erecting arrays on many of the now disused golf courses that proliferated during the country's 1980s economic boom.

As the Arctic warms and tundra thaws, minerals long trapped in frozen soil are leaching into rivers, turning them orange and acidic.

Some parts of the globe are not just heating up, but heating up faster than they were just a few decades ago.

Soaring energy costs are driving a solar rush in developing countries, but as households unplug from the grid, those who remain face higher electricity bills.

In the first half of this year, salmon farmers on the Australian island of Tasmania detonated nearly 1,800 underwater explosives to scare away fur seals intent on nabbing fish, government figures show.

India, a country of nearly 1.5 billion people, has long relied on coal to power its growing economy.

Microplastics act like a “Trojan horse,” delivering pollutants, pesticides, and bacteria through the soil, a five-year multinational research project has found.

As researchers around the world begin work on the next U.N. climate assessment, fears are growing that the Trump administration could meddle with critical U.S. climate data.

At least 124 people were murdered last year for defending their forests, farms, or waterways from destruction or degradation, according to a stark new report.

Human rights lawyer Julian Aguon explores how warming threatens not only the survival of small island nations but also the traditions of their Indigenous peoples.

Iceland is one of just three countries, along with Norway and Japan, that still allows commercial whaling in its waters, but that may be about to change.

As the planet heats up, tundras are thawing, wetlands are fermenting, and forests are succumbing to larger and more frequent wildfires.

Stretching from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico, a massive bloom of sargassum seaweed is swamping beaches and killing coastal wildlife.

By several measures, Chinese industry is becoming less dependent on fossil fuels, according to a new analysis.

Almost half of the world’s farmers are poisoned by pesticides every single year, a study has found.

Penguin colonies are so large that their masses of excrement can be seen from space, offering scientists a useful means of studying the Antarctic birds.

Fueled by climate change and a strengthening El Niño, record-setting marine heat waves are gripping oceans worldwide and playing havoc with sea life.

Across the U.S., tech companies have courted backlash for using polluting gas generators to power massive new data centers.

Recent fires in Spokane, Washington, and Reno, Nevada, illustrate the risks from suburban sprawl, experts say.

Five days after a calamitous flood washed through Rasuwa, Nepal, the death toll continues to climb.

Households and businesses are driving a solar boom in Africa, where rooftop arrays and other small systems account for the bulk of new solar installations.

In 2024, the Biden administration enacted wide-ranging regulations to protect communities near petrochemical plants from air toxics.

A study from Scotland found that living near an accessible urban woodland significantly lowered the likelihood of being prescribed antidepressants.

Fishers operating off the coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia, are detonating more than 8,000 underwater explosives each year, researchers estimate.

On a vast network of rivers flowing through the jungles of Papua New Guinea, researchers have rediscovered the spinach pipefish, a relative of the seahorse, which had not been recorded in more than 40 years.

On the arid African savanna, grasses are growing faster than they were a generation ago, boosted by rising levels of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.

In “Chocolates Melting Away” — the First-Place Winner of the 2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — Breech Asher Harani explores how cacao growers in the Philippines are developing new techniques to protect their crops from increasingly turbulent weathe…

A controversial scheme aimed at slashing car pollution in Central London was a boon to children in the area, whose lungs grew faster after the program was launched, researchers found.

A vast system of Atlantic currents appears to be weakening, and scientists say its collapse could lead to dramatic cooling in northern Europe.

China is leading the world on renewable energy, last year installing more wind and solar capacity than every other country put together.

A little more than one year ago, Australia rolled out a program to heavily subsidize home batteries, part of a larger effort to make use of the huge volumes of solar energy that were going to waste.

In “Here There Was Cerrado” — the Second-Place Winner of the 2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — Natascha Otoya shows how industrial farms are plowing up the Brazilian savanna, changing the flow of water, and skewing human memory of the landscape.

An ongoing drought in Europe has sapped French rivers.

As Brazil cracks down on the illegal clearing of forests, farmers and ranchers are moving into Bolivia, helping to fuel a wave of deforestation in a country where land is cheap and enforcement lax.