“Bobcats are disease defenders,” Zara McDonald, founder of the U.S.-based conservation nonprofit Felidae Conservation Fund, tells host Mike DiGirolamo on Mongabay’s weekly podcast Newscast in February. Today, bobcats (Lynx rufus) are more

KIMANA, Kenya — Lush, fertile and green, the Laikipia highlands of Kenya are renowned for their beauty and abundant grasses that feed its wildlife and livestock. They’re also the theater more

YAOUNDÉ — In the village of Apouh, in southwestern Cameroon’s Edéa municipality, a group of women has remained steadfast in its fight against palm oil giant Socapalm. For several years, more

Since 2000, the melting of Arctic glaciers has exposed some 1,500 miles of coastline, a study finds.Read more on E360 → more

Plastic waste is increasingly causing problems for fishers. Fishnets bring up bottles, propellers get tangled in bags, water pumps get clogged with debris, and boats collide with bags of trash. more

As Texas stares down a water shortfall, its leaders are looking at vast volumes of brown, briney oilfield wastewater as a hopeful source of future supply. They don’t have many more

"The health of Palestinians affects the health of Israelis and vice versa. And the best example is water." more

The batteries inside electric vehicles can do a lot more than power a car. They can back up homes, schools, and businesses during power outages. They can soak up grid more

PALEMBANG, Indonesia – The pempek restaurants in the Plaju neighborood were full to the gills in early March. Palembang chefs pulverized mudfish caught from the Musi River into subtle variations more

DURHAM, N.C.—At Duke University, an elite school teeming with stars, Ben Abram shone among the brightest. Media reports from his undergraduate years, 2003 to 2007, portray a young man whose more

DENVER—Few states over the past decade have been as progressive on climate action as Colorado, which is endeavoring to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2030, and more

On social media a self-proclaimed earthquake predictor says he can forecast big shakes, but experts say it's pure luck. more

This week, a jury in North Dakota found Greenpeace liable for more than $660 million in damages to Energy Transfer, the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline. It was a more

On Feb. 14, the Trump administration fired around 1,000 employees from the National Park Service, part of a widespread federal workforce purge that many have referred to as the “Valentine’s more

For the Akit tribe of Bengkalis and Pelalawan districts in Riau province, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, land is more than just soil beneath their feet: it is their more

“They’re curious about us, and we’re curious about them.” That’s how Daniel Cangussu describes the recent interaction with a small Indigenous group that had just contacted non-Indigenous society in the more

As Nepal’s reptiles are one of the least studied among the country’s diverse flora and fauna, researchers have long been saying that it could be home to numerous species waiting more

A community conservation team saw not one but two baby Cao-vit gibbons, one of the world’s rarest apes, in the remote forests of northern Vietnam in 2024, the NGO Fauna more

RICHMOND, Va.—It’s all eyes on Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin now to take action on a number of bills aimed at increasing renewable energy development in the state and utility more

Few regulations have been as subject to the yo-yo of successive presidential administrations and their political whims. more

Rural residents are left holding the bills for everything from solar panels to grain dryers. more

More than 2 billion people around the world live without access to safe drinkable water, as rivers, groundwater, lakes and glaciers face continued threats of pollution and overexploitation due to more

A growing chorus of New England state officials — and not just Republicans — is calling for cuts to clean energy programs in an attempt to rein in high electric more

The government says the new Western Forest project will help the UK meet its tree-planting targets. more

Conservation NGOs and commercial sardine and anchovy fisheries in South Africa have reached an out-of-court settlement agreeing to extents of fishing closures around six key African penguin breeding colonies. The more

JAKARTA — Palm oil companies in Indonesia continue to operate on protected peatlands and clear forests, despite having their forestry permits revoked and being certified as sustainable, a new report more

The government has announced the funding for 200 schools and hospitals apiece across the UK. more

Fisheries observers hold a job little known by the general public but essential to the health of the oceans: monitoring the work on industrial fishing vessels. The sector has its more

A U.S. federal judge recently ordered the Trump administration’s Fish and Wildlife Service to complete assessments on the impacts of six pesticides and the steps needed to protect endangered species more

And after two Nasa astronauts were finally brought home, we ask why SpaceX stole the show. more

A jury in the U.S. state of North Dakota has found the environmental advocacy group Greenpeace liable for defamation against Texas-based Energy Transfer, operator of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Greenpeace more

Bat researchers recently declared a “major victory” in helping stop the online ornamental trade of bats, especially the painted woolly bat that’s sought as a décor or trinket for its more

Industry groups expressed concerns about California’s landmark plastic pollution law in the weeks before regulators were supposed to begin enforcing it. more

Canary Media’s " Eating the Earth " column explores the connections between the food we eat and the climate we live in. As a journalist who spent three decades reporting more

Colombia’s Ecopetrol polluted hundreds of sites, including water sources and wetlands, the BBC finds. more

New research could force a fundamental rethink of the nature of space and time. more

As the impacts of climate change and other threats mount, conservationists are racing to preserve endangered plant species in botanical garden “metacollections” in the hope of eventually returning them to more

Temperatures and carbon dioxide levels hit new highs last year, according to a U.N. report detailing the dire state of the global climate.Read more on E360 → more

Now they're turning to the UN for help. more

Indiana legislators are considering multiple bills to promote small modular nuclear reactors, including a controversial provision that would let utilities charge ratepayers for projects that may never be built. Such more

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plans to cut 20 percent of its workforce, a move the agency's former chair warned will be felt through “every component of American society.” more

New research finds that, pound for pound, grazing cattle generate at least as much heat-trapping gas as those raised in feedlots.Read more on E360 → more

While some states ban shutoffs during winter, summer outages are on the rise. more

It’s become the animating question in the U.S. electricity industry: How can power-hungry data centers get the energy they need? The obvious answers have proven insufficient. Solar and wind power more

The Nasa astronauts prepare to head to Earth after an eight-day mission turned into nine months. more

Hearings began Monday in a landmark climate case in Hamm, Germany, where a Peruvian farmer is suing energy giant RWE over its role in warming.Read more on E360 → more

A regulatory board’s rejection of a permit for a large solar farm in southwestern Ohio has “essentially rewritten” state law to give local governments veto power over clean energy projects, more

Despite dire predictions of climate breakdown, more Sports Utility Vehicles are being spotted on, and off, the roads. more

At some places of worship, hundreds of people attend the evening breaking of the fast — which means a lot of discarded food and plastic water bottles. This year, more more

This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. A wave of new reports and data out this week showed more

It is easy to overlook the low-rise, cream-colored building on Chicago’s Motor Row , a historic district that was a hub for auto dealers in the early 1900s. Yet the more

The president once derided attempts to develop new green technology as a "green new scam" - but his deal could help boost the US's potential in the sector more

BBC investigation finds nine out of ten high-risk contaminated areas have not been tested. more

On the coast of Newfoundland, waste from a shuttered asbestos mine has been a troubling source of contamination for decades. Now, a company plans to process the waste to draw more

The Trump administration has declared it is killing $20 billion in congressionally appropriated funding for solar power, energy efficiency, electric vehicles, and other money-saving and carbon-cutting investments for U.S. companies more

Everyone agrees that California’s major utilities are charging too much for electricity. But as in previous years, state lawmakers, regulators, and consumer advocates are at odds over what to do more

As waters rise along the Egyptian coast, hundreds of buildings in the historic port city of Alexandria have collapsed.Read more on E360 → more

Last May, Florida enacted a law deleting any reference to climate change from most of its state policies, a move Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis described as “restoring sanity in our more

As the legal fight continues over whether the Trump administration can ignore climate spending laws passed by Congress, North Carolina advocates are preparing for the next brewing federal threat. A more

The U.S. provides nearly a tenth of all climate finance globally, a well of funding that is at risk of drying up as the Trump administration takes aim at overseas more

This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. Illinois legislators and clean energy advocates have found themselves in a more

Months of proactive community engagement appeared to be paying off for the developer of the Grange Solar Grazing Center agrivoltaics project in central Ohio. Open Road Renewables knew it faced more

Ukraine lost roughly 600 square miles of forest in the first two years of its war with Russia, an area of woodland twice the size of New York City.Read more more

South Africa’s Succulent Karoo is the most biodiverse arid region on the planet, with thousands of plants found nowhere else. But to meet a demand fueled by social media, criminal more

Government-backed heat pump installations in the UK reached record levels for 2024. more

Two years after slashing compensation for rooftop solar owners who send power back to the grid, California policymakers are once again looking for ways to contain high and rising electricity more

Ascend Elements , a leading contender in advanced battery recycling, canceled a portion of its planned battery-materials plant last week. The company still aspires to expand a fully domestic battery more

Since its founding back in 2010, Shine Technologies has raised nearly $800 million to deliver on the potential of generating cheap, abundant energy from fusion. Like the dozens of other more

Experiments on mice could see hairy, genetically modified elephants living in the Arctic, a US company claims. more

U.S. manufacturers rely on more than 30,000 small industrial boilers to make a large number of things: foods, drinks, paper, chemicals, clothes, electronics, furniture, transportation equipment, and more. The vast more

A single storm in 2022 dumped enough snow on Greenland to replace 8 percent of ice lost that year. With warming, the Arctic is seeing stronger atmospheric rivers, which could more

Since 2017, sweeping legislation in Illinois has sparked a solar power boom and launched ambitious energy equity and green jobs programs. Now, for the third time in under a decade, more

In California, a state increasingly beset by devastating wildfires, the Karuk Tribe will be able to freely set controlled burns, helping to clear the dense underbrush that fuels larger and more

Welcome to Ohio Utility Watch, a monthly newsletter tracking developments in Ohio’s ongoing public-corruption saga, often referred to as the House Bill 6 or HB 6 scandal. I’m Kathiann Kowalski, more

The Trump administration axed hundreds of employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the key agencies tasked with making sure offshore wind activities can coexist with wildlife, more