Faith Leaders Chain Themselves to Citi HQ to Protest Fossil Fuel...
Two dozen faith leaders and their supporters were arrested on Tuesday after chaining themselves to the doors of Citigroup's New York City headquarters to...
‘Worrisome’: Global Methane Spike Imperils Climate Goals, Study Warns
Methane emissions are rising faster than expected, a new study has warned, and the surge is putting global climate goals at risk.
The study,
published...
BP Condemned Over ‘Mammoth Profits’ as Fossil Fuels Wreak Havoc on...
The London-based oil giant BP announced Tuesday that it hauled in $2.8 billion in profit during the second quarter of the year as the...
Working-Class Climate Protesters Arrested at JD Vance’s Senate Office
Eight of about 150 climate campaigners with the youth-led Sunrise Movement were arrested at a Monday protest at the U.S. Capitol office of Sen....
‘Where Have All the Butterflies Gone?’ Low Count Portends Sad Future...
A U.K. conservation charity sounded the alarm on Monday after a yearly butterfly count turned up a record low number of butterflies so far.
Participants...
Trump Would Let Industry Sway PFAS Rules and Endanger Public Health,...
A second Trump administration would cripple the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ability to protect the public from toxic "forever chemicals," The Guardian reported Sunday,...
Moms and Kids Protest Fossil Fuel Expansion at Citigroup CEO’s Home
Hundreds of activists, largely mothers and their kids, protested outside Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser's luxury apartment building in New York City on Saturday, calling...
Critics of East African Crude Oil Pipeline Target AIG in NYC
The "Summer of Heat" continues—both in terms of record-breaking temperatures driven by fossil fuels and a series of nonviolent direct actions targeting Wall Street...
UN Chief Says Rich Countries ‘Signing Away Our Future’ With Fossil...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday criticized the world's wealthiest countries for expanding fossil fuel production, one day after an analysis in The...
Harris Campaign Says ‘Oil Barons Are Salivating’ Over Second Trump Term
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday seized on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's close ties to oil executives, taking aim at the promises...
‘Contamination Crisis’: US Pesticides Contain PFAS, Endangering Food and Water
Pesticides used on crops in the United States are increasingly laced with "forever chemicals," making it likely that they are being spread in common...
‘Guilty of Genocide’: Tlaib Protests Netanyahu’s Speech to Congress
Following her
call for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's arrest during his visit to Washington, D.C., U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib protested the right-wing leader's...
US Leads Global Surge in Oil and Gas Expansion, Analysis Finds
Five wealthy countries including the United States have led a global surge in oil and gas development in 2024, threatening international climate goals, according...
Green Groups Endorse Kamala Harris, Say She’ll ‘Raise Climate Ambition’
Four environmental groups on Monday evening endorsed the presidential run of U.S. vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, whom many campaigners view...
Sunday Was Earth’s Hottest Day on Record
July 21 was Earth's hottest day on record, overtaking the record set last July during the
hottest year in millennia.
The European Copernicus Climate Change...
New EPA Funding Boosts Clean Energy Projects Across US
More than $4 billion in new funding for the Inflation Reduction Act's anti-pollution grants will help to "deliver a better, cleaner future for America,"...
Rwanda Agriculture Sector Outlook Ahead of 2024 AFS Forum
From September 3 – 6, 2024, all eyes will be on Rwanda, where world leaders, private sector players, scientists and researchers, farmers, and civil...
‘Groundbreaking’ Study Stresses Need to Protect Global Forest Carbon Sink
In what one researcher's group on Thursday hailed as a "groundbreaking" study, scientists from 11 countries highlighted "the critical role of forests in...
Sunrise Warns Trump-Vance Would Cause ‘Irreversible Damage’ to Climate
The Sunrise Movement, a youth-led climate organization, warned on Thursday that former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance, who take their place on...
UK Climate Campaigners Get ‘Utterly Disproportionate’ Sentences
In a decision that one United Nations official
called "beyond comprehension," a U.K. judge on Thursday sentenced five Just Stop Oil activists to a...
Oil Giant Ran 1977 Article Linking Climate Change to ‘Widespread Starvation’
A Marathon Oil Company magazine from 1977 predicted that rising temperatures caused by industrial activity could one day lead to "widespread starvation and other...
Shaping the next generation of Indigenous rangers: Interview with Manni Edwards
Manni Edwards credits his journey to preserving the wisdom of his elders to an encounter with goondoi 40 years ago. At the age of...
‘Disconnection Crisis’: Power Shutoffs Put Poor at Risk as Heatwaves Ravage...
Low-income Americans face climbing energy costs and the possibility of summertime power shutoffs—even amid a devastating heatwave—if they can't pay their utility bills, thanks...
To end turtle hunting, an African island state embraced the hunters
Five of the world’s seven species of marine turtles come to the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, in Africa’s Gulf of Guinea, to...
Harnessing ‘invisible forests in plain view’ to reforest the world
Tony Rinaudo had been attempting to reforest degraded land in Niger in the 1980s at a rate of 6,000 trees a year, but most...
‘Extinct’ trees found in Tanzania sparks hope for ecosystem recovery
In July 2023, botanist Andrea Bianchi was driving in the Nguru Mountains of eastern Tanzania when the broad pods on a tree growing in...
African markets tackle food insecurity and climate change — but lack...
Zimbabwe’s Mbare agricultural market in Harare, the biggest local market in the country’s capital city, opens at 5 a.m. and bustles. Between morning and...
Puerto Rico Sues Oil Giants Over Decades of Climate Deception
Puerto Rico's secretary of justice on Monday filed a climate liability lawsuit against fossil fuel companies including BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil Corporation, Shell, and...
Climate Movement Sounds Alarm on Trump Picking ‘Big Oil Sellout’ JD...
Climate campaigners reacted to former U.S. President Donald Trump's
selection of Sen. JD Vance as his running mate Monday by highlighting the Ohio Republican's...
Campaigners Demand Global Ban on Deep-Sea Mining
As talks to establish global policies on deep-sea mining resumed in Jamaica on Monday, Greenpeace International renewed its demand for a moratorium on the...
Women in Sierra Leone unite after devastating floods | Mongabay Sessions
In this episode of Mongabay Sessions, Romi Castagnino, Mongabay’s associate video producer, sits down with documentary director Ibrahim S. Miles Kamara. His film, Freetown...
Ugandan chimps are eating bat guano, raising concerns over human epidemics
“Finish your yogurt, sweetheart, it’s good for your bones. And take a few almonds, so you’ll stay healthy.” You may have heard this before,...
Biden Proposes New Protections From Oil and Gas Drilling in Western...
Indigenous groups in Alaska were joined by climate advocates on Friday in welcoming the Biden administration's proposal to expand protections from oil and gas...
Azerbaijan’s New Climate Fund, Easy on Fossil Fuel Producers, Denounced as...
Climate campaigners on Thursday dismissed Azerbaijan's plan for a $500 million climate investment fund, arguing that it was a small, poorly designed initiative meant...
As FEMA Unveils Flood Rule, Climate Campaigners Urge More Radical Overhaul
While welcoming the Federal Emergency Management Agency's new rule to better protect U.S. infrastructure from flooding, one climate campaigner stressed Wednesday that FEMA EMA...
New Ally Joins Fight to Defend Rooftop Solar in California
A leading U.S. green group on Tuesday joined the legal challenge to a California rule banning solar contractors from installing or maintaining photovoltaic battery...
Report Names Institutions Behind $4.3 Trillion in Climate-Wrecking Investments
Institutional investors including the Vanguard Group and BlackRock collectively own $4.3 trillion in the stocks and bonds of fossil fuel companies, according to a...
‘All of Our Tricks Worked’: Spoof ExxonMobil Ad Nails Just How...
A new parody ExxonMobil advertisement released Tuesday by a group founded by Adam McKay—the Academy Award-winning writer and director of the blockbuster doomsday climate...
‘Climate Caught in Crossfire’ as NATO Emissions Surged Last Year
The militaries of North Atlantic Treaty Organization member countries emitted an estimated 233 million metric tons of greenhouse gases in 2023, a sharp uptick...
Elders Arrested Protesting Citibank Funding of Planet’s Destruction
As Earth sizzles during what's likely to be its hottest summer on record amid a worsening planetary emergency, dozens of elder climate campaigners including...
13 Months of Record-Smashing Heat Called ‘Another Red Alert’ for Humanity
Scientists on Monday underscored the urgent need to accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy following the publication of data from the...
‘Clear and Present Danger’: US Faces Record Heat as Climate Crisis...
More than 120 million Americans from coast to coast were under heat advisories this weekend as large swaths of the United States faced scorching—and...
Africa’s great ape sanctuaries are feeling the heat from climate change
In April 2024, above-average rainfall caused Kenya’s Ewaso Nyiro River to burst its banks, flooding the area and wreaking havoc for residents, including more...
To protect the planet’s rangelands, give pastoralists a boost, UN report...
When it comes to conservation, forests and oceans are the big attention grabbers. But rangelands, which cover 54% of the planet’s terrestrial surface, are...
‘Insure Our Survival’: XR Launches Campaign at British Insurance Industry Awards...
Key industry players arriving at London's Royal Albert Hall Wednesday night for the
British Insurance Awards were met with a warning: Stop underwriting new...
Thousands Evacuated Amid Northern California Wildfire and Heatwave
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday declared a state of emergency in a northern county where a major wildfire has burned thousands of acres...
‘Apocalyptic Scenes’: Hurricane Beryl Leaves ‘Complete Devastation’ in Its Wake
Hurricane Beryl—the earliest Category 4 and Category 5 storm to ever form in the Atlantic Basin—killed at least seven people as it tore through...
‘Groundbreaking’ Report Calls for Protecting Rights of Climate Refugees
A human rights group on Wednesday released what it called "a gift to the international legal and climate action communities" to support their efforts...
Researchers Warn of Imminent ‘Death Spiral’ for Rapidly Melting Alaska Ice...
The melting of Alaska's Juneau ice field—which contains more than 1,000 glaciers—is accelerating and could reach a tipping point much sooner than predicted, according...
‘Historic’ Category 5 Hurricane Beryl Offers Terrifying View of Future
As Hurricane Beryl barreled toward Jamaica on Tuesday after killing at least four people in the Caribbean's Windward Islands, climate scientists warned the record-breaking...
‘Absurd and Nakedly Partisan’: Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks Biden LNG Pause
A Trump-appointed judge on Monday blocked the Biden administration's pause on approvals of new liquefied natural gas export permits, the latest move by the...
68 ‘Summer of Heat’ Activists Arrested in NYC Protesting Citgroup’s Fossil...
Scores of activists were arrested Friday during a protest outside Citigroup's New York City headquarters, where demonstrators condemned what organizers called the megabank's "racist...
Study: A third of Africa’s great apes at risk from mining...
Scientists have warned that mining of the metals needed for the global clean energy transition could threaten Africa’s already beleaguered great apes unless strong...
34,000-year-old termite mounds in South Africa are still being used
Inhabited termite mounds along the Buffels River in Namaqualand, South Africa, are an astounding 34,000 years old, according to a new study. Termites are...
‘Explorer elephants’ in transfrontier conservation area offer solution to tree damage
Elephants are known to be “ecosystem engineers,” altering habitats to suit their own needs, but this sometimes comes at a cost to other species....
‘Environmental Justice Nightmare’: FERC Approves Major LNG Export Terminal Despite Biden...
In what the Sunrise Movement
called a "disastrous decision," the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission voted 2-1 on Thursday to approve a certification for Venture...
Camera-trap study brings the lesula, Congo’s cryptic monkey, into focus
In 2012, the description of a new monkey species from the Congo Basin with an unforgettable, humanlike countenance made global news. Now, a camera...
Guardians of the sacred: Ethiopian Orthodox monks on spiritual forest conservation
BAHIR DAR, Ethiopia — The Zege Peninsula, a hidden gem on the southern shore of Lake Tana, is a serene escape in Ethiopia’s north....
Investigation confirms more abuses on Nigeria, Sierra Leone Socfin plantations
In 2023, Socfin hired a consultancy to investigate longstanding allegations of human rights violations and environmental damage raised by communities living around the Belgian...
Geoengineering Foes Say ‘No’ to Pouring 60K Gallons of Sodium Hydroxide...
Biodiversity advocates on Wednesday called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reject a new geoengineering project spearheaded by researchers in Massachusetts that one...
As chocolate prices skyrocket from decades of deforestation, adopting agroforestry is...
If you’re a chocoholic, you may have noticed that the price of cocoa recently went through the roof. Cocoa prices on the world market—which...
Legal Memo Makes Case for Prosecuting Big Oil Over Extreme Heat...
A U.S.-based consumer watchdog unveiled a legal memo Wednesday detailing how local or state prosecutors could bring criminal charges against Big Oil for deaths...
Elon Musk could avert global species extinction with only a portion...
Can we save thousands of the world’s most threatened animals and plants from extinction by protecting just a tiny fraction of the Earth’s surface?...
Analysis Shows Climate-Fueled Flooding Threatens Millions in US
As Americans endure extreme heat and wildfires exacerbated by fossil fuel-driven climate change, an analysis revealed Tuesday that rising seas threaten infrastructure critical for...
Conserving Just 1.2% of Earth’s Land Could Save Most Threatened Species...
Researchers revealed in a study published Monday that world governments are not doing enough to save the most endangered plant and animal species from...
Colorado Judge Rejects Exxon, Suncor Attempt to Kill Landmark Climate Suit
Advocates celebrated Monday after a Boulder, Colorado judge rejected attempts by ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy subsidiaries to dismiss a landmark lawsuit that seeks damages...
Climate Emergency Causes Extreme Wildfires to Double in Frequency: Study
New findings about the rising frequency of extreme wildfires have "the fingerprints of climate change" all over them, according to an Australian scientist who...
Country Profile : DRC Water
The DRC is the most water-rich country in Africa. It accounts for approximately 52 percent of Africa's surface water reserves and 23 percent of...
Mobilizing finance to build climate-resilient, sustainable African cities
In Africa, the current population of around 1.1 billion will double by 2050 and more than 80% of that increase will occur in cities....
Interview with Seth M. Siegel – Prominent Water Expert
Question ADM: Why Water?
Answer Seth: I got involved with water policy issues for two reasons: First, there aren't enough people talking about water, whether...
Water Realities
In the Agrifrica Digital Magazine we covered the realities of Water from various countries. Hereunder the snapshot of a few Countries Challenges & Solutions,...
Africa post-coronavirus green economy from Portugal to Africa
As countries in Europe are preparing for post-coronavirus world, African countries are advancing their Digital Economy, Green industries and blue economies.
In the case of...
African countries against plastic
According to the African Development Bank(AfDB), 500 billion plastic bags are used worldwide each year, much of which is plastic waste that pollutes the...
COVID19 effect: From real time Safari to Virtual Safaris
South African company WildEarth brings virtual safaris to a worldwide audience in the comfort of their living room via a camera that WildEarth guides...