Dialogue Earth’s best photo stories of 2024

Our favourite shots from a year of reporting across the globe, from Indonesia’s mangroves to Chile’s ‘sacrifice zones’ and beyond
Ocean

Explainer: Why ocean temperatures are a growing concern

Cleaner global shipping, El Niño and a subsea volcano have all been implicated, as scientists rush to understand record-breaking ocean heat
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Areas of the sandy bed of the Piyulaga lagoon, in the Xingu Indigenous territory in Mato Grosso state, Brazil, lie exposed due to a historic drought in the Xingu Basin, August 2024. The nearby Waurá people depend on the lagoon’s fish for sustenance (Image: Flávia Milhorance / Dialogue Earth)</span></p>
Photo story

As Brazil’s Amazon grows drier, Indigenous people feel the squeeze

The Waurá people are fighting to restore degraded springs, with historic droughts increasing the vulnerability of waters and ways of life in the Xingu Basin

Highlights

people on muddy street Opinion

We need radical action on climate finance at COP29

The New Collective Quantified Goal needs a human rights-based approach to loss and damage – and we need to talk about the military, writes Maria Syed
aerial view of solar panels on roof in forested area Opinion

COP29: Latin America and Caribbean face huge hurdles to sustainable finance

The region receives 19 times more in revenue from activities linked to fossil fuel exports than it does in climate and biodiversity funding, write sustainable finance researchers
Opinion

Riding the 2024 COPs wave: Ocean issues connect everything

Ocean issues cut across all three major UN conferences taking place at the end of 2024, says Felipe Cárcamo Moreno
people walking through flood water Opinion

Analysis: Pakistan’s COP29 priorities

The key issue at the UN climate change conference in Azerbaijan will be financing adaptation and mitigation, argues Shafqat Kakakhel