As hurricane season draws to a close, residents of America's east coast are feeling relief, but for the people of Tangier Island in Virginia, the overwhelming threat of wind and waves remains. Tangier's 450 residents could become amongst the first climate refugees in the United States, but many of them don't believe that climate change is causing changes to their island.

World leaders, like US President Donald Trump and Brazilian President Bolsanaro have been calling global warming a hoax. A study shows that there is a link between climate change denial and right-wing nationalism. In an interview, the author of that study, Martin Hultman, explains how climate change denial is connected to politics.

Protecting our environment and the places we call home is one of the items on the agenda at the United Nations climate change conference in Katowice, Poland. Irene Banos Ruiz is reporting for DW at the conference, and told us what kinds of things are currently being discussed.

The illegal wildlife trade is one of the world's biggest contraband markets. According to the World Wildlife Fund, animal trafficking rakes in as much €17 billion a year. Yet the illegal trade in animals for pets goes mostly unnoticed. The population of the Barbary macaque has declined by 50 percent over the past two decades, and Nik Martin went to find out more about a recent ban on their trade.

Millions of farmers in Kenya live and survive off the land they call home, an unpredictable way of life. Christopher Unger met with one family whose source of food is also their source of income. The father hopes his sons can focus on their education, rather than worrying about the next harvest. This report is presented by Sam Baker.

It's not just warming temperatures and increasingly severe storms that are causing problems. There are also social implications to climate change. The Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami is seeing some of the earliest signs of climate gentrification in an area protected from rising sea levels. Wealthy people are driving up home prices and forcing current residents out. Maria Bakkalapulo reports.

Germany is drawing international environmental activists to protest its continued use of coal. While the nation waits for a January decision about its coal phase-out plans and it heads to COP 24 without an answer, the world is left to wonder, when will Germany really kick its coal habit?

With increased awareness about the problem of plastic pollution, our natural reaction may be to ask, ‘How can I help?’ Beach cleanups are one simple and positive answer, but do they really make a difference? Not necessarily, we learn on a beach in Honduras.

At least 200 environmental activists were killed in 2016. That number rose in 2017, according to Global Witness. South American activists especially face threats for their work. In a small mountain village in Chile, the indigenous community is still searching for justice after tragedy struck.

The first bicycle, a peddleless German affair, wobbled into the world in 1817. More than two centuries later, the bicycle remains an urban transport solution of the future. And nowhere more so than in the cycle-mad Dutch city of Utrecht.