This study examines environmental communication on the UK-based Islam Channel’s YouTube platform and its relevance to community development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It combines a systematic literature review and bibliometric mapping with qualitative content analysis of 18 videos uploaded in 2023–2024, using NVivo 14 to analyse social, economic, and environmental themes. Of 99 coding assignments, 53 concerned social themes (54%), 35 economic themes (35%), and 11 environmental themes (11%). Environmental content formed the smallest share and frequently appeared within conflict-related humanitarian reporting, including accounts of damaged infrastructure and restricted access to water and other resources. These patterns suggest opportunities to give environmental issues a more sustained place in faith-based programming. The discussion relates this opportunity to Muslim communities facing climate and water-related challenges and explores Islamic concepts of khalifah fil ardh, mizan, fasad, and hima as resources for future environmental communication. Recommendations focus on editorial goals, culturally relevant narratives, solution-oriented reporting, partnerships, and evidence-informed content planning. The study offers a community development perspective on faith-based media and an agenda for strengthening its environmental communication.
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