Religion is increasingly recognised as a significant force in shaping public environmental awareness, yet the role of Qurʾānic interpretation in responding to contemporary ecological crises remains underexplored. While numerous studies highlight Islam's ethical relationship with the environment, the treatment of ecological verses within modern tafsīr has received limited focused analysis. This paper examines how modern Qurʾānic interpretation engages environmental degradation and climate-related concerns as pressing social realities. Building on the observation that more than two thousand Qurʾānic verses contain ecological elements, the study traces a shift in interpretive emphasis from viewing nature primarily as āyāt (signs of God) to framing these verses as ethical imperatives for environmental responsibility. It argues that a defining feature of modern tafsīr is its responsiveness to the social challenges of the interpreter's own historical context, with climate change representing one of the most urgent global crises today. Through a qualitative analysis of selected tafsīr works by Fazlur Rahman (d. 1988) and Muḥammad Mutawallī al-Shaʿrāwī (d. 1998), the paper explores how different methodological approaches in modern tafsīr address environmental concerns. Despite their divergent interpretive frameworks, both exegetes engage ecological issues through the Qurʾānic dialectic of reform and corruption, presenting environmental degradation as a moral and social problem rooted in human action. By highlighting how contemporary mufassirūn reinterpret ecological verses in response to environmental crisis, this paper demonstrates the potential of modern tafsīr to contribute to broader processes of ethical reflection, social reform, and environmental responsibility within Muslim communities. It thus contributes to interdisciplinary debates on religion, ecology, and the role of Islamic textual interpretation in confronting contemporary environmental challenges.