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Climate, biodiversity, conservation and the natural world.
The United Nations Environment Programme announced that the world is now set to unavoidably breach the 1.5°C warming limit, shifting global climate strategy to minimizing overshoot.
Two Greenpeace activists were charged after boarding Woodside Energy's Scarborough gas platform off Western Australia, causing a pause in pre-commissioning work ahead of its planned Q4 2026 start.
The Arctic community of Longyearbyen, Norway, faces an ongoing drinking water crisis as heavy metal contamination linked to thawing permafrost has made tap water unsafe for its 2,600 residents since September 2025 [1][5][7].
Record numbers of Sandwich Terns are now nesting at Pagham Harbour, West Sussex, after conservation efforts followed a devastating 2022 avian flu outbreak.
Indonesia has initiated trials using dry ice dispersal to clear toxic haze blanketing parts of Southeast Asia, as wildfires burn across 202,000 hectares of land this year.
A new documentary details over ten years of wildlife reintroduction efforts at Australia's Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary, featuring species brought back from mainland extinction.
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon recorded its lowest level since 1988, declining by 42% in the year ending July 2026, just ahead of a pivotal presidential election runoff.
Antarctica's sea ice reached its third-lowest winter maximum on September 14, 2026, measuring approximately 17.59 million square kilometers, marking a continued decline since 2016.
New research from Anglia Ruskin University reveals managed honeybees actively outcompete native insect species for essential food resources in the UK.
A rare family of barn owls has settled in a Manhattan water tower, marking the first documented breeding of the species in the borough in modern history and drawing significant public attention.