Local organisations are reviving self-sufficient food systems on Hawai‘i. On O‘ahu, non-profit Paepae o He‘eia has spent 26 years restoring a traditional 600-year-old pond known as kuapa, removing invasive mangrove and rebuilding a 2.1 km wall so the kuapa can once again “give back to the sea.” […]
The Ocean Census discovered 1,121 new species this year, pulled from depths down to 6,575 metres: highlights including a ghost shark, corals, crabs, and a bristle worm nesting inside the glassy skeleton of a sponge. https://oceancensus.org/
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Mexico wipes out farm debts for tens of thousands of small producers. Claudia Sheinbaum’s government will forgive or restructure debts owed by small farmers, fishers and rural producers to Mexico’s former agricultural finance agency, clearing liabilities for 99.5% of debtors. Peoples Dispatch […]
The UN General Assembly just voted 141-8 to endorse last year’s landmark International Court of Justice climate opinion, which says countries violate international law if they fail to protect people from climate harm. The resolution is non-binding, but it calls for stronger national climate […]
British beavers stop underground station flooding. Until two years ago, West London’s Greenford Tube station used to flood whenever it rained heavily. Then the Ealing Beaver Project got a licence to resettle a family of five beavers in Paradise Fields, an urban-forested park near the Greenford […]
Europe removes 603 river barriers, setting a record for the fifth year running. Sweden led with 173 removals, while Iceland and North Macedonia joined the movement for the first time. Overall, Europe reconnected more than 3,740 km of rivers last year, but with 1.2 million barriers still […]
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US federal court restores wildlife checks on coal mining. The US District Court for D.C. just struck down a 2020 permitting shortcut that allowed coal mines to avoid a full Endangered Species Act review. The ruling vacates a nationwide loophole used by mines in multiple states, meaning […]
Egypt upgrades another 763 kilometres of railway. The $440 million RISE project is modernising the Alexandria–Cairo–Nag Hammadi line, upgrading 70 signalling towers and lifting train punctuality from 75% to 90%, with the busiest routes reaching 95%. For more than 1 million weekday passengers […]
A Tokyo team has a kidney treatment that’s helping cats live longer. Most mammals carry a blood protein, AIM, that works like a cleanup crew: when kidney cells die and clog the tubules, AIM flags the debris so other cells clear it. A cat’s AIM isn’t built to do this, which is part of why cats […]
Britain’s River Wye granted legal rights in landmark move. Councils and protected-area bodies across England and Wales have endorsed a charter recognising the River Wye’s entire 209-kilometre catchment as a living ecosystem with rights to flow, regenerate, support biodiversity and be represented […]
