Wednesday, 4 November 2026
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Environmental and animal-welfare groups had called the permits 'macabre': the animals that survived August's fire are still weak and searching for shelter in a devastated landscape.
Driven by eight Latin American and three African countries, the proposal passed with 83 votes in favour, 12 against and 27 abstentions. A committee will now draft the text, and Indigenous peoples want a seat at the table.
Ten Cornish fishers tested two simple devices on more than 1,000 nets for a year and a half. The result: far fewer diving seabirds drowned. Bycatch 'is not inevitable', the authors say.
The #HandsOffNature campaign, led by BirdLife, ClientEarth, the European Environmental Bureau and WWF, delivered the signatures to Commissioner Jessika Roswall. The laws behind Natura 2000 are under review.
He was known for crossing roads near Galgamuwa. He died on 16 October after weeks of treatment for a gunshot wound. Sri Lanka loses between 380 and 490 wild elephants a year.
Some arrived dead; others died in an unheated warehouse. The Sloth World Orlando scandal has led to the SLOTHS Act, which would ban sloth imports except for science and conservation.
Requested by Alaska's oil and gas industry, the rule covers incidental take of polar bears and Pacific walruses through 2031. It drew more than 85,000 public comments, nearly all opposed.
After an executive order backing ranchers, the USDA has written to governors of states with wolves. Some are asked to loosen protections, others to keep hunting. The debate echoes Europe's.
A snowflake is made of ice, and ice is transparent. So why is snow white and glaciers blue? The answer lies in how light bounces and is absorbed.
The baby, a male, was born on 17 October to the female Ruzuzi. It is the Bageni family's fourth birth of the year and the park's seventeenth; Virunga is home to a quarter of the world's mountain gorillas.
The equatorial Pacific is much warmer than normal and forecast centres point to a very strong, perhaps historic, El Niño. We explain what it is, what is expected and what it could mean for the snow season.
At 78° north, Svalbard's main town is living Arctic warming first-hand: tap water unfit to drink, homes made uninhabitable by thawing permafrost, avalanches and tour guides changing their routes.
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