Environment

Eco anxiety is very real, so we share this year’s most uplifting stories to prove there’s hope for our climate. Source link

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A sold-out Highland Biodiversity Conference took place at Highland Council HQ on Saturday 7 March 2026. The conference was organised by Highland Council, the High Life Highland Countryside Ranger Service and the Highland Environment Forum, and was supported by Scottish Forestry. The conference celebrated the positive impacts of Highland environmental projects over the last five…

Moharen Tahil Tambiling lowers himself from the fishing boat into the water and gingerly picks his way over the reef circling the bay. At low tide here in Brooke’s Point on Palawan, a long, rugged island in the south-west of the Philippines archipelago, the coral is just under the surface, and it looms suddenly under…

Communities will get new homes, better transport and cleaner energy sooner, thanks to a more dynamic, modern approach to regulation.  New guidelines in the form of Strategic Policy Statements will give Natural England and the Environment Agency – the two most powerful environmental regulators – a mandate to prioritise outcomes over process, speeding up decision-making while maintaining high environmental standards. This will be backed by £100 million, spread over three years, to fund specialist staff and modern…

Animal welfare campaigners are urging EU leaders to seek new approaches to exploding rat populations, as growing resistance to traditional poisons leads to the use of ever more toxic chemicals. The pesky rodents are estimated to number around seven million in Rome, between three and six million in Paris, and nearly two million in Brussels….

London, San Francisco and Beijing are among 19 global cities that have achieved “remarkable reductions” in air pollution, analysis has found, having slashed levels of two airway-aggravating pollutants by more than 20% since 2010. The analysis found interventions such as cycle lanes, uptake of electric cars and restrictions on polluting vehicles had helped to drive…

A change has come to the Iranian government. While airpower alone is unlikely to take down the regime, it will never be the same again. Over the past few decades, theocrats have steadily weakened the republican elements of the government, but the theocrats themselves have been surpassed by the Islamic…

In Chile’s most northerly region, Arica y Parinacota, Andrea Chellew, 62, relies on tourists for her cafe. They usually travel from the coastal city of Arica to the unique biosphere of the Andean highlands, which rise well above 5,000 metres and host nature reserves and wetlands. At 3,000 metres (9,800ft) above sea level, along Highway…

The Environment Agency (EA) has issued flood alerts for the Rivers Caldew and Petteril, Irthing and Esk near Carlisle; the Rivers Wampool and Ellen near Wigton and the Middle River Eden. Elsewhere in the Eden area, alerts are in place for the Rivers Lowther, Eamont and the Upper River Eden. Derwentwater, the Upper River Derwent…