Environment

AL-BIREH / PNN/ The Palestinian Environment Quality Authority convened a meeting of the Environmental Sector Working Group on Sunday to review environmental conditions and coordinate priorities among government bodies and international partners. The meeting, chaired by Environment Quality Authority head Zaghloul Samhan, brought together representatives of the European Union, which serves as deputy chair, and…

The Warşîn Association, in coordination with the Environment Authority of the Autonomous Administration and the Environment Department of the People’s Municipality in Qamishlo, implemented an environmental initiative that included planting trees in the Ari Park, located in al-Shiyhi neighborhood of Qamishlo. The initiative involved planting 47 saplings, including 12 pine trees and 35 climbing roses,…

Shocking aerial photographs reveal how 30,000 tonnes of domestic waste the size of a football pitch has been illegally tipped at a protected location close to a small Midlands village. A major inquiry has been launched into the “sickening” large-scale fly-tipping of the shredded rubbish, which was uncovered last week at Cave’s Inn Pits, near…

Residents have raised concerns after a similar incident happened in the village eight years ago. Source link

Rescuers have released a young humpback whale that became a national sensation after it was beached in shallow waters off the coast in Germany, although marine experts have said its chances of survival are low. The whale, variously nicknamed Timmy or Hope, was released into the North Sea off Denmark after being transported there in…

Transition Town Wellington has provided an update on the various community gardening sites around the town along with a preview of plans for the rest of May. The dates of the month’s community gardening sessions – open to everyone irrespective of experience – are included after the latest update. Fox’s Field April saw the last…

Ian Waddington was crouched in his garden last summer, inspecting loose paving, when he lifted a slab and spotted something extraordinary: a tiny field mouse nestled in a hollow, feeding four babies – each half the size of his little finger. “It was astonishing. Like life in miniature,” he says. After decades in the construction…

Have you seen The Big Upgrade? It’s the new campaign from a group of water companies to publicise what they are going to do about fixing the water environment. It boasts the catchphrase ‘Big Plans for More Reservoirs’, and it makes it look like all of our concerns are pretty much unfounded. They go on…

An inferno blazes in Tehran after Israeli strikes on Iranian oil installations on March 7, 2026: analysts estimate that such attacks — along with Iranian retaliatory strikes — have collectively burned somewhere between 2.5 and 5.9 million barrels of oil, releasing roughly 1.8-2m tonnes of CO2 equivalent | AFP In 1991, as Iraqi forces withdrew…

The new ECA will cover the territorial seas and exclusive economic zones of the Faroe Islands, France, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, and the UK Source link