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Dutch supermarkets halt Atlantic mackerel sales amid overfishing concerns.Current stock will still be sold, but Lidl plans to stop next month, Jumbo likely around the end of the year, while Albert Heijn has not announced a date. nltimes.nl/2025/10/06/d...

Nature’s voice? Trees speak up in AI-powered experiment Ever wondered what a tree might say if it could talk? A creative AI project lets passersby find out in real-time conversations

Droga5 dreamed up Agency for Nature,giving voice to trees in London,Dublin and in Austin,Texas.Bioelectrical signals from each tree were transformed into speech through AI,it was fed insights about the trees’ lifespans and histories,alongside data from biosensors. www.positive.news/environment/...

Strategy aims to reverse decline of wildlife in BCP Council area BCP Council wants to protect greenspaces and ensure wildlife thrives in the area.

BCP Council endorsed the local nature recovery strategy which commits to protecting greenspaces and ensuring wildlife thrives throughout Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole "for generations to come". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pine martens released on Exmoor in 'positive sign for nature' They are

9 females and 10 males from Scottish populations were introduced at secret locations on Exmoor by the Two Moors Pine Marten Project over three weeks last month.Each pine marten has been fitted with a radio collar to follow them over the next six to nine months. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Green light for 250-acre nature reserve in Aylesbury Barratt David Wilson Homes, RSPB and Buckinghamshire Council planned reserve east of developer's 2,450-home scheme

RSPB and Buckinghamshire Council planned reserve east a 2,450-home scheme.Buckinghamshire Council has approved plans for a new 250-acre nature reserve in Aylesbury, called Kingsbrook Meadows,will be equivalent in size to around 140 full-size football pitches. www.housingtoday.co.uk/news/green-l...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

Solar power delivered a growth meeting 83% of the increase in electricity demand,it has now been the largest source of new electricity globally.Coal,a major contributor to global warming,was still the world's largest individual source of energy generation in 2024. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fast-fashion recycling: how ‘the castoff capital of the world’ is making Indian factory workers sick Reports of lung disease, skin conditions and even cancer are rising in Panipat, which recycles 1 million tonnes of textile waste a year

A study by the University of Technology Sydney found that inhaled nano- and microplastics can penetrate deep into the respiratory tract, potentially contributing to diseases such as asthma, fibrosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Trump orders approval of 211-mile mining road through Alaska wilderness Ambler Road project, approved in Trump’s first term but blocked by Biden, would harm Native tribes and wildlife

Donald Trump ordered the approval of a proposed 211-mile road through an Alaska wilderness to allow mining of copper,cobalt,gold and other minerals.Ambler Road project,approved in Trump’s first term but blocked by Biden,as it would harm Native tribes and wildlife. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down

Butterflies are an ideal subject for study because they are among the most colourful organisms in the world. They display a vast array of colours across habitats, respond quickly to environmental changes and are easy to monitor. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Marine park threatens to euthanize 30 whales if Canada does not provide funding Marineland’s warning comes after Canadian official blocked the transfer of the beluga whales to a theme park in China

Marineland has threatened to euthanize 30 beluga whales if Canada’s federal government does not provide financial support.The warning comes after the country’s fisheries minister blocked the transfer of the captive whales to a theme park in China. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Cause of Gold Coast mass fish kill unknown with marine heatwave most likely culprit, scientists say Local community group says whatever the cause ‘kids shouldn’t be in the water’ with dead fish

Although authorities were still determining the cause of the fish deaths,early reports suggest they are temperature related and as a consequence there is low oxygen in the water. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Amid Rollbacks on Environmental Protections, the EPA Goes the Other Way on Delaware River Water Quality - Inside Climate News Environmental activists praise the new rule, which will improve the health of the river for fish. But wastewater-treatment utilities face millions in new costs to make it happen.

The federal government is raising the required oxygen level in an urban stretch of the Delaware River near Philadelphia to improve conditions,the move faces pushback from wastewater utilities that will have to pay millions for infrastructure upgrades to comply. insideclimatenews.org/news/0610202...

Detroit Is the Nation’s Most Challenging City for People with Asthma, a New Report Suggests - Inside Climate News Already plagued by industrial pollution and health care access issues, experts say climate change is making things even more difficult for people with asthma in Detroit.

The September report evaluates cities by three criteria: asthma prevalence, emergency department visits due to asthma attacks and asthma-related deaths. Detroit has consistently been among the worst-ranked cities insideclimatenews.org/news/0610202...

Along the banks of the Mon, fracking waste in a landfill once again poses a pollution problem The Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill accepts fracking waste. Some fear fracking contaminants like radium could end up in the Monongahela River.

Congress in 1980 exempted oil & gas waste from federal hazardous waste regulations.In 1988,the U.S. EPA determined that regulations were not warranted,cuttings & other fracking solid waste are classified as residual waste and can be sent to municipal landfills. www.alleghenyfront.org/mon-monongah...

Study finds US asthma inhalers produce same emissions as 500,000 cars Researchers say inhalers in the US alone generate annual emissions equivalent to 530,000 cars.

The inhalers people depend on to breathe are also warming the planet, producing annual emissions equivalent to more than half a million cars in the United States alone researchers have said in a major new study. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Southern right whales awe admirers in Patagonia after coming back from brink of extinction Southern right whales are swimming in greater numbers off the coast of Argentina’s Patagonia this year. The whales have come back from the brink of extinction.

The Southern right whale was nearly exterminated,before large scale whaling began,the population in southern waters was estimated at around 100,000,before it was decimated to about 600.Since then,it has slowly recovered to roughly 4,700 whales around Peninsula Valdés today apnews.com/article/whal...

Almost 15 million teens around the world using vapes, WHO report says The report marks the first time the WHO has tracked e-cigarette usage, and found that "adolescents are generally using the products at a higher rate than adults".

More than 100 million people around the world are using e-cigarettes, according to "alarming" estimates from the World Health Organisation,but the report said 14.7 million of the total believed to use e-cigarettes were reportedly children aged between 13 and 15 years old news.sky.com/story/almost...

Tariffs Are Making Copper Harder to Get. Recycling It Could be a Quick Fix Reusing the red metal could ease ballooning demands amid an AI data center boom.

The site secures copper that would otherwise be wasted from households and scrapyards,or even the ashes from burned household waste.Next,samples of the waste are analyzed to see how much metal the site can secure,Its then melted down and separated into different materials www.wsj.com/articles/tar...

Nobel medicine prize awarded to scientists for immune system discovery Nobel winners unravelled a new way the body keeps the immune system in check

Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi have been jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their significant discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Nairobi’s ‘Birdman’: Rescuing raptors on the streets of Kenya’s capital Rodgers Oloo Magutha, who’s lived much of his life on the streets, has big dreams of one day opening a bird shelter.

injured, sick,or orphaned birds found their way to Magutha.Over the years,he has cared for five black kites,crows,an owl,marabou storks and pigeons nursing them back to health before releasing them.At Uhuru Park, he teaches them to take their first flights and hunt. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

New Zealand will compensate Samoa $3.6M for a navy ship wreck a year after the vessel sank New Zealand has agreed to pay $3.6 million in compensation to Samoa a year after a after a navy ship ran aground on a reef.

New Zealand’s government said Monday it had agreed to pay 10 million Samoan tala ($3.6 million) in compensation to Samoa’s government, a year after New Zealand sailors drove a navy ship aground on a reef off the Pacific Island nation apnews.com/article/new-...

Before and after images show glaciers vanishing before our eyes They are melting like never seen before, changing landscapes around the world beyond recognition.

In 2024,glaciers outside the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica lost 450 billion tonnes of ice,equivalent to a block of ice 7km tall, 7km wide and 7km deep enough water to fill 180 million Olympic swimming pools according to the World Meteorological Organization www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Water bills: millions of households in England could face even bigger rises CMA poised to give verdict after appeal by five firms for permission to increase bills higher than allowed by Ofwat

Five water companies appealed to the Competition and Markets Authority to ask for permission to raise bills higher than allowed previously by the industry regulator,Ofwat Anglian,Northumbrian,Southern,Wessex and South East together serve 14.7 million customers. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...

Removing rats helps revive forests, birds & coral in the Marshall Islands On Bikar Atoll and Jemo Islet of the Marshall Islands, seabirds are returning, forests are regrowing and coral reefs are recovering. And it all stems from the removal of a single invasive pest: rats. ...

On Bikar Atoll and Jemo Islet of the Marshall Islands, seabirds are returning, forests are regrowing and coral reefs are recovering. And it all stems from the removal of a single invasive pest: rats. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

The Scientists Making the Case for Nature’s Rights - Inside Climate News A growing number of scientists are backing laws recognizing that nature has inherent rights and intrinsic value. A group of wetlands scientists wants the critical ecosystems they study to be next.

Led by Indigenous peoples, the rights of nature movement has grown dramatically over the last two decades, from constitutional protections in Ecuador to national legislation and court rulings in Spain, New Zealand, Panama, India and beyond. insideclimatenews.org/news/0510202...