Scotland’s greenhouse gas emissions fall slightly as progress slows
The amount of planet-warming gases produced in 2024 fell by 1% compared to the previous year.
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‘Value of trees’ in council’s healthy spaces plan
The authority wants a more consistent approach to trees and woodlands with more protections.
Simple tips to help the UK’s butterflies
Simple tips to help the UK’s butterflies
UK’s last outstanding coal mine plan rejected
Plans to dig for 85,000 tonnes of coal at Glan Lash mine near Llandybie have been refused.
Ancient Maya knowledge helps Guatemalan farmers cut agrochemical use
In the mountain villages of Guatemala’s Western Highlands, farmers are combining ancient Maya knowledge with modern sustainable farming techniques to protect their crops from pests and disease. Smallholders are creating homemade biopesticides using plants with strong smells and flavors to…
The Galápagos is a wildlife haven. But is that enough to protect the rare scalloped hammerhead shark?
The species is abundant within the protected archipelago but when they migrate outside the marine reserve to give birth they run the gauntlet of industrial fishing The unmistakable fluted T-shape of a scalloped hammerhead shark slides by, followed by a…
A third of world’s energy needs should come from electricity by 2035, says Cop31 host
Turkish minister Murat Kurum says ‘electrifying daily life’ will be priority for this year’s UN climate summit The world should aim to meet a third of its energy needs from electricity within a decade to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the…
Movement gives African rural women farmers a voice, but still battles landownership
CHIRADZULU, Malawi — In Chiradzulu district in southern Malawi, 60 women who are members of the Rural Women’s Assembly grow fruits and vegetables alongside their staple crop, maize. In recent years, there’s been growing demand for their organically produced crops…
In Sumatra, social forestry links conservation with livelihoods
TANGGAMUS, Indonesia — When Sri Atmiatun arrived in the hills of the Batutegi region in southern Sumatra’s Lampung province in 2017, the coffee trees were already there, overgrown and neglected, slowly fading back into scrub. Her uncle had asked her…
Alaskans Reel From the Loss of National Science Foundation Ocean-Monitoring Instruments
In the nation’s fastest-warming state with a multi-billion-dollar fishing industry and storm-threatened coastal communities, scientists say the federal government’s decommission of a deepwater sensor system is ill-timed and wrong-headed. By Paula Dobbyn The upcoming loss of a deep-ocean monitoring system…