The cultural dimensions of environmental change.
The ocean carbon sink weakened by 6 percent, a new UN report finds ahead of COP31 — what the decline means, why blue carbon ecosystems matter, and why our monitoring of the sink is thinning just as it falters.
China clean tech exports avoid CO2 of about 450 million tonnes a year once installed, a CREA analysis finds — roughly Brazil's annual fossil-fuel emissions.
COP31 hosts coal expansion claims from Urgewald's Global Coal Exit List 2026 put Türkiye and Australia on the defensive weeks before Antalya, as 257 new coal projects outpaced 76 cancellations worldwide.
The Lancet Countdown 2026 report urges a formal global health emergency declaration, linking heat to a record 710,000 deaths in 2023 and $1.07 trillion in lost income in 2025.
Private jet emissions reached 16 million tonnes of CO2 in 2025, according to Oxfam's Disaster Divide report published 27 October — a footprint produced by roughly 250,000 people worldwide, weeks before COP31.
The Iberian lynx population 2025 count is 2,663 animals in Spain and Portugal, up from 94 in 2002 — a recovery built on breeding, rabbits and corridors, yet still short of 750 breeding females.
A bird flu Utah mink farm outbreak has run for more than two months with no cull ordered, exposing a regulatory gap between poultry rules and fur farming, ProPublica reported.
Berkeley Earth's 2026 warmest year on record forecast now stands at about 96% after a record-warm ocean September — while NOAA still expects a close second. Both outlooks, kept separate.
EU nature restoration plans were due on 1 September 2026, but only nine of 27 countries met the deadline in the Parliament debate, and just 15% of €6.5 billion in nature funds has been spent.
COP17 opened in Yerevan on 19 October for the first global review of the 2022 nature framework. Nearly 90% of parties have national targets — but fewer than half of assessed targets are on track, and even full delivery leaves oceans far short of 30%.
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