For the first time outside a global downturn, the world’s rising electricity demand is being met entirely by clean energy, marking 2025 as the first year with no increase in fossil fuel generation.
Colombia has declared its entire Amazon region a reserve for renewable natural resources, banning all new oil and large-scale mining projects across the vast biome that covers 42% of its territory.
South Korea has joined the Powering Past Coal Alliance, committing to close 40 coal-fired power plants by 2040 and stop building any new ones.
Scientists have identified a massive 900-metre-wide impact crater in Guangdong Province, China — the largest known crater formed in the past 11,000 years.
France’s insect-eating birds are showing the first signs of recovery after the 2018 ban on bee-harming pesticides, offering rare evidence that nature can rebound when given a chance.
Amid threats from loggers, miners and armed groups, Indigenous communities across Colombia’s Amazon have formed unarmed patrols to defend their forest — guided not by weapons, but by ancestral wisdom and unity.
Mongolia has launched one of the most ambitious land protection efforts in its history, pledging to conserve 30% of its territory through a 15-year plan that supports both nature and nomadic livelihoods.
A new Australian innovation is giving coral reefs a lifeline, with millions of coral larvae now thriving thanks to a breakthrough “larval seedbox” developed by scientists at CSIRO and Southern Cross University.
Rice farmers in the United States are turning their fields into seasonal wetlands, helping millions of migratory birds thrive while naturally fertilising their soil and improving harvests.
Once on the brink of collapse, U.S. fisheries have rebounded thanks to an unexpected partnership between commercial fishermen and environmental advocates that turned scarcity into sustainability and profit.
