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  • ‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approaching

    Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis

    The El Niño climate phenomenon is “supersizing before our eyes”, the UN has said. The event is near certain to shatter temperature records, according to the latest forecasts.

    The El Niño is likely to be the largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into an atmosphere where temperatures are already rising rapidly due to global heating. The combination means 2027 is set to “blow apart” the record and be the hottest year ever recorded.

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  • Grinding up fish to feed to fish is ‘absurd’: fears over UN aquaculture plan

    Huge rollout of fish farms could harm ecosystems and threaten vulnerable communities’ food sources, say experts

    Nearly half of the world’s wild fish catch will be ground into animal feed for farmed fish if plans to expand aquaculture go ahead, a report has found.

    The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is aiming to increase aquaculture – where fish are farmed rather than caught in the wild – production by 75% by 2040.

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  • Invasive tropical mosquito found breeding in east London

    Climate crisis could increase incursions of Aedes aegypti, which can transmit Zika virus and dengue, experts say

    An mosquito capable of transmitting tropical diseases has been found breeding in homes in east London, with experts warning that the rapidly warming climate will lead to greater “incursions of invasive mosquitoes”.

    This is the first time the species has been identified breeding in the UK and the fourth time it has been detected.

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  • Bring on the drones: how a technology revolution is being rolled out across Africa’s nature reserves

    As graduates of an online training course gather from across the continent, the consensus is overwhelming: computers and saving animals go together

    On a bitingly cold night in Lapalala Wilderness nature reserve in South Africa’s Limpopo province, Duncan Kanyakera watches as instructor Jacques Viljoen deploys a thermal drone in search of a lone cheetah. Once the drone has disappeared into the inky sky, Kanyakera, from Tsavo in Kenya, and 20 other conservation professionals from across Africa turn their attention to the open-air screen in anticipation.

    Many of the students – from 11 African countries as far flung as Benin, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Madagascar – witnessing the demonstration have earned their places at Lapalala after performing well on an online training programme for protected area technicians (PAT) run by the Connected Conservation Foundation (CCF). Also on the course, are five members of Peace Parks staff in training.

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  • There’s a quick way to slow climate change. Why isn’t everyone doing it? - video

    Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that traps more than 80 times as much heat than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period and causes 25% of global heating today. We definitely don’t want this gas spewing needlessly into the atmosphere, but in 2023 that’s exactly what environment editor Damian Carrington found was happening when he reported on 1,000 super-emitting methane leaks across the globe. Now Turkmenistan, the worst country for mega-leaks, has begun to plug them. Damian tells Madeleine Finlay why some experts call stopping leaks the climate ‘emergency brake’ and reveals which countries are still failing to act.

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  • Country diary: A stranded traveller that looks more plastic than animal | Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

    Appledore, Devon: By-the-wind sailors have been washed up in great numbers this summer. I stumble on a single one of these bright blue beauties

    Amid the hot grit of the estuarine beach, a cool light glints. Not the habitual shade of mussel shells, nor even the shimmer of sea glass, this is a blue so bright that at first I mistake it for a kind of plastic, perhaps the discarded part of a pair of goggles.

    I’m about to pick it up when something prompts me to pause, mid-swoop; an inkling that this is not synthetic, but animal.

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  • Almost half of world’s farmers poisoned by pesticides every year, experts find

    Study reveals that pesticide poisoning kills 11,000 people each year, with India accounting for nearly 60% of fatalities

    Almost half of the world’s farmers are poisoned by pesticides every single year, a study has found.

    Using publicly available data from 2006-2023, the study, which was commissioned by Pesticide Action Network, found there to be an estimated 402-433m cases of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning of farmers and farm workers every year.

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  • Air pollution from ships may be more harmful than road traffic emissions, port study finds

    Scientists say ultrafine particles in cruise ship emissions associated with reduced ability to resist common viruses

    More than 2.5 million cruise passengers travelled through Southampton in 2025. It is also the UK’s leading vehicle and deep-sea trading port. You can see the ships and port machinery from miles around. All of this is downwind of a city of 260,000 people.

    A team of 32 researchers began investigating air pollution from the docks in 2018. Their research has revealed that the types of air pollution that come from ships may be more harmful than those from road traffic.

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  • Razed by wildfire, erased by USPS: Hawaiians fight to restore mail delivery

    Wildfire victims rebuilt their homes in Lahaina only to find USPS had ‘eliminated’ their addresses – while houses that didn’t burn receive mail as normal

    Two months after a devastating wildfire whipped through Lahaina in August 2023, Pam Reader was allowed back to see what was left of her home. With a heavy heart, she returned to the Hawaiian oceanside town now filled with endless blocks of burned houses. As she rounded her corner, she saw the only thing remaining was her bright turquoise mailbox.

    “It was an old crappy mailbox,” Reader said. “It was metal, though, which is why I think it survived.”

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  • A sun goddess, hundreds of devotees – and polluted water: the Nigerian festival threatened by gold mining

    Each year, people from across the world gather in a grove sacred to the Yoruba goddess Osun to be healed, conceive or realise their deepest wishes. But toxic lead, mercury and cyanide is leaching into the river

    7Devotees in white clothing line the riverbank, praying as they carry offerings of fruit, kola nut and sacrificial animals in supplication to Osun, the Yoruba goddess of fertility, beauty and healing, whose carved form stands with arms outstretched a few metres away in the Osun River.

    It is the final day of Nigeria’s annual Osun Osogbo festival in honour of the African deity, in a tradition that has existed for hundreds of years and draws people from across the diaspora.

    Yeye Omifunto Ojo performs a sacrifice at the Osun River

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