Tuesday, October 27, 2026
An American mink. Photo: Patrick Reijnders / CC BY-SA 3.0

Bird flu keeps spreading on a Utah mink farm as officials hold off on...

Seven mink have tested positive on C&T Fenn Farms, and no federal rules cover sick mink, ProPublica reports; Utah has issued a verbal hold instead of a formal quarantine.
An electric car charging point in Cologne, Germany. Photo: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas / CC BY-SA 3.0

Hormuz Gas Crisis: 15.5 mn. EVs sold Globally this Year

Informed Comment's Juan Cole says electric vehicle sales rose despite a drop in U.S. EV sales and a fall in overall car sales in China.
A great hornbill in Goa, India. Photo: Rajan Hatiskar / CC BY-SA 4.0

Bangladesh’s hornbills face hunting risk during breeding season

Most of the 26 birds rescued from nests since 2023 were chicks, and cases cluster from May to August, when females stay in the nest.
Cattle grazing between trees. Photo: John Haynes / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sustainable silvopasture is popular with US farmers despite waning financial supports

A national survey of American farmers finds grazing livestock among trees is widespread, even as federal and other financial supports for the practice shrink.
A female polar bear with cubs along the Beaufort Sea coast. Photo: Alaska Region U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (public domain)

Fish and Wildlife Service finalizes five-year Arctic oil rule covering polar bear and walrus...

The industry's own estimate counts 123 polar bear harassments and no deaths over the period, while the agency's rule lists how deaths could still occur.
Granite rocks on the coast of Curieuse Island, Seychelles. Photo: NorbertNagel / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

From Small Islands to Antalya: COP31 Must Move Climate Promises from Paper to People

The former president of Seychelles writes that the climate summit in Antalya, Turkey must turn promises into delivery for small island states.
Downtown Ruidoso, New Mexico. Photo: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

“The River Can’t Be Trusted”

After wildfires scarred the Sacramento Mountains above Ruidoso, New Mexico, the community was under heightened threat of catastrophic flooding. Officials were aware but continued to promote the town to tourists who were oblivious to the danger.

Texas report projects data center growth would push air pollution back toward 2000s levels

The governor's September permit freeze runs until the state grid operator finishes an audit, as groups sue over generators at two San Antonio sites
Fossil remains of Neovenator, another predatory dinosaur from the Isle of Wight. Photo: Conty / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

New long-clawed British dinosaur is the first of its kind in Europe

A skull stored at the Natural History Museum for more than a century turns out to be a new species of predator
Solar cells and wind turbines at the Technical University of Łódź. Photo: Zorro2212 / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Clean energy finance passes fossil fuels for the first time, but little reaches low-income...

Oil Change International and Friends of the Earth U.S. report G20 and development bank clean energy finance averaged $52.7 billion a year from 2023 to 2025