Environment

Around 5,000 flamingo chicks are seen at Lake Tuz, showing signs of recovery at the Turkish salt lake after five years of severe drought.

Asia's vultures recover after drug ban following a 99.9% population crash linked to cattle painkiller diclofenac.

Scientists named 1,121 new marine species in a single year, including a deep-sea ghost shark and a worm that lives inside a glass sponge.

The Outer Banks just had its best leatherback year on record – four nests of the giant endangered turtle, topping the whole previous decade.

French Polynesia will fully protect 200,000 square miles of ocean, about twice the size of Arizona, in one of the largest marine reserves anywhere on Earth.

US wildlife officials finalized about 1.5 million acres of critical habitat in six states for the rusty patched bumble bee, the first US bee listed as endangered.

US solar power out-generated coal for the first time in May 2026, supplying a record 12.8% of the nation's electricity, according to federal energy data.

A new solar panel desalination system turns seawater into clean drinking water, avoids toxic brine waste, and can recover lithium for batteries.

Three teens won the Global Earth Prize for Plas-Stick, a tamarind powder that clumps microplastics in water so they can be lifted out with a magnet.

Endangered North Atlantic right whales had 23 calves this season, the most since 2009, with shorter gaps between births hinting at a real recovery.