Environment & Energy
A project reviving Mexico City’s ancient island farms wins a major food award
Arca Tierra, which is bringing Xochimilco’s centuries-old chinampas back into production, has been named a Champion of Change for 2026.
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Environment & Energy
The world’s tallest wind turbine reaches full height in Germany
A 365-metre turbine in a former coal-mining region of eastern Germany is set to power thousands of homes and test a new way to harvest stronger winds.
Environment & Energy
Bristol becomes the first UK city to ban fast-fashion adverts
Council-owned bus stops and screens will no longer carry ads for fast fashion, Black Friday sales, flights, SUVs or fossil fuel firms.
Environment & Energy
Germany maps out its exit from coal, oil and gas by 2045
Europe's biggest economy has approved a national plan to end its use of fossil fuels, backing electric cars and heat pumps.
Environment & Energy
Volunteers swap mowers for scythes to save one of Britain’s rarest bees
English Heritage volunteers in Somerset are cutting meadows by hand to protect the ground-nesting shrill carder bumblebee.
Environment & Energy
Norway protects a rich Arctic fjord for whales, seabirds and coral
The new Andfjorden marine protected area covers about 714 square miles of coral reefs, kelp forests and feeding grounds in northern Norway.
Environment & Energy
Solar cells produce power 10 metres beneath the sea
Perovskite cells tuned to the light that reaches through seawater could let ocean sensors and cameras run for years without anyone swapping their batteries.
Environment & Energy
Solar supplied a quarter of the EU’s electricity in June
For the first time solar provided 25% of the bloc’s power in a month, making it the EU’s single biggest source of electricity.
Environment & Energy
Amazon deforestation falls to its lowest level in a decade
Satellite data show forest clearing in Brazil’s Amazon dropped 38% in the first half of 2026.
Environment & Energy
New Zealand launches five new ‘national parks of the sea’
Co-managed by Ngāi Tahu and the Department of Conservation, the Otago reserves nearly double the country’s strongest marine protection.