For the first time, more than a tenth of the ocean is formally protected — the fastest expansion on record — and the whales are coming back. The honest asterisk: only about 3% of the sea is fully protected, and a line on a map is not a guarded sea.
Two-thirds of the ocean lies beyond any country's borders, and until this year no law could protect it. The High Seas Treaty has now entered into force — the first real framework for the largest commons on Earth.
In a town pressed between mountain and Atlantic, a big-wave surfer's small swim club has spent eight years turning nearness into belonging — opening the ocean to the children who grew up locked out of the water at their feet.
A coral reef the size of Vatican City. Twenty-eight new species. A cold seep, a whale fall, a phantom jellyfish. All discovered off the Argentine coast on a single expedition. Eighty percent of the world's ocean remains unmapped.
The Planet section of this edition reports the structural picture: Amazon deforestation in Brazil is on pace for its lowest year on record, driven significantly by the expansion of legally
A UNDP-supported land reclamation project in Funafuti, the capital of Tuvalu, has now constructed approximately 7.3 hectares of new land using a combination of dredged lagoon sediment and
Within his first days in office, the new Prime Minister of Solomon Islands, Jeremiah Manele, signed an executive order reinstating the country's ban on the export of live
Kenya’s energy ministry confirms 93 percent of consumed electricity now comes from renewable sources — primarily geothermal from the Rift Valley. The 100 percent target is set for 2030. Most wealthy nations are not on similar trajectories.
One of conservation’s few unambiguous wins. From fewer than 300 in the 1980s to 1,063 today, mountain gorillas are recovering — sustained by a rare three-government partnership across Rwanda, Uganda, and the DRC.