Consumer interest in green energy has surged in the UK as rising energy bills and petrol prices linked to Middle East conflict drive a shift toward solar panels and heat pumps, with record sales and new government standards aiming to transform home energy.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has issued new seasonal feeding advice to combat trichomonosis, a disease linked to greenfinch declines. This comes as the Big Garden Birdwatch reveals shifts in common garden species and conservation concerns for red-listed birds.
The grayling population in Lake Vättern is very weak, prompting a fishing ban since March last year that requires all unintentionally caught grayling to be immediately released.
Argentina's Congress has passed a controversial amendment to the Glacier Law that makes it easier to mine in glacier and periglacial regions. The amendment shifts responsibility for defining protected glacier areas from the national institute Ianigla to provincial governments.