Homicide. It may have an exciting ring to it on screen, but in real life? The less of it the better. Good news then that homicides in England and Wales just hit a near-50-year low, with a big drop in knife killings helping the numbers tumble. news.fixthenews.com/rExE4ta

Once so polluted with waste, garbage and chemicals that it caught on fire, Toronto's Don River is now teeming with fish again after a C$1 billion re-naturalisation that rebuilt wetlands, reshaped the river’s course, and restored spawning habitat. news.fixthenews.com/Y4aVHVE

The flapper skate: a graceful marine giant growing up to 3m long and 2m wide. Having skated close to extinction, it's making a comeback in its home waters off the coast of Scotland, thanks largely to a commercial fishing ban that was put in place in 2009. news.fixthenews.com/WrZDeIk

In 2019, just 16.7% of rural India had access to tap water. By 2026, over 80%. That's 125 million rural households connected to clean, running water in just seven years. The biggest, fastest sanitation drive in human history. Headline news? news.fixthenews.com/GXw6J6M

“Social media has not distracted Gen Z from civic life but placed political participation in the palm of their hands.” Bulgarian youth activists have followed the Nepal playbook, turning their online networks into mass protest, forcing the unpopular government to resign. news.fixthenews.com/bJulwBb

Feral foxes, pest fish, wily weeds - three troublemakers being wrangled to restore shoreline breeding and foraging habitat as part of a new $17 million wetland repair programme in South Australia. news.fixthenews.com/bDt9URK

Ostrich of Arabia. Roaming Rhino. Sauna-cured Frog. 3 species re-inhabiting lands where they've long been lost. 3 uplifting stories from the cornucopia of good news in this week's Fix the News. fixthenews.com/p/326-dua-le...

China’s Yangtze is on the way to being a multi-porpoise river again. This finless form of the cetacean has leapt to a population of 1,426 - up from 177 in 2022. Scientists link the recovery to a fishing ban since 2021 and tighter habitat protection and monitoring. news.fixthenews.com/sDNrsWE

When did humans first light their own fires? Until recently the earliest unambiguous example - from a site in northern France - put the date at 50,000 years ago. Now a site Suffolk has set light to that idea, pushing the timeline back a further 350,000 years. news.fixthenews.com/Cpu5eJq

Bye bye coal, hello growth! Poland has cut coal’s share of electricity from 95% in 2000 to about 51% today, one of the fastest declines in Europe, while delivering exceptional economic growth. Over the same period, GDP per capita rose 143%, far outpacing the EU average. news.fixthenews.com/fDv2jM1

In the midst of daily hustle and bustle, we can easily register "chicken" as a mere menu item. Beware: it may be the flesh of a "frankenchicken", bred for fast-growing with little care for its welfare. Norway has just passed legislation to phase out this calamity. news.fixthenews.com/EQI8pyL

Tibet's got the hydropower, wind and solar, Guangdong’s got the factories. What's missing? A transmission line, due for completion in 2029, that will deliver over 43 TWh of clean electricity annually, cutting coal use by about 12 million tonnes. news.fixthenews.com/Q25sVYI

What happens when a city takes women’s unpaid work seriously? Since 2020 Bogotá has done just that, opening 25 neighbourhood hubs where caregivers can drop off children, do the laundry, and use free legal aid. The successful model is now spreading internationally. news.fixthenews.com/xp2mcwo

If your eye is on the global transport revolution then the EV surge surely has your attention. However, when it comes to cities, it's cyclists that are reshaping the daily A to B. Pandemic-era habits, cheaper batteries, and separated lanes are all playing their part. news.fixthenews.com/kz1jItj

Meet Veronika, the bovine backscratcher, whose recently documented use of a broom to get at that itch is causing a rethink of what we know about cow intelligence and mammalian tool-use in general. news.fixthenews.com/vBJBYxa

What makes you green? Envy, innocence, eco-reverence? Or inflammation? Rising inflammation in the body is one of the best ways to spot illness before symptoms show up. Now a Japanese team has found a way to bioengineer living skin to glow green when inflammation hits. news.fixthenews.com/ltZgtrt

The Amazon, we are told, act as "the lungs" of the planet. Well lungs don't work so well when they're in pieces. Hence the joyous news of two new protected areas recently announced by Bolivia: they stitch together existing protections across the western Amazon. news.fixthenews.com/LcKyEZW

Is the mental health crisis getting worse? Depends who you ask. UCLA surveyed 84,000+ students across 135 campuses across the US, and found severe depression fell to 18% in 2025 (down from 23% in 2022), and suicidal thoughts fell to 11% (from 15%). news.fixthenews.com/GbmdLpE

How can we truly green can the green energy revolution be when it relies so heavily on rare earth metals? Artificial lightning may provide some assistance. A new process called "flash joule heating" is being used to recover these important elements from e-waste. tinyurl.com/2xunft8q

This striking creature is a brujo flycatcher, one of a host of species that are on their way to flourishing again on the Galápagos island of Floreana, as ecosystem restoration efforts spanning decades hit a fresh stride. www.science.org/content/arti...

Europe's break up with Russian gas has been an exciting one with many industries and jurisdictions fast-tracking their green energy transitions. Now the EU have made it official with laws now in place to end Russian gas imports including heavy penalties for non-compliance. tinyurl.com/23h7q6v9

"National Emergencies" come in many flavours these days, but one in particular is being tackled with vigour by the UK: the crisis of rising energy bills. A new £15b plan funding solar and batteries aims to reduce gas dependence and lift one million out of fuel poverty. tinyurl.com/2bumjutm

As the capacity of the lithium-ion battery to store energy spirals ever upward, so does its popularity: global demand rose 29% in 2025. Electric vehicles accounted for most of overall demand, but grid-scale battery energy storage systems grew fastest, up 51% year-on-year. tinyurl.com/23rbhz6h

What is a prairie fish, and how do you save it? Sounds like a magical creature that swims through grasslands. In reality it inhabits the liminal world of the oxbow wetlands, and efforts to restore its habitat in Iowa are also improving water quality. tinyurl.com/26vz4o5b

In the 1980's Ethiopia was synonymous with famine. What's their current claim to fame? 32 billion trees and seedlings planted across degraded hillsides, farms and river basins since 2019 - part of their Green Legacy Initiative aimed at stabilising landscapes and livelihoods. tinyurl.com/2btfys87

At first glance this image might look like death and destruction. Look again, its a controlled-burn, part of an Indigenous-led restoration of Black Oak Savanna in Ontario that has brought back thriving, carbon-storing, biodiverse grasslands, from near eradication 25 years ago. tinyurl.com/25xfwttl

"Farming the Amazon" doesn't necessarily need to set off alarm bells any more. The indigenous practice of agroforestry is gaining traction in Brazil, replacing degraded pasture with mixed tree-crop systems that restore soils, cut emissions, provide habitat and raise incomes. tinyurl.com/2cn6p84l

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"A world-first gene therapy which turns white blood cells into a disease-busting “living drug” has reversed previously untreatable blood cancers." www.positive.news/society/revo...

Humans may have created the conditions that threaten reefs, but we're also capable of co-ordinating huge teams to collect coral spawn at sea, breed in heat-tolerance, and get vast numbers of embryos (35 million and counting) back in the water to accelerate reef restoration. tinyurl.com/2c7ml56q

Guess who's on the electro-tech fast-track? (Sounds fun) Lucky India, that's who. Their current development surge is bypassing a fossil-heavy growth phase, opening a credible path for emerging economies to grow as “electrostates” built on clean electricity not fossil fuels. tinyurl.com/26updckp

In the 80+ years since we ushered in the age of the nuclear bomb, what is the longest our planet has gone without a nuclear explosion? Answer: 8 years, 4 Months. We just crossed that milestone, which now places us in the longest hiatus so far. Long may it continue. tinyurl.com/24tvbmx2

Time to go old-timer. This turbine being felled at Bellacorick - Ireland's first commercial wind farm, "planted" 34 years ago - is making way for the next generation. The new turbine replacing it will generate more power than the entire site did in 1992. tinyurl.com/2bky8uk9

"Less is known about the topography beneath the ice of Antarctica than any other planetary surface in the inner solar system”. Despite Helen Ockenden's new paper opening with these words, the new map created by her team has pulled back the veil on this mysterious icy continent. tinyurl.com/29g8l9hj

Where do AI-powered robots go shopping? Well yes, we could send them to the supermarket for us, but what if direct them towards something highly undesirable, that's stuffed with resources that are really hard to extract: our garbage. Turns out that's already a thing. tinyurl.com/2c9fyvxv

Solar is slowing transforming how many humans experience and impact their world. Across rural Nigeria cheap panels and batteries are displacing diesel, restoring power where the grid has failed, extending business hours after dark, and local economies are booming as a result. tinyurl.com/2akrqn9g

Igniting hope for the year of the fire horse. In the 1960s, Prague Zoo took on the task of saving Earth's only remaining wild horse species from imminent extinction. Today they number 850 in the wild in Mongolia and are now roaming in Kazakhstan for the first time in 200 years. tinyurl.com/26x5u2ny

This the Puelo River, snaking its pristine way through the wilderness in Chile’s Cochamó Valley. Maybe one day your heart will pull you there, and what you find will still be a natural marvel, thanks to recent protections that have ended the long, looming threat of development. tinyurl.com/25ckysdk

8.5 million hectares of land - roughly the size of Austria or the United Arab Emirates - that's how much land China restored in 2025. New forests, large-scale grassland recovery, rehabilitation and treatment of desertified regions. A timely reversal of historic degradation. tinyurl.com/2bptw7gb

Trapper n. person who traps wild animals. Or perhaps we could offer a new definition: camera-operating conservationist. European wildcats, once thought lost from central Europe, are being rediscovered through camera traps. New population estimate: 140,000. tinyurl.com/24zs8ycs

Treasuring chestnuts. A fungus wiped out roughly four billion American chestnuts last century. Now a genetically engineered strain, carrying a wheat gene that neutralises fungal toxins, is demonstrating resistance to the blight. tinyurl.com/27upqjj5

Hunting trophies - a colonial blast from the past? Not quite. Appetite for these displays of human prowess and domination are still strong enough to warrant a new Belgian law banning imports of hunting trophies from endangered species. tinyurl.com/2yqj7hys

An explosion of water voles! That may become the new collective noun for the endangered species since their numbers surged across the east of England following sustained eradication of invasive American mink, their main predator. tinyurl.com/24ao9w7d

Here's some US stats to cut through the current high stakes focus on violent tensions. Data on American crime trends since 1979 reveal the country is the safest its been in half a century: robberies down 80% since their peak in 1991, burglaries down by almost 90% since 1980. tinyurl.com/2anzdvfl

Nearly 500 million years ago, the horseshoe crab found its form and stuck with it. Dinosaurs rose and fell. Then humans came along. Uh-oh, we know this story. With this ancient species now hanging by a thread New York has just passed legislation to phase out its harvesting. tinyurl.com/2asmkout

How many countries are in this picture? On a map, there's a line going down the river: Vietnam on one side, Laos on the other. The ecological reality: one flowing landscape. That reality was recently recognised by a new transboundary water agreement between the two states. tinyurl.com/25wk377p

If someone calls you a "bustard" consider it a rare compliment. The critically endangered Great Indian variety of this grand and graceful bird has recently been offered much needed reprieve: A Supreme Court ruling to re-route India's new Green Energy Corridor. tinyurl.com/2bq9q5ca

Have you ever been entertained by kākāpō? These parrots - the world's heaviest - are flightless, given to quirky antics, and endangered. This year though, the abundant fruiting of the rimu tree promises a huge mating season. The kākāpō show looks like it's here to stay. Yay.

Last year Morocco was the all important 60th country to ratify the High Seas Treaty, giving it the necessary numbers to become a legally enforceable framework. This month it came into force, bringing the expanses of ocean beyond national borders into humanity's active care. tinyurl.com/2dy7v2kp

It's been clean power 8-days-a-week in a first for California. Wind, water and sunshine met more than 100% of the states electricity demand for eight straight days in January, an unprecedented run (so much for the winter doldrums). x.com/mzjacobson/s...