It's one thing to know, another to prove it. In Ecuador’s Amazon, Indigenous ecologists are drawing on data and tech to lock in proof of their local knowledge. The result: court-grade evidence capable of defending forests from mining companies. news.fixthenews.com/5GAzpW4

Remember that cloud of IMF debt hanging over the African continent for all eternity? Well, Mozambique recently joined Nigeria and Namibia on a growing list of countries that are seeing the sky again, having cleared their $701 million IMF liability in late March. news.fixthenews.com/d49uU1U

The nightjar is one of Britain’s most elusive birds with silent, moth-like flight, and its eerie "churring" song has been a rare sound during its decades on the endangered list. Now however, it's making itself seen and heard again, thanks to dedicated habitat recovery. www.bbc.com/news/article...

One Year. 24,000 teachers. Rwanda is writing a new future into it books with bold investments in education. Step 1: 22,000 new classrooms. Step 2: certified teachers to lead them. 600 trainers trained them for a year of weekends and holidays to get the job done. news.fixthenews.com/CB8Ag7S.

After decades of poaching, Virunga National Park has witnessed a marvel many thought would never be seen again: an elephant herd swelling to 700 strong. And with their revival comes ecosystem restoration, as the populous pachyderms reshape the landscape for the better. news.fixthenews.com/VKkSVZO

Tired of the Trump administration's take-down tactics, US renewable energy firms are stepping into the political ring. Backed by wealthy investors, a new wave of lobbying by the sector aims to reshape support by emphasising jobs, domestic manufacturing and lower costs. news.fixthenews.com/cd6nU2B

"War drives Asia back to coal". If this take on recent events grabbed your attention, look again. Higher electricity prices and faster permitting are actually accelerating solar adoption across the region, boosting a structural shift away from fossil fuel dependence. news.fixthenews.com/UuUZSOf

Behold: bison hard at work repairing ecosystems. Yep, rehabilitation of a species that was nearly erased from Europe, is actually helping rebuild richer, more resilient landscapes. There's even stats to prove it: plant biomass and diversity up by about 30% in a decade. news.fixthenews.com/MBy57lp

There were 7 humpback sightings in the waters off Vancouver Island in 2003. Today that annual count has risen to 115. Rallying from near extinction, local sea otters now number 8,000+. This striking ecological return includes the rebuilding of entire food webs. archive.md/FIebq

Brazil has forged a new tool for keeping its forests intact. Banks must now check if rural loan applicants have any deforestation on their farms using satellite imagery. Where land has been cleared loan approvals can only be given with proof of deforestation permits. news.fixthenews.com/L7YagQo

Multiple categories, one winner: EVs. These are the coveted trophies of the 2026 World Car Awards, and whilst they were taken home by different manufacturers, there was a very significant clean sweep: electric vehicles won every major category. news.fixthenews.com/wtugOPN

Four hours max. That's usually how long donated hearts can survive outside the body. That very tight window is set to expand thanks to a new preservative fluid that triples the heart's out-of-body survival time to 12 hours, meaning a huge uptick in transplant access. news.fixthenews.com/AVVtY54

Earth's oceans are a crucial a battle front in humanity's clash between short-term extraction and long-term ecosystem care. Care is slowly advancing. Global ocean protection expanded by 5 million km² in the past 2 years, taking us past a milestone: 10% now protected. news.fixthenews.com/1759lBV

As war-driven fossil prices ripped through global markets, Britain's clean energy buildout provided the nation with an impressive buffer. Wind and solar cut gas generation to just 2.4% of their power mix in late March, helping prices fall to their lowest since October. news.fixthenews.com/3Alnv6S

Where are we at with women's rights? Despite visible global backlash, 68 countries have enacted 113 reforms strengthening workplace protections since 2023. These legal reforms have been locking in "hidden" progress that will produce real-world gains for years to come. news.fixthenews.com/uPbuQqj

Once a ravaged landscape of shafts, pits and scars, now a wildlife-rich oasis. Portugal's defunct Paul de Toirões mine is being restored to a functioning ecosystem, as natural grazing, habitat regeneration and species reintroduction reverse decades of industrial damage. news.fixthenews.com/b9AIQQu

What's the cost of corn? Define cost: cost to the consumer, cost of fertilisers, cost to the soil from fertiliser use? Well, all these costs could potentially be slashed using genes from ancient corn varietals including one that pulls its own nitrogen out of the air. news.fixthenews.com/1iYm4RT

Zero-emission buses are the new norm in Europe. In 2019 they counted for just 12% of new city bus sales. In 2025 they hit 60%. Battery-electric models are leading the shift, with some countries already at 100%. Oil shocks are only accelerating the transition. news.fixthenews.com/L4w62yH

The tiny British island of Jersey is famed for its cows, but not so well-known for hosting one of the most biodiverse marine habitats in Europe. From September these precious waters will be shielded from trawling and dredging under a bold new marine protection plan. news.fixthenews.com/BbFAiPt

Thirty-three to thousands — red crown lifts above the marsh, Hokkaidō breathes. Japan’s red-crowned crane, once limited to just 33 individuals in the Kushiro Wetland in Hokkaidō, is rebounding after decades of conservation and volunteer feeding efforts. news.fixthenews.com/NQ3WB7E

Here's a fun graph. You can barely see the green line at the bottom of the left hand bar. It represents the mere 1% of Nepalese new car sales that were EVs in 2019. Six years later the brown slice is on its way out, with EVs claiming 80% of the new car market. What a leap!

The Trump administration's attempt to derail a $1 billion Biden-era salmon recovery plan has faltered in the face of a recent federal judge ruling. The decision to restore the plan signals renewed legal momentum for ecosystem restoration and Indigenous treaty rights. news.fixthenews.com/6FQFgPS

As land-grabs go, it's pretty heartwarming. Since 2010 NGO Africa Parks has been returning elephants, lions and large herbivore herds to landscapes once emptied by war and poaching, and now manages 23 protected areas in 13 African countries covering more than 600,000 km² news.fixthenews.com/rjsTytP

The oil shock may be hurting pockets across the globe but its providing tangible uplift for one market: electric cars. Online searches, dealership visits and sales data are showing a spike in interest in EVs as as people try to escape volatile petrol costs. news.fixthenews.com/2xycwy6

68,800 km² of old-growth rainforest is lot of logs - logs that will now remain standing as living habitat and carbon storage in Alaska's Tongass National Forest, thanks to a recent US federal court ruling. news.fixthenews.com/z2tLG2L

China is rolling out ultra-high-voltage tech that could transform its transmission network into a national backbone for wind and solar. With an anticipated carrying capacity of 420 GW by 2030 the grid will have the potential to phase out coal rather than lock it in. news.fixthenews.com/LpDwORS

Zeroing in on water's power to generate electricity made dams seem like a great idea. But time's wider lens revealed the ecological mayhem of disconnected rivers. Fortunately a record number of dams were removed in the US in 2025, restoring life to moribund waterways. news.fixthenews.com/ANBwW4F

Python blood paving the way for side-effect free weight-loss drugs. Lab-quality home-test kits for STDs. Hearts kept alive for triple the time between transplants. Three healthy breakthroughs amidst the wonders in the week's Fix the News. fixthenews.com/p/333-school...

What do giant otters and striped hyenas have in common? They've both just received the highest level of protection available for migratory species under the UN wildlife convention. The decision requires countries to restore their habitats and cooperate across borders. news.fixthenews.com/odWKn7b

Safer streets for the Manila's 15 million inhabitants. A recent major win by citizen-led Move as One coalition has demonstrated that public pressure can reshape urban infrastructure, and low-cost design interventions can quickly improve road safety at city scale. news.fixthenews.com/cQtarKX

Delaying marriage has proven benefits to the health and education of young women, but how to disrupt entrenched cultural norms? Nigeria's Pathways to Choice programme is now bringing hope having reduced child marriage in 18 communities from 86% to 21% in just 2 years. news.fixthenews.com/vMVHZV3

“It’s breathtaking to see blows stretch from horizon to horizon, just as the first explorers to the region described over a century ago”. 40 years on from the international ban on commercial whaling antarctic humpback whales have recovered to nearly pre-whaling levels. news.fixthenews.com/8y3pllI

Desert nation it may be, but Saudi Arabia is turning the tide of desertification under its Green Initiative. The programme has restored 10,000 km² of degraded land and planted over 159 million trees, marking one of the largest coordinated arid-region restorations. www.arabnews.com/node/2637868...

After near-collapse in the 1990s Rwanda’s Akagera National Park has seen an incredible ecological recovery with successful reintroduction of lion, rhino, elephant and giraffe and core ecosystems restored. It's one of Africa’s most complete large-scale restoration turnarounds. archive.md/SpkDB

Meet Masripithecus moghraensis, perhaps the closest we've found yet to a common ancestor of all living apes. Recently discovered fossils of this new ape species, dated to 17–18 million years ago, are reshaping our understanding of the ape family tree. news.fixthenews.com/eZyOwy8

One of the most spectacular of the Falkland Islands archipelago, New Island is home to millions of seabirds. A new $5.7 million project to remove invasive species, rebuild habitats and stabilise soils is set to restore the island as a seabird stronghold. news.fixthenews.com/5RiiQ8r

Where would you look for evidence of how sharply lead exposure fell after modern environmental rules took hold in the United States? Turns out human hair provides an excellent record. Current hair samples used in a PNAS study show 100 times lower lead concentrations. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

In a world that is increasingly prone to severe wildfires, let's take a moment to appreciate the capabilities of these fire fungi. New research is showing the crucial role they play in breaking down charred landscapes to make carbon available for new plant growth. news.fixthenews.com/ofqFpx3

Europe’s forests are growing faster than they’re being cut. Expanding faster than they were harvested in 23 EU countries in 2023, the continent's forests are continuing to accumulate biomass overall, strengthening their role as carbon sinks and long-term natural assets. news.fixthenews.com/twbfGrQ

2025 was yet another record-breaking year for renewables: 814 GW of new solar and wind installations globally - more than the entire electricity capacity of the EU. Will 2026 continue the streak? Most likely. news.fixthenews.com/SvP1X7B

Looks like Europe’s decarbonisation blitz is weakening the historical link between fossil gas and power costs. Electricity prices across the continent are stabilising as renewables and market reforms reduce the system’s exposure to fossil fuel swings. Just in time. news.fixthenews.com/whYfeXn

Columbia's new Indigenous-led land governance model is expanding. 70,000 km² of Amazon forest is currently under the protective administration of 8 Indigenous Territorial Entities. That area is set to double with 12 more Indigenous territories in the pipeline. news.fixthenews.com/C0KJBse

If a sport recorded more than 3,800 injuries and 123 deaths in a single year, would you shut it down? That's the decision Scotland just made over greyhound racing. The new ban includes penalties of up to five years in prison or £20,000 fines. news.fixthenews.com/Qp6QbCE

There's nothing like a sponge to mop up excess water - a principle is at the heart of landscape-scale adaptations being made to reduce flood risk in Europe. The move to restoring wetlands that can soak up excess water, has the added benefit of boosting biodiversity. news.fixthenews.com/5iYfsLx

2 decades of advocacy has been rewarded with a huge eocological win in the South Atlantic. Brazil's creation of the Albardão Marine National Park protects over 10,000 km² of ocean with strict no-fishing zones and safeguards critical habitats for endangered cetaceans. news.fixthenews.com/VeRFcHu

Ocean Cleanup's corralling of 25M kilos of trash in 2025 already makes them the largest trash removal project on Earth. Now their next venture - the ambitious 30 Cities Program focussed on the world's most polluted outflows - just scored $121 million of vital funding. news.fixthenews.com/OnUm2qW

Deaths from breast cancer are on a long steady decline across Europe. A study of data from 21 countries shows the key role of screening programmes in allowing earlier diagnosis and more effective treatment, with the decline in mortality gaining pace from the late 1990s. news.fixthenews.com/lcESJTC

The UK may have had a constitutional monarchy for over 300 years, but during that time aristocrats have inherited their right to sit and vote in the House of Lords. Now, after 700 years, that practice has been voted out, marking a new era of democratic representation. news.fixthenews.com/dV8niBG

Conflict between short-term commercial interests and the health of fundamental ecosystems has found a fresh flashpoint in the deep oceans. Recent international negotiations have halted deep-sea mining as a growing coalition of 40 countries show support for a moratorium. news.fixthenews.com/v3tnjk6

For decades, policies that made Montana's Jocko River as ‘useful’ as possible mangled the river, endangering the bull trout that are sacred to the Salish and Kootenai. Now these tribes are using a landmark water rights compact to bring back the river and its sacred fish. news.fixthenews.com/YxMGm3G