Daily Digest Daily Digest — October 29, 2026 Bleached coral recovered in seven weeks after touching a clone. NSW added 178,000 hectares to a koala park. Allegheny County signed 12 weeks of paid leave.
Environment & Climate US renewable capacity is on a path to pass natural gas within a year US renewable electricity generation rose 10.2 percent in the first eight months of 2026. EIA figures put renewable capacity on track to pass natural gas within a year. Capacity is not generation.
Environment & Climate New South Wales put 178,000 hectares into a koala park that is not open yet NSW passed a law adding 178,000 hectares to a Great Koala National Park. An estimated 12,000 koalas live there. The park is not open yet.
Science & Technology A bleached coral fragment coloured up where it touched its clone Bleached coral recovered in seven weeks after touching a healthy clone of itself. The fragments that did not touch died. A Stanford lab result, not a reef treatment.
Daily Digest Daily Digest — October 28, 2026 Bolivia designated about 715,000 acres along the Iténez. A brush stopped more toddler cavities than a placebo. Ten UK lenders opened a heat-pump loan.
Daily Digest Daily Digest — October 27, 2026 Kenya released the first 20 contacts of its Bundibugyo cluster after 21 days. 98 people are still inside. Oxford Street closed to buses.
Daily Digest Daily Digest — October 26, 2026 Gadis was cut out of a boar snare in Kalimantan. Her baby was still on her. A lung-cancer pill beat the pills already in clinic.
Daily Digest Daily Digest — October 25, 2026 Ebro Ahmed stopped a St. Paul school bus. A melanoma vaccine kept more people clear at two years. Survival is not shown yet.
Daily Digest Daily Digest — October 21, 2026 A pronghorn crossed a new grass bridge over Interstate 25, the first in decades. A Sydney study says one in four severe depressions may be a body clock.
Daily Digest Daily Digest — October 19, 2026 Fillongley knitted an RAF man to slow the cars. He was stolen before breakfast. Antarctic ice cliffs fell faster than the models, then stopped.
Environment & Climate The Map Was Short A Nature study estimates 26.81 percent of land was already in some conservation area in 2022, against an official 18.5 percent. The extra includes possible sites that are not yet recognised.
Daily Digest Daily Digest — October 18, 2026 Helga Duffy landed at Rendcomb with a Guinness certificate. The 101 crossing has a December date. Indonesia's extreme-poverty share fell from 86 percent to under 4.
Environment & Climate Eighty-Six Percent, in a Dry Year The first Tideway report says storm-overflow volumes into the tidal Thames fell about 86 percent in 2025. The year was dry.
Environment & Climate Ten Lanes, and a Date in December The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing over the 101 is set for 2 December 2026, if storms do not stop the soil work. The lions are not on the deck.
Daily Digest Daily Digest — October 17, 2026 Brazil recorded 3,335 square kilometres of Amazon clearance, the lowest since 1988. Sixty-nine countries voted to end the leap second. Six patients still had a vision gain.
Environment & Climate The Amazon Number Is the Lowest Since the Satellites Started Brazil recorded 3,335 square kilometres of Amazon clearance in the year to July 2026, the lowest since 1988. Fires are up, and a runoff is nine days away.
Daily Digest Daily Digest — October 16, 2026 Congress sent 1,082.63 Elwha acres to the President's desk. Five bleached coral fragments recovered after contact with a clone. Australia logged 5,358 megawatts of wind and solar decisions.
Australia Australia's Wind and Solar Decisions Have Already Passed 5,358 Megawatts Australia's Clean Energy Regulator recorded 5,358 megawatts of utility-scale wind and solar investment decisions by 30 September 2026, already above every full year on its table.
Daily Digest Daily Digest — October 15, 2026 Eight weeks of hepatitis C pills matched twelve. Mangroves gained 477 square kilometres. Three people are the first human test of partial reprogramming.
leopards Seven Leopards Are Back on the West Coast. Two of Them Are Cubs. Camera traps have identified at least seven leopards on South Africa's West Coast, including two cubs, after an absence of about 170 years. It is a foothold, not a secure population.
Sumatran rhino Ratu Is Carrying a Fourth Calf. The Father of the Other Calf Is an Uncle. Two Sumatran rhinos at Way Kambas are pregnant, due around May 2027. Ratu's calf would be her fourth. Delilah's sire is her paternal uncle. Eleven captive animals, all males related.
mangroves The World's Mangroves Gained 477 Square Kilometres. Indonesia Lost 2,043. Satellite maps show global mangrove cover up 477 square kilometres since 1985. India gained. Indonesia lost 2,043. Many new stands sit on fresh sediment, not old forest.
Daily Digest Daily Digest — October 14, 2026 A nurse in Congo Town, a lead-shot vote in Strasbourg, and New Zealand's heaviest insect with four wild generations.
chestnut Twenty American Chestnuts Went Back into the Ground at the Bronx Zoo The Bronx Zoo planted 20 blight-resistant American chestnuts on 5 October 2026, the first there in more than a century. A grove is not a forest.
salmon Chinook Have Recolonised 345 Kilometres of the Klamath After four Klamath dams came out, sonar counted 13,310 Chinook upstream in 2025. They have recolonised 345 kilometres. The river is not restored.
