LivestockThe State Water Board's Dairy Remand Order tells the Central Valley regional board to test lagoons against shallow groundwater, meter nitrogen and set new loading limits.
Excavators working at night strip hills in Lama to supply about 40 brick kilns; silted streams have left 15 to 20 hamlets short of drinking water and raised the risk of landslides.
EnvironmentThe I Have and Plan Foundation is building MyTree, billed as Bangladesh's first AI-based digital tree monitoring app, giving each planted tree a QR-code ID and tracking whether it survives through AI verification, GPS and GIS mapping, satellite and drone monitoring.
EnvironmentThe 30-year Ganges treaty signed in 1996 expires on 12 December; India's foreign ministry spokesman said technical-level talks are going on and the matter belongs to the Joint Rivers Commission.
EnvironmentThe Department of Environment fined Nayan Packaging in Chourhas, Kushtia Sadar Tk 100,000 for making banned polythene, seized 845 kilograms and shut the factory.
A policy paper by board director Andy Bater asks lawmakers for a temporary moratorium while the state studies how data centres, and the power lines that feed them, affect farms and small communities.
EnvironmentA single hornet was photographed and captured in Ringaskiddy; rangers found no further activity, a year after two nests were removed in Co. Cork.
The Center for Zakat Management has built 12 flood-resilient houses on pillars in Rajibpur's Kodalkathi and Mohonganj unions; ten families have moved in and two homes are still being built.
EnvironmentNorthern Ireland Environment Link says protected areas may count for as little as 0.38% of land and freshwater, and DAERA has yet to publish how progress will be measured.
About 1.4 billion hectares grow food that is never eaten, FAO says, and the world has made no apparent progress on food losses since 2015; a new interactive Food Loss Index map was released.
CGIAR's urban food systems lead Dr Mukani Moyo points to compost in Vietnam, insect feed in Nairobi schools and food rescue in Lima, and says technology alone will not solve losses. The views are the writer's own.
FisheriesAn air sac that lets it breathe air, aestivation in burrows, a thick mucus coat and storing waste as urea instead of ammonia carry the stinging catfish through drought.
EnvironmentTwo foals born in August at a steppe sanctuary mark a milestone for the Altyn Dala project, which is restoring 75,000 square kilometres of overgrazed grassland.
