Storm Kristin, which has been ravaging central Portugal since early February, is particularly severe: at least 16 dead, thousands evacuated and entire communities still without power and water. Wind gusts of over 200km/h and torrential rain caused rivers to burst their banks and crucial infrastructure to collapse.
It looks like a wide-eyed stuffed animal, the kind that stares at you and makes you melt instantly. But no: this tiny newborn primate is the only known venomous primate on Earth.
On February 17, 2026, the sky is preparing for one of the strongest astronomical spectacles of the year: an annular solar eclipse, with its famous ring of fire. A rare, impressive event that reminds us how small we are in the face of the perfect movements of the universe.
The Environment Agency has issued almost a hundred flood warnings and over 150 severe weather alerts in England, with active alerts across Scotland and Wales.
Patagonia is on fire along with endless heat waves, caused by high temperatures and the drought. All these factors make the areas drier and more vulnerable, increasing the risk of rapid and fierce wildfires.
The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, a 12,725-square-kilometer area just over 200km southeast of Cape Cod in the United States, is home to corals and sea sponges, whale sharks and a wide variety of marine mammals.
Nuclear fusion is no longer just a promise from the laboratory. Proceedings have begun in the United States to build a 350-megawatt power plant on a site that until a few years ago burned coal. A paradigm shift that tells much more than a simple industrial reconversion.
An extraordinary event is attracting the attention of nature lovers in California. A female gray wolf, nicknamed BEY03F, has crossed the mountains north of Santa Clarita, making this the first documented presence of a wolf in Los Angeles County in more than 100 years.
This is the only one of the artist's six known lion drawings to have remained in the hands of private collectors.
Every year in the European Union, millions of new garments are destroyed without ever having been worn. An absurdity that costs the planet about 5.6 million tons of CO₂ emissions a year - an amount comparable to Sweden's entire climate footprint. But now, Brussels has finally decided to end this practice, with clear and binding rules.