Bialowieza Forest at threat from military tensions along the Poland-Belarus border
• Oct 23, 2025, 5:17 AM
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Poland’s militarisation of the border zone with Belarus is threatening the exceptional biodiversity of Europe’s last primeval forest, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1979. Human relationships with nature may also be impacted by the fortification of the zone, putting the future stewardship of the forest at risk, say researchers.
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French court rules TotalEnergies misled consumers in greenwashing trial
• 11:11 AM
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A French court on Thursday ruled oil and gas giant TotalEnergies had engaged in "misleading commercial practices" by overstating its climate pledges in the first decision applying France's greenwashing law to an energy company.
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Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms the country
• 9:59 AM
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Iceland has been one of the few places on Earth blissfully free of mosquitoes, but three specimens have now been discovered in the Island nation, in what could be a warning sign of a warming world. Yinka Oyetade has more.
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King Charles, Pope Leo pray together at Sistine Chapel in historic first
• 9:17 AM
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Britain's King Charles III on Thursday prayed publicly with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, marking the first joint prayer meeting between the heads of the English and Roman Catholic Churches since English monarch Henry VIII broke with Rome in 1534.
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Bialowieza Forest at threat from military tensions along the Poland-Belarus border
• 5:17 AM
1 min
Poland’s militarisation of the border zone with Belarus is threatening the exceptional biodiversity of Europe’s last primeval forest, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1979. Human relationships with nature may also be impacted by the fortification of th
Read the article