Cyclone Arnab Triggers Floods, Landslide In Odisha, 3 Die

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• Rewilding project aims to restore peatland

  Cumbria Wildlife Trust has commenced a targeted intervention across Skiddaw Forest to safeguard a vital regional carbon store. By repairing degraded blanket bog, the conservation effort aims to mitigate downstream flood risks while reviving threatened wetland habitats. The surrounding landscape will remain entirely open to visitors throughout the multi-month environmental operation.

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• Nations commit to get nature goals back on track at UN biodiversity summit

  Delegates concluded contentious overtime negotiations in Yerevan, Armenia, by adopting two major texts designed to revive global conservation targets to reverse nature destruction by 2030. The resulting accords arrived amid deep divisions over financing mechanisms, scientific evidence, and damaging commercial subsidies. Observers and officials remain sharply divided over whether the compromised measures adequately confront the accelerating global ecological decline.

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• Hundreds of baby whales have died off the coast of Argentina this year

  Tissue analyses show that the bacterium *Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae* is behind an unprecedented spike in southern right whale fatalities around Peninsula Valdés. Scientists suspect kelp gulls are worsening the outbreak by pecking at surfacing whales and opening wounds vulnerable to lethal infection. Environmental shifts tied to climate change are also under review as researchers seek to understand why mortality has surged so far beyond historical records.

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