Stretching along the coast of the Sindh Province in southern Pakistan, the Indus Delta hosts one of the world’s largest mangrove ecosystems outside the humid tropics.

Celebrated annually on 22 May, the 2026 International Day for Biological Diversity highlights the importance of protecting ecosystems and species worldwide.

As the global race for computing power and cloud storage intensifies, the frontier for data processing may lie not on the ground, but in orbit. Orbital Data Centres (ODCs) represent a potential new capacity for the European space ecosystem and a building block of a larger in-space economy.

The Federated States of Micronesia, located in the Pacific Ocean north of Papua New Guinea, were heavily affected by Tropical Cyclone Sinlaku in April 2026, which brought severe weather conditions, and in particular strong winds, to the region.

Fires burning across parts of southern California, United States, have affected Santa Rosa Island, off the coast of California, and inland communities near Simi Valley, a city north-west of Los Angeles.