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Municipales 2026 : au RN, cinquante ans d’impasses, d’échecs et des victoires importantes
https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2026/02/26/municipales-au-rn-cinquante-ans-d-impasses-d-e…

Municipales 2026 : au RN, cinquante ans d’impasses, d’échecs et des victoires importantes
Les ambitions contrariées du RN (1/5). Jean-Marie Le Pen n’avait qu’une élection en tête, la présidentielle. Avec lui, le FN s’est contenté d’un rôle marginal aux autres scrutins. Jusqu’à la rupture : Marine Le Pen prend les rênes et fait de l’implantation locale une étape-clé de sa stratégie de « dédiabolisation ».

Why forest conservation is also public health #environment

Why forest conservation is also public health
  In a lowland forest in southeastern Madagascar, what was missing proved as telling as what was found. Researchers trapping small mammals in the Manombo Special Reserve caught tuft-tailed rats in the intact interior forest. In the nearby littoral forest, despite repeated efforts, they found none. The traps held black rats instead. The observation appears […]

🪵 Nepal’s community forests sit on unsold timber
#nepal

Nepal’s community forests sit on unsold timber
KATHMANDU — The Khorthali Community Forest User Group in Dolakha, central Nepal, produced 1,189 cubic meters (42,000 cubic feet) of timber in 2025 — roughly 18 standard 40-foot shipping containers in volume. However, the group could not sell all of it. About 340 m3 (12,000 ft3) of wood still lies on the roadside. “Community members […]

RE: #Mansplaining

In Nepal, controversial dam threatens endangered pangolins: Study https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/in-nepal-controversial-dam-threatens-endangered-pangolins-study/

In Nepal, controversial dam threatens endangered pangolins: Study
KATHMANDU — A proposed dam in Kathmandu’s northeastern ridge promises to revive the sewage-choked sacred Bagmati River that runs past revered Hindu temples and ease the valley’s chronic water shortage. But conservationists warn that the project could exact a high ecological cost, even potentially impacting critically endangered wildlife within the Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park, where […]

How AI is used in journalism (yes, a serious application, that adds value, not possible on this scale before), https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-the-new-york-times-uses-a-custom-ai-tool-to-track-the-manosphere/

How The New York Times uses a custom AI tool to track the “manosphere”
The daily podcast round-up is just one way the Times is adopting in-house AI transcription and summarization tools.

Canada invests $1m into mining exploration on Indigenous land https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/canada-invests-1m-into-mining-exploration-on-indigenous-land/

Canada invests $1m into mining exploration on Indigenous land
A First Nation in Canada’s subarctic Northwest Territories has received C$1.5 million ($1.1 million) in federal funding to explore for elements on its traditional lands. The Tłı̨chǫ own a 39,000-square-kilometer (15,000-square-mile) stretch of boreal forest and tundra. On March 3, they announced a three-year prospecting project with the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency. Exploration will […]

Study finds bottom trawling nets 3,000 marine fish species, including threatened ones https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/04/study-finds-bottom-trawling-nets-3000-marine-fish-species-including-threatened-…

Study finds bottom trawling nets 3,000 marine fish species, including threatened ones
How many marine fish species do bottom trawls catch? Researchers now have a list, and it’s long, running to some 3,000 species, according to a recent study. Bottom trawling is a commercially popular, and controversial, fishing method in which boats drag weighted nets along the seafloor. Usually they target commercially valuable marine life at the […]

Australia spends $18b more on harming nature than protecting it: Study https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/02/australia-spends-18b-more-on-harming-nature-than-protecting-it-study/

Australia spends $18b more on harming nature than protecting it: Study
The Australian government spends more money on activities that harm biodiversity than those that protect biodiversity, a new study suggests. Australia is a biodiversity hotspot, home to more than two-thirds of the world’s marsupials and a high rate of endemic species, but the country has suffered significant species extinctions since European arrival. Under Target 18 […]

Indigenous communities oppose Papua forest rezoning for palm oil https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/indigenous-communities-oppose-papua-forest-rezoning-for-palm-oil/

Indigenous communities oppose Papua forest rezoning for palm oil
JAKARTA — Indigenous communities in Indonesia’s easternmost region of Papua accuse the government of underhanded zoning changes to expand the so-called food estate program there to include large-scale oil palm plantations. Indigenous representatives have filed a formal objection to two decrees issued by the Ministry of Forestry that reclassify 486,939 hectares (1.2 million acres) of […]