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State of Europe’s environment not good: threats to nature and impacts of climate change top challenges https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/news/state-of-europes-environment-2025
Europe must step up efforts to protect environment: Report

State of Europe’s environment not good: threats to nature and impacts of climate change top challenges
Significant progress has been made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, but the overall state of Europe’s environment is not good, especially its nature which continues to face degradation, overexploitation and biodiversity loss. The impacts of accelerating climate change are also an urgent challenge, according to the European Environment Agency’s (EEA) most comprehensive, ‘state of environment’ report, published today. The outlook for most environmental trends is co…

Blue sky blues – or how to embrace the changing weather #webstories https://muz4now.com/web-stories/blue-sky-blues-or-how-to-embrace-the-weather

Blue sky blues - or how to embrace the changing weather
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Very proud to have my research featured in the latest edition of UCL's alumni magazine Portico alongside a stellar group of Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment colleagues including Fiona Zisch, Claire Heaviside and Haim Yacobi
Read the full piece on how the built environment can support or improve our health and wellbeing:

Designing healthier places | Portico Magazine | UCL
For better or worse, our environments shape us. Now, researchers from UCL’s The Bartlett are uncovering new ways for our built environment to support – and improve – our health and wellbeing.

Yesterday I finished reading Empire of AI by Karen Hao. I won't try to summarize or review it here, but it's an excellent book and I recommend it.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569/empire-of-ai-by-karen-hao/
This is one of tho…

Empire of AI by Karen Hao: 9780593657508 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An Instant New York Times Bestseller “Excellent and deeply reported.” —Tim Wu, The New York Times “Startling and intensely research...

"Organised crime making millions from illegal waste dumping in UK, says committee"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

Los Angeles will nearly double recycled water for 500,000 residents
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-10-31/los-angeles-wastewater-recycling

L.A. plans to recycle enough water to meet the needs of 500,000 people
Los Angeles is set to double the size of a planned facility that will transform wastewater into purified drinking water, recycling enough water to meet the needs of 500,000 people.

"Un nouveau rapport de l'Agence européenne pour l'environnement (AEE) publié lundi 29 septembre met en garde contre l'état de l'environnement en Europe, qui est "mauvais ou médiocre".
Les plus grands défis seront les phénomènes météorologiques extrêmes catalysés par le changement climatique, la perte de biodiversité et l'insécurité des systèmes d'approvisionnement en eau et en nourriture."

"How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health"
#Education #Children #Environment

Plan to kill 450,000 owls pushes past major obstacle
with Republicans both for and against
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-10-31/lawmakers-reject-bid-to-overturn-plan-to-cull-barred-owls-pa…

Plan to kill 450K owls pushes past major obstacle with Republicans both for and against
A plan to kill hundreds of thousands of barred owls to save spotted owls overcame a major threat when senators this week failed to pass a Republican-led effort to keep it from happening.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday that
nothing is "off the table" for cities with high crime rates
and that others could see federal law enforcement on their streets
— including in Republican-led states
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said that Trump's threats to crack down on Chicago without a request from the state is an "effort to manufacture a crisis and create a distraction."
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is laying…

Noem: More cities could see federal law enforcement on streets, even in red states
"Every single city is evaluated for what we need to do there to make it safer," Noem said Sunday.