‘Thrilling’: Dutch cattle farmers switch to rice as solution to warmer climate and sinking peatlands
Dutch cattle farming dries out peatland and releases CO2. Is switching to Japanese rice-growing a solution?

Switzerland has lost almost one-fifth of its ice in just five years, research has found, in a dramatic reshaping of the Alpine country whose big white glaciers have been reduced to moonlike rock deserts, scientists say.
The “plug and play” simplicity that creates balcony solar’s appeal might not yet work safely with most household electrical systems, experts and utilities say.
As temperatures rise in the future, the number and frequency of strong El Niños could increase even further, some experts say.
Heatwaves and wildfires helped expose 34 percent of the world’s population to “extremely poor” ozone air quality in the first eight months of 2026, according to a European Union report.
Ethiopia is trying to restore its native forests through one of the world's most ambitious and well-funded tree-planting campaigns, but experts question whether the trees will survive.
