[New] Wild horses threaten the survival of a number of native species and ecological communities, including alpine sphagnum bogs and fens, the broad-toothed rat, the northern and southern corroboree frogs, the alpine she-oak skink, the stocky galaxias fish and a number of plant species.
Environment and Heritage
[New] Contemporary ecological risks are increasingly global in scale, scope, and impact with strong levels of interconnection not only across national borders, but across continents.
Mega
[New] The other main change for 2026 will be the introduction of Enhanced Greening, which means more farming businesses will need to engage with ecological focus areas.
Farmers Weekly
[New] A population ceiling is more or less unprecedented; the closest comparison might be conservation laws that limit human settlement in ecologically fragile places like the Galapagos Islands.
The New Yorker
[New] The threat of nutria's spread remains a concern especially in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, which is one of California's most important water and ecological systems.
Edhat
Scientific consensus currently favours a global moratorium until ecological impacts are better characterised, and WWF has warned that deep-sea mining impacts would undermine efforts toward multiple Global Biodiversity Framework targets.
Pixcellence
Electric bikes offer huge growth potential as they endure to gain traction in Europe as a more ecological means of transport.
Precedence Research
Unchecked population growth, industrialization, and resource depletion could lead to ecological and economic collapse.
SpringerLink
Pollinators, which provide the agriculturally and ecologically essential service of pollination, are under threat at a global scale.
PubMed Central (PMC)
The Korean Demilitarized Zone, a buffer between North and South Korea, holds profound historical, cultural and ecological significance, as well as exceptional potential for conservation and transformation.
besjournals
For India and Indonesia, the monsoon season is fundamental to food security, water availability, and ecological stability, and the super El Nino may present a significant disruption.
ISCIENCES
The world faces the duality of producing food to feed a population expected to grow to 9.7 billion by 2050 while promoting ecological balance through sustainable practices.
SpringerLink
With continuing environmental concerns worldwide, there will be a greater need for bioacoustics sensing solutions in ecological research and conservation.
The Insight Partners
Although the relative share in offshore waters may appear low, researchers warn that their widespread presence signals a deeper, global-scale issue - one with uncertain ecological consequences.
Oceanographic
Climate change likely will not bring crocs back to the West Coast, but ecologists can use the ancient weather data to forecast the kinds of species that might thrive in a similar future.
Scientific American
In sub-Saharan Africa, the rapid expansion of mining and processing has increased the concentration of toxic metals in terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric systems, thereby exacerbating ecological degradation and health risks for workers and surrounding communities.
Nature
New research finds most countries are trending in the wrong direction when it comes to ecological risks from pesticides, with the UN's global risk reduction target unlikely to be met without substantial changes to agricultural systems.
Eco-business
In that context, rare earth geopolitics in Greenland and Venezuela sit alongside the broader scramble for critical minerals powering decarbonizing technologies as governments weigh cost, security, and ecological risk.
Intelligent Living
Rapid expansion of the salmon farming industry in Chile has been linked to ecological damage and concerns about worker safety, while Norway's wild salmon face an existential threat, with sea lice linked to salmon farms a contributing cause.
The Tyee
Last updated: 21 June 2026
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