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Wildlife populations around the world have declined by an average of 73% since 1970. That’s according to the WWF’s new 2026 Living Planet Index – a major estimate, updated every two years, of the changing state of nature. This does not mean that 73% of the world’s animals have disappeared. Rather, it is the average decline in the size of wildlife populations that is being monitored. The index is one of the metrics used to track progress towards the UN’s biodiversity goals and shapes narratives of biodiversity loss across the world. But the data behind that 73% headline, one of the most comprehensive available, is still far from complete.

The 2026 MLB playoff field was nearly sliced in half Wednesday night.

Guadalajara to host the competition from 25 July to 1 August as the Championships return to the Americas for the fourth time Paralympic and world champion Jose Arnulfo Castorena will be one at the home stars of the 2027 Worlds

A memorandum of understanding with the molten salt reactor developer Thorizon will examine Urenco's potential role in the molten salt fuel supply chain and how depleted uranium could become a fuel resource for advanced nuclear. The collaboration brings together two complementary parts of the advanced nuclear ecosystem, Thorizon said.

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WFP staff member oversees the offloading of a rice shipment at the Port of Aden, Yemen. Photo: WFP/Gabreez/Mahmoud Mohammed The flow of food, fuel, fertilizer and food between countries is essential to global food security, from farmers growing their crops to trucks being able to deliver produce to markets.

Paula Findlay feels like a rookie after two decades in triathlon, which she says is a good place to be. The 37-year-old from Edmonton won the first Ironman triathlon she entered, which punched her ticket for the biggie — Saturday’s world championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.