The FDA says the U.S. food supply is still "one of the safest in the world" Recalls are an indicator that the safety system is working, the FDA says.

CDC data shows there are more recalls this year than last year , but not unusually high.

There were 179 high-risk recalls in the fiscal year that ended in September .

Environmental Working Group : Inspections by FDA of food facilities are falling short of a congressional mandate.

They have also criticized the agency for not requiring testing of irrigation water sprayed on crops.

"These are the most preventable, needless deaths imaginable," said Scott Faber , senior vice president for government relations.

A 3-year-old whale that visits Cape Cod Bay every year was seen "skim feeding" The Center for Coastal Studies says that behavior is not typically seen this early in the season .

There are 372 North Atlantic right whales left in the world, according to the latest estimate.

Scientists at the University of Oviedo in Spain have found that mutant black frogs live just as long as their green counterparts, and they don't age faster.

That could mean the exclusion zone 1,0000 sq miles around ground zero is again fit for human habitation.

In 1986 , a meltdown at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant caused the the largest release of radioactive material into the environment in human history.

GAIA Initiative developed an artificial intelligence ( AI ) algorithm that classifies behaviours of white-backed vultures using animal tag data.

Vultures are perfectly adapted by millions of years of evolution to detect carcasses across vast landscapes quickly and reliably.

They have outstanding eye-vision and sophisticated communication that allows them to monitor very large areas of land when many individuals work together.

The new algorithms were developed by the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits .

AI-based analyses are implemented directly on tags fitted by the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research ( IZW ) The new system will provide reliable information on whether and where an animal carcass is located without prior data transfer in real time without any loss of time.

GAIA has so far fitted more than 130 vultures in different parts of Africa with tags.

Researchers discovered a new species of scorpion in a rainforest in Cuba .

They named it Rolando ’s scorpion after a Cuban arachnologist who died in 2023 .

Rolando Teruel Ochoa planned to describe the new species before his death, but his death was faster.

The new species has eight eyes, textured bodies and “slender” legs.

A new study measuring access to nature for eight major global cities found most still have inadequate canopy cover, despite access to an abundance of trees.

Less than 30% of buildings in New York City , Amsterdam , Buenos Aires , Denver , central Sydney and central Melbourne were in neighbourhoods with adequate canopy cover.

The research, a collaboration with the Technical University of Munich , studied over 2.5 million buildings across eight cities.

The researchers collaborated with Dutch firm Cobra Groeninzicht (Green Insights ) to visualise the results.

The ' 3-30-300' metric really demands that nature is brought to the areas that people actually live and work in, Weisser said.

"A municipality with almost treeless streets and a few large, well-forested parks may score well on aggregated metrics of canopy and per-capita greenery but will be exposed as inadequate".

An endangered fin whale was found over the weekend near Anchorage , Alaska .

The animal was 47 feet ( 14.3 meters ) long and female.

Fin whales are the second -largest whale species, and fully grown can reach up to 85 feet long.

The whaling industry killed nearly 725,000 fin whales in the mid-1900 's.

North is Freedom: Descendants of Freedom Seekers on the Underground Railroad opens Thursday at Art Windsor-Essex .

Approximately 30,000 men, women and children fled north to freedom, settling in Windsor, Chatham , Buxton , the Niagara Peninsula , Owen Sound and Toronto .

The Christian Heritage Month initiative is hosting a sold-out Christmas event at Toronto 's city hall.

Last week , councillors debated honouring Christianity in December .

Organizer Molly Banerjei says she hopes the event can be the beginning of a new relationship between city officials and Toronto 's Christian community.

She says Christians have 2,000 years of history of doing so much good.

McDonald's is preparing 2025 value offerings in a bid to hang onto customers who are fed up with high costs at restaurants.

The company is working on a new "McValue" approach for next year that involves keeping a $ 5 value meal offer on the menu for the first half of the year .

While franchisees are still voting on the value offerings, the initiative looks likely to pass, two people familiar said.