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Flat-headed cats (Prionailurus planiceps), named after their flattened foreheads, live in fragmented pockets across Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia, but they were feared extinct in Thailand.

but richer nations including the US and EU relied more than before on planet-warming fossil fuels for electricity generation. [...] Coal, a major contributor to global warming, was still the world's largest individual source of energy generation [...] Despite these regional differences, Ember calls this moment a "crucial turning point".

The global High Seas Treaty, decades in the making, will become international law. It aims to create vast maritime conservation areas. [...] The High Seas Treaty, as it is known, was ratified by a 60th nation, Morocco, crossing the threshold for United Nations treaties to go into effect. Two decades in the making, it allows for the establishment of enormous conservation zones in international waters.