Environment news API
Ecology, pollution, conservation and resource management. Pass topic=WB_566_ENVIRONMENT_AND_NATURAL_RESOURCES to filter.
What this covers
Environmental conditions, pollution and remediation, conservation policy and resource management. Overlaps substantially with energy and agriculture coverage, which is a property of the subject rather than a tagging problem.
Querying it
Combine with the climate or environment signal and a country filter. Coverage is heavily policy-weighted in English and more operational in the domestic press of affected regions.
GET /stories?topic=WB_566_ENVIRONMENT_AND_NATURAL_RESOURCES&mode=hybrid&from=2026-07-24&limit=20What catches people out
Environmental coverage responds to policy announcements and to visible events, not to underlying conditions. Long-running degradation generates almost no coverage until a threshold is crossed, so absence of coverage carries very little information.
Who publishes on it
Environmental desks at national outlets, science press, NGO-adjacent publications and regional papers where conditions are visible. Policy coverage is heavily concentrated in English; condition reporting is local-language and much more specific.
What it is best for
Best for tracking policy processes and visible events such as pollution incidents. Weakest for gradual change, which generates essentially no coverage until a threshold is crossed, making absence of coverage almost uninformative.
Monitoring it over time
Because coverage is event-triggered rather than condition-tracking, a monitoring setup built on this topic will be quiet for long periods and then saturate. Plan for both states. Local-language reporting describes conditions concretely; English-language coverage argues about them, and mistaking the second for the first is the usual error.
Signals that pair with it
Topic filtering answers what an article is about. Signals answer how strongly it reads that way and in what register, so combining them is usually sharper than either alone.
signal_environmentsignal_climatesignal_energy
GET /search?topic=WB_566_ENVIRONMENT_AND_NATURAL_RESOURCES&signal=signal_environment&signal_min=0.25Recent coverage
From the index on 2026-07-31, in the language each was published in.
Who covers it
haberler.com · cna.com.tw · merkur.de · birgun.net · sudouest.fr · tribunnews.com · setn.com · mersinhaber.com · haberradikal.com · ensonhaber.com · ltn.com.tw · inewsgr.com
Counts are provisional pending a snapshot against the API.