Elk, bear, frogs and other animals have used the overpass, which connects 39,000 acres of habitat, since its completion

Colorado officials have tracked herds of elk, bears, pronghorn and even northern leopard frogs ambling across its new wildlife overpass. According to a newly released report, the overpass, which acts as a bridge over a busy stretch of interstate, has helped cut wildlife-vehicle collisions by 91% since its completion 10 months ago.

The overpass is the centerpiece of a larger system built by the state to assist wildlife crossing the highway, which also includes miles of 8-ft tall fencing and five large wildlife underpasses.

O Tribunal da Relação de Guimarães confirmou a pena de 18 anos e seis meses de prisão aplicada, em maio passado, na primeira instância, ao pedreiro que, a 09 de fevereiro de 2025, matou a tiro um homem, de 35 anos, filho de um empreiteiro de Guimarães, num café na vila de Arões, em Fafe.

Joaquim Carneiro, de 71 anos, que foi ainda condenado a pagar 130 mil euros à família da vítima, recorreu da decisão do Tribunal de Guimarães contestando várias conclusões do coletivo de juízes e negando ter tido intenção de matar, por isso, não ter atuado por “motivo fútil”.

No entanto, os juízes-desembargadores não concordaram: “Motivo fútil é o que, avaliado segundo as conceções éticas e morais dominantes na comunidade, se revela de importância mínima, de tal modo desproporcionado relativamente à gravidade da reação homicida que o facto surge como produto de um profundo desprezo pelo valor da vida humana, devendo, por isso, ser considerado um motivo pesadamente repugnante, baixo ou gratuito”.

Desprezo pela vida humana

Recorde-se que o Tribunal de Guimarães considerou provado que o homicida atuou com intenção clara de matar Pedro Oliveira, demonstrando “absoluto desprezo pela vida humana”. E lamentou a ausência de arrependimento perante a família do jovem.

O acórdão baseou-se, sobretudo, na prova “segura e robusta” das testemunhas.

Segundo a acusação, o crime teve origem numa alegada dívida antiga relacionada com trabalhos realizados por Joaquim Carneiro ao pai da vítima, há cerca de 30 anos. Dívida essa que o pai de Pedro Oliveira, ouvido em tribunal na qualidade de assistente, negou existir, afirmando que todos os serviços tinham sido pagos.

O homicídio aconteceu no café Pérola Central, na vila de Arões, durante uma discussão em que o arguido chamou “caloteiro” ao pai da vítima, dizendo que lhe tinha ficado a dever “50 contos”.

Após Pedro Oliveira pedir que não utilizasse a expressão, Joaquim Carneiro disparou um tiro de pistola de calibre 6,35 mm a curta distância, atingindo-o no peito.

Depois do crime, o homicida, conhecido localmente por “Quim Pedreiro”, conseguiu escapar às autoridades durante toda a noite. Na manhã seguinte, apresentou-se no Serviço de Urgência do Hospital de Fafe acompanhado por um advogado, alegadamente com sinais de desorientação e comportamento alterado.

A vítima foi encontrada pelos socorristas caída, na via pública, com sangramento profuso pela boca, em paragem cardiorrespiratória, sendo realizadas manobras de reanimação por cerca de 30 minutos.

O conteúdo Fafe: 18 anos de cadeia para pedreiro que matou homem em café por “50 contos” aparece primeiro em O MINHO.

As Cop17 kicks off, records since 1921 show more bee species declining than increasing in all parts of Europe except the Alps

Most of Europe’s wild bee species and about half of its hover fly species have declined over the last century, a study has found, as a UN biodiversity summit begins in Armenia.

Records since 1921 show more bee species are declining than increasing in all parts of Europe except the Alpine region. The richness of bee and hover fly species suffered a persistent drop in the Atlantic and Continental regions, the study found, though trends in other regions were mixed or even positive.

As Cop17 kicks off, records since 1921 show more bee species declining than increasing in all parts of Europe except the Alps

Most of Europe’s wild bee species and about half of its hover fly species have declined over the last century, a study has found, as a UN biodiversity summit begins in Armenia.

Records since 1921 show more bee species are declining than increasing in all parts of Europe except the Alpine region. The richness of bee and hover fly species suffered a persistent drop in the Atlantic and Continental regions, the study found, though trends in other regions were mixed or even positive.

• France's cost-of-living protests descended into violence and looting over the weekend.
• Hundreds of thousands demonstrated amid growing anger over the cost of living and public services.
• From soaring energy prices to declining incomes, five figures help explain the unrest.

France's growing anger over the cost of living erupted into scenes of looting and violence over the weekend.

While most of the hundreds of thousands of people who demonstrated across the country did so peacefully, clashes broke out between police and some protesters, with officers firing tear gas.

The unrest began as student protests over worsening school conditions, but has since grown into a broader movement fueled by frustration over the unaffordability of life in France.

The financial pressures facing French households are familiar to Americans: surging energy prices, wages struggling to keep pace with inflation, and the difficulty of making ends meet.

Here are four numbers that help explain the financial frustrations driving the protests.

1. The poverty rate is at a 30-year high

INSEE defines monetary poverty as having a standard of living below 60% of the national median, adjusted for household size. In 2024, that threshold was €1,337 a month for someone living alone.

France's monetary poverty rate stood at 15.4% in 2024, its highest level since annual records began in 1996, according to INSEE data published in July. The figures are the latest available because calculating poverty rates requires detailed tax and benefits records, which take time to compile and analyze.

That means around 9.8 million people in mainland France were living below the poverty line.

2. Energy prices are up more than 60% since 2015

It's not just Americans who are grappling with rising energy costs.

Energy prices in France increased by more than 60% between 2015 and the first half of 2026, according to INSEE. Electricity prices rose 43% over that period, while fuel prices were 31% higher at the end of 2025 than in 2015.

As with much of the world, the war in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz crisis sent fuel prices soaring. By April 2026, fuel prices in France were 30% higher than at the end of 2025, per the INSEE report.

Rising fuel costs were behind French protests in September, and members of that movement have joined students and trade unions in the riots over the past week.

3. Nearly 3 in 10 French people can't afford unexpected expenses

Data from Eurostat, the European Union's statistics agency, shows that 28.8% of people in France lived in households that couldn't afford an unexpected expense without borrowing or seeking financial help in 2025.

France isn't particularly unusual in the wider European context — the EU average was also around 29% — but the figures illustrate the financial insecurity facing almost a third of households as people protest over the cost of living.

4. More than 40% of French people experienced some difficulty making ends meet

More than four in 10 people in France (41.1%) lived in households that reported at least some difficulty making ends meet in 2025, according to Eurostat data.

Of those, 19.4% reported some difficulty, 13.7% reported difficulty, and 8% reported great difficulty, highlighting the widespread financial strain facing French households.

Dutch MEP says government is trying to avoid EU environmental rules as protests over luxury development turn violent

MEPs have accused Albania of deploying “sneaky” practices to fast-track a proposed Trump-linked luxury resort in the country amid protests that have turned increasingly violent.

As the prime minister, Edi Rama, pledged to “listen to the voices of young people” taking to the streets, there was mounting criticism of his failure to address demonstrators who had long opposed the controversial project peacefully.

Dutch MEP says government is trying to avoid EU environmental rules as protests over luxury development turn violent

MEPs have accused Albania of deploying “sneaky” practices to fast-track a proposed Trump-linked luxury resort in the country amid protests that have turned increasingly violent.

As the prime minister, Edi Rama, pledged to “listen to the voices of young people” taking to the streets, there was mounting criticism of his failure to address demonstrators who had long opposed the controversial project peacefully.

Uma mulher, de 67 anos, foi atropelada na Avenida do Brasil, na cidade de Fafe, na manhã desta segunda-feira.

Ao que O MINHO apurou no local, o atropelamento deu-se junto a uma passadeira. Segundo a própria vítima, esta estaria na passadeira, versão que não é corroborada pelo condutor.

A mulher sofreu ferimentos ligeiros e foi transportada para o Hospital de Guimarães.

Os Bombeiros de Fafe prestaram socorro e a GNR registou a ocorrência.

Já esta manhã, como O MINHO noticiou, uma outra mulher, de 54 anos, foi atropelada na freguesia de Medelo, também no concelho de Fafe, tendo sofrido, igualmente, ferimentos ligeiros.

O conteúdo Mulher atropelada em Fafe (é a segunda nesta manhã) aparece primeiro em O MINHO.

Four years ago nearly every government on Earth agreed to protect nature. Now, as countries gather for Cop17, the pressure is on to follow through on those commitments

• Cop17 at a glance: everything you need to know about the UN’s nature summit

Passersby could smell the dead fish before they saw them. In August, more than 3,000 pike, roach, carp and rudd were found lifeless along the River Wensum in Norwich. Some gasped for air in their final moments, desperate for the oxygen that heatwave conditions had depleted in the water. Investigators believe that the die-off was triggered by heavy rainfall that flushed through high concentrations of pollution at a time when wildlife were already struggling.

The 45-mile (70km) chalk river is one of about 250 in the country. They are a geological accident almost unique to Britain – and one of Earth’s rarest habitats. They emerge from chalk aquifers and are home to species such as freshwater shrimp, otters and stoneflies, also providing drinking water for millions of people. But just 11 have formal protection, with many ravaged by sewage pollution and overextraction. The Norfolk river is one of the few that does have legal protection, but it is in poor ecological health.

Uma mulher, de 54 anos, foi atropelada por um automóvel, na rua Nova, freguesia de Medelo, Fafe, na manhã desta segunda-feira.

Ao que O MINHO apurou, a vítima foi transportada para o Hospital de Guimarães com suspeita de fratura, sendo considerada ferida ligeira.

Os Bombeiros Voluntários de Fafe prestaram socorro.

A GNR registou a ocorrência.

O conteúdo Mulher atropelada em Fafe aparece primeiro em O MINHO.

This month’s biodiversity summit in Yerevan, Armenia, aims to push governments to meet the 23 targets agreed at Cop15 in 2022

• Can countries deliver on a deal to save the world’s plants and animals?

This month, nearly every country on Earth will return to the question of how to stem the rapid destruction of the natural world. Humans are driving it, but so far we have not found a way to stop it.

In late 2022, governments reached an ambitious once-in-a-decade deal to better protect nature amid scientific warnings that the planet is going through the largest loss of life since the extinction of the dinosaurs. Now, they are assessing their progress on the targets for the first time.