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The Terra Daily Editorial Team produces Terra Daily's coverage of Earth science and the environment. We report on climate, natural disasters, agriculture, oceans and water, earth observation, and the research shaping how we understand a changing planet. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Terra Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.
Dhaka (AFP) Nov 21, 2025 - A powerful earthquake struck Bangladesh on Friday outside the crowded capital Dhaka, killing at least three people and injuring many others, health officials said.
Nov 21, 2025
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Nov 21, 2025 - Greenpeace called for an investigation on Friday to determine what had caused a river in Malaysia near now-suspended rare earths and tin mines to turn bright blue.
Nov 21, 2025
Taipei (AFP) Nov 21, 2025 - Taipei resident Jay Tsai hopes he never needs the crisis guide Taiwan is handing out to millions of households across the island, which faces threats of natural disasters and a Chinese invasion.
Nov 21, 2025
Cairo (AFP) Nov 20, 2025 - The war in Sudan is increasingly being fought on the battlefield of social media, where competing factions trade fake news, doctored videos and triumphalist propaganda, hardening divisions in a country already fractured by years of conflict, analysts warn.
Nov 20, 2025
Taipei (AFP) Nov 20, 2025 - Images of Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te holding a plate of sushi were posted on social media on Thursday in a show of support for Tokyo after reports that China will halt Japanese seafood imports.
Nov 20, 2025
Hong Kong (AFP) Nov 20, 2025 - Hong Kong charged four people on Thursday over social media posts telling others not to vote in an upcoming election, while city officials pressed on with a publicity drive to boost turnout.
Nov 20, 2025
Corvallis OR (SPX) Nov 20, 2025 - Climate history recorded in a calcite deposit in a southern Nevada cave indicates that the hot, arid southwestern United States experienced significant shifts in temperature and rainfall over the la
Nov 20, 2025
Belem, Brazil (AFP) Nov 20, 2025 - Australia has conceded defeat in a bruising diplomatic struggle over hosting rights to next year's UN climate summit, with Turkey prevailing despite holding a much weaker hand.
Nov 20, 2025
Tehran Nov 20, 2025 - Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Thursday that the country's capital should be relocated away from Tehran because of overcrowding and a deepening water crisis.
Nov 20, 2025
New Brunswick, NJ (SPX) Nov 20, 2025 - For decades, scientists have been baffled by two enormous, enigmatic structures buried deep inside Earth with features so vast and unusual that they defy conventional models of planetary evolution.
Nov 20, 2025
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Nov 20, 2025 - The European Commission said Thursday it wants to exclude companies involved in fossil fuels from financial products marketed as sustainable in the EU, a step long demanded by environmental groups and experts.
Nov 20, 2025
Jakarta (AFP) Nov 20, 2025 - Hundreds of Indonesians stayed in temporary shelters Thursday after a volcano on the main island of Java erupted, damaging houses and a school, with around 190 people evacuated from its slopes, authorities said.
Nov 20, 2025
Villavicencio, Colombia (AFP) Nov 20, 2025 - At a morgue in central Colombia, a young woman mourned her brother, a 16-year-old who was kidnapped by guerrillas and killed in a government bombing last week, she said.
Nov 20, 2025
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 20, 2025 - Some 2.3 to 2.4 billion years ago, Earth underwent a monumental transformation that forever altered the planet's course. Cyanobacteria evolved a new kind of photosynthesis that unleashed tremendous
Nov 20, 2025
Sydney (AFP) Nov 20, 2025 - Pacific islanders decried on Thursday a wasted chance to draw eyes to their climate troubles, after their bid to co-host next year's COP climate summit was brushed aside.
Nov 20, 2025
Fairbanks AK (SPX) Nov 19, 2025 - Instruments typically used to detect the ground motion of earthquakes can also be used to identify the type of aircraft flying far overhead, research by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists shows.
Nov 19, 2025
