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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.
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 25, 2025 - Thanks to more than a decade of satellite measurements, scientists have uncovered 85 previously unknown subglacial lakes deep below Antarctica, dramatically expanding knowledge of the continent's hi
Sep 25, 2025
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 25, 2025 - Earth scientists at ETH Zurich have identified a natural archive of primordial ocean chemistry: tiny egg-shaped iron oxide stones known as ooids. These mineral grains, formed like rolling snowballs
Sep 25, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 25, 2025 - An international team led by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has introduced a new concept called Earth system engineering to better understand how organisms, including humans, have reshaped plane
Sep 25, 2025
London, Canada (SPX) Sep 25, 2025 - A large international collaboration of nearly 100 researchers, led by Western adjunct professor Auriane Egal, has completed the first-ever comprehensive study of an asteroid tracked from space throu
Sep 25, 2025
London, UK (SPX) Sep 25, 2025 - New research has confirmed that the Silverpit Crater, buried beneath the southern North Sea, was created by a hypervelocity impact about 43 to 46 million years ago. The findings resolve a long-runni
Sep 25, 2025
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 25, 2025 - A Japanese-led research team has provided the first direct measurement of the spatial scale of chemical heterogeneity in the Earth's upper mantle, revealing that mantle plume-driven variability exte
Sep 25, 2025
Paris (AFP) Sept 24, 2025 - An influential consumer rights association on Wednesday urged a court to ban the sale of Perrier bottled water in France, saying the brand's claim that its product is natural was misleading.
Sep 24, 2025
San Salvador Sept 24, 2025 - A court in El Salvador on Wednesday acquitted eight former guerrillas, including five anti-mining campaigners, of a civil war-era murder in a trial criticized by NGOs as politicized.
Sep 24, 2025
Hualien, Taiwan (AFP) Sept 24, 2025 - At least 17 people were killed when a decades-old barrier lake burst in Taiwan, government officials said Wednesday, after Super Typhoon Ragasa pounded the island with torrential rain.
Sep 24, 2025
New York (AFP) Sept 24, 2025 - US President Donald Trump may dismiss climate change as a con job - but for the leader of tiny St. Kitts and Nevis, its toll is unmistakable: land swallowed, homes battered, and livelihoods threatened.
Sep 24, 2025
Lahore, Pakistan Sept 24, 2025 - Abdullah Abbas waded through Lahore's flooded streets, struggling to push his motorcycle and deliver a food order on time.
Sep 24, 2025
Algiers (AFP) Sept 24, 2025 - Algerian military forces have killed six militants in an operation targeting terrorists in the country's east, the defence ministry said on Wednesday.
Sep 24, 2025
Colombo (AFP) Sept 24, 2025 - A Singapore-registered ship's Sri Lanka agent paid $1 million out of $1 billion damages awarded for causing the island's worst pollution, a litigant told AFP Wednesday.
Sep 24, 2025
Paris (AFP) Sept 24, 2025 - Humans are gambling the very stability of Earth's life support systems, scientists said Wednesday, warning that ocean acidity was yet another key planetary threshold to be breached.
Sep 24, 2025
Victoria, Seychelles (AFP) Sept 24, 2025 - Citizens in the beach paradise of Seychelles vote this week in tightly fought elections amid concerns over a Qatari hotel complex being built near a world-renowned marine reserve.
Sep 24, 2025
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Sept 23, 2025 - The European Union will seek to postpone by another year the implementation of a sweeping anti-deforestation law opposed by some businesses and trading partners, the bloc's environment chief said Tuesday.
Sep 23, 2025
