Editorial Team
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.
Tokyo (AFP) Mar 14, 2025 - Rules for the emerging deep-sea mining sector should take a precautionary approach that protects the environment, the head of the body drafting regulations for the practice told AFP Friday.
Mar 14, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 14, 2025 - As climate change accelerates, the Antarctic ice sheet continues to shrink, contributing to rising sea levels worldwide. Holding enough frozen water to raise sea levels by approximately 190 feet, un
Mar 14, 2025
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Mar 14, 2025 - EU countries agreed to push forward with plans to ease current restrictions on some gene-edited crops - a move backed by farmer groups but opposed by environmentalists.
Mar 14, 2025
Ithica NY (SPX) Mar 14, 2025 - Climate change and flagging investment in research and development has U.S. agriculture facing its first productivity slowdown in decades. A new study estimates the public sector investment needed t
Mar 14, 2025
Panama City (AFP) Mar 14, 2025 - The Canadian-owned operator of Central America's biggest copper mine on Friday signaled that it was ready to suspend multibillion-dollar arbitration proceedings against Panama over its closure.
Mar 14, 2025
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 14, 2025 - Across the street from the Flamingo Visitor's Center at the foot of Florida's Everglades National Park, there was once a thriving mangrove population - part of the largest stand of mangroves in the
Mar 14, 2025
Sydney (AFP) Mar 14, 2025 - An American influencer who outraged Australians by snatching a baby wombat from its apparently distressed mother flew out of the country Friday, the government said.
Mar 14, 2025
Tokyo (AFP) Mar 14, 2025 - The ocean covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but scientists say we have barely scratched the surface of what lives in our seas.
Mar 14, 2025
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 14, 2025 - During a recent flyby of Mars, ESA's Hera mission for planetary defense utilized its scientific payload beyond Earth and the Moon for the first time. The spacecraft activated a suite of instruments
Mar 14, 2025
Colombo (AFP) Mar 14, 2025 - Sri Lanka's wildlife and railway authorities announced on Friday a series of low-tech measures, including adjusting timetables to reduce night-time train collisions, following the worst wildlife accident that killed seven elephants.
Mar 14, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 14, 2025 - Taiwan must implement proactive measures to thwart China's use of its democracy against it, said President Lai Ching-te amid increased efforts by Beijing to undermine the sovereignty of the self-government island.
Mar 14, 2025
Berlin (AFP) Mar 13, 2025 - Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel denied Thursday that she had covered up an intelligence report concluding that a Chinese laboratory leak was the likely source of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mar 13, 2025
Tokyo (AFP) Mar 13, 2025 - Rules on deep-sea mining in international waters must be driven by sound science and built on consensus, the head of the body charged with regulating the divisive practice said Thursday.
Mar 13, 2025
Kharkhorin, Mongolia (AFP) Mar 13, 2025 - Over a year after a devastating winter wiped out virtually his entire sheep flock, herder Zandan Lkhamsuren is still reckoning with the damage wrought by Mongolia's increasingly erratic extreme weather.
Mar 13, 2025
Cape Town (AFP) Mar 13, 2025 - The European Union and South Africa vowed to deepen cooperation at a summit on Thursday as both grapple with aid and trade threats from the new US administration.
Mar 13, 2025
Madrid (AFP) Mar 13, 2025 - Spain, which is nearing the end of a years-long drought, can expect such dry spells to become increasingly frequent and severe due to global warming, according to a scientific report published Thursday.
Mar 13, 2025
