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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.
Washington DC (UPI) Feb 4, 2025 - El Salvador has agreed to take deportees from the United States and violent criminals from U.S. prisons in an extraordinary migratory agreement. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the deal Monday following a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in Central America.
Feb 4, 2025
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 04, 2025 - Mining ocean resources needed for electric cars and other devices is currently a hot issue of dispute. Final resolution of how or whether the seabed should be exploited is pending. Outcomes in this
Feb 4, 2025
Los Angeles, United States (AFP) Feb 4, 2025 - Donald Trump's demand for billions of gallons (liters) of water to be released in California, in what he said was a move to help combat fires in Los Angeles, was wasteful and pointless, experts say.
Feb 4, 2025
Fort Collins, CO (SPX) Feb 04, 2025 - A new international study highlights the severity of climate change impacts across African mountains, how farmers are adapting, and the barriers they face - findings relevant to people living in mou
Feb 4, 2025
Sydney (AFP) Feb 4, 2025 - Australia said Wednesday it is concerned for the health of jailed Chinese-Australian dissident writer Yang Jun, who was handed a suspended death sentence a year ago by a Beijing court.
Feb 4, 2025
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 04, 2025 - Early earthquake detection could be markedly improved by using the planet's sprawling fibre optic infrastructure, thanks to a newly presented algorithm. Researchers propose that existing communicati
Feb 4, 2025
San Francisco (AFP) Feb 4, 2025 - As Elon Musk and his aides take control of the US Treasury's payments system, the drastic job cuts and other shake-ups he instituted on buying Twitter may offer a preview of what government workers can expect.
Feb 4, 2025
Santorini, Greece (AFP) Feb 4, 2025 - Thousands of people fled the Greek island of Santorini by sea and air for a third day on Tuesday, as more earthquakes shook the top travel destination.
Feb 4, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2025 - Over a five-year span, the Greenland ice sheet gained 930 million cubic meters of new crevasses, an amount comparable to inserting a Great Pyramid of Giza-sized fracture into the planet's second lar
Feb 4, 2025
Washington (AFP) Feb 4, 2025 - Holding long-term global warming to two degrees Celsius - the fallback target of the Paris climate accord - is now impossible, according to a stark new analysis published by leading scientists.
Feb 4, 2025
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 04, 2025 - A new study has concluded that preventing the extinction of 99 priority Australian species calls for about $15.6 billion every year over a 30-year period. Researchers from Griffith University's Cent
Feb 4, 2025
Bordeaux (AFP) Feb 4, 2025 - Cognac sales to China dropped 24 percent in value last year after Beijing imposed tariffs on EU brandy imports amid trade tensions with the European Union, an industry body said Tuesday.
Feb 4, 2025
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 04, 2025 - A comprehensive examination of a Greenland glacier's velocity reveals how different environmental factors combine to influence its daily movement. Although the term 'glacial' usually implies a
Feb 4, 2025
Paris (AFP) Feb 4, 2025 - Air pollution is fuelling a rise in the commonest form of lung cancer among non-smokers, hitting women and people in southeast Asia particularly hard, according to a study published on Tuesday.
Feb 4, 2025
Sydney (AFP) Feb 4, 2025 - Mud-brown floodwaters have swamped scores of homes and caused incredible damage in eastern Australia, authorities said Tuesday, warning of a long-haul recovery ahead.
Feb 4, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2025 - A research group led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick expert has determined that water did not show up as early in Earth's assembly as once assumed. Their conclusion, drawn from an analysis of ancient roc
Feb 4, 2025
