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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.
Belgrade (AFP) Nov 22, 2024 - Balkan countries faced traffic disruptions and electricity outages due to heavy snowstorms and winds on Friday.
Nov 22, 2024
Libreville (AFP) Nov 21, 2024 - The Congo Basin's tropical forests, known as the planet's second lung behind the Amazon, are shrinking by one to five percent a year due to illegal logging and mining, a study said.
Nov 21, 2024
Baku (AFP) Nov 21, 2024 - A fresh draft deal published Thursday at the deadlocked COP29 climate talks shows rich and poor countries still divided as time runs out to strike a finance agreement for developing nations.
Nov 21, 2024
Derna, Libya (AFP) Nov 21, 2024 - A year after a flash flood ripped through Derna and killed thousands of people, the coastal Libyan city is hosting a theatre festival with a message of hope.
Nov 21, 2024
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Nov 21, 2024 - The BIOCAL expedition, led by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), has unveiled critical evidence of the atlantification of th
Nov 21, 2024
Voi, Kenya (AFP) Nov 21, 2024 - We used to hate elephants a lot, Kenyan farmer Charity Mwangome says, pausing from her work under the shade of a baobab tree.
Nov 21, 2024
Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Nov 21, 2024 - Ukraine border guards on Thursday urged fans of a horror video game not to illegally enter the Chernobyl exclusion zone, saying dozens of people had been caught trespassing in the tightly controlled territory.
Nov 21, 2024
Abidjan (AFP) Nov 21, 2024 - Military-led Burkina Faso has frozen the assets and resources of more than 100 people, including ex-president Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, and two jihadist groups over the financing of terrorism, according to a decree sent to AFP Thursday.
Nov 21, 2024
Reykjavik (AFP) Nov 21, 2024 - A fishing village and tourist hot spot in southwest Iceland was evacuated late Wednesday after a volcano erupted in the region for the seventh time in a year, officials said.
Nov 21, 2024
Reykjavik (AFP) Nov 21, 2024 - Lava flowing from Iceland's latest volcanic eruption on Thursday engulfed the main parking lot of one of Iceland's biggest tourist attractions, the evacuated Blue Lagoon geothermal spa, images showed.
Nov 21, 2024
Zarnesti, Romania (AFP) Nov 21, 2024 - At a bear sanctuary in the heart of Romania's Carpathians, several cubs believed to have been orphaned have just arrived.
Nov 21, 2024
Helsinki (AFP) Nov 21, 2024 - Up to 80,000 households in Finland lost power on Thursday and traffic was disrupted as the country's first big snowstorm of the season brought strong winds, the Finnish Meteorological Institute told AFP.
Nov 21, 2024
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 21, 2024 - It will take six months to a year to analyse a tiny sample of radioactive debris retrieved by a robot from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator said Thursday.
Nov 21, 2024
Washington (AFP) Nov 21, 2024 - A group of chemical compounds used to disinfect water for one-third of the US population and millions of others globally produces a potentially toxic byproduct, according to new research published Thursday, sparking calls for an immediate investigation into possible health impacts.
Nov 21, 2024
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 21, 2024 - Bradley Doorn grew up in his family's trucking business, which hauled milk and animal feed across the sprawling plains of South Dakota. Home was Mitchell, a small town famous for its Corn Palace, wh
Nov 21, 2024
Baku (AFP) Nov 21, 2024 - The UN climate summit in Azerbaijan is scheduled to wrap up on Friday, yet it remains unclear how much money will be provided to developed countries to fight global warming - and who will pay for it.
Nov 21, 2024
