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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.
Sedavi, Spain (AFP) Oct 31, 2024 - Rescuers raced Thursday to find survivors and victims of once-in-a-generation floods in Spain that killed at least 95 people and left towns submerged in a muddy deluge with overturned cars scattered in the streets.
Oct 31, 2024
Cali, Colombia (AFP) Oct 31, 2024 - European officials pointed Thursday to devastating flooding in Spain as a reminder of the self-harming effects of humans' destruction of nature, urging delegates at a deadlocked UN biodiversity conference in Colombia to act.
Oct 31, 2024
Hanoi (AFP) Oct 31, 2024 - Flash flooding in central Vietnam killed five people, damaged hundreds of homes and destroyed crops, disaster authorities said Thursday, after Tropical Storm Trami dumped heavy rain across the country.
Oct 31, 2024
Valencia, Spain (AFP) Oct 31, 2024 - Spain mourned at least 158 deaths on Thursday and authorities told people in flood-stricken regions to stay at home as rescuers raced to find survivors in the rare disaster.
Oct 31, 2024
Geneva (AFP) Oct 31, 2024 - The UN rapporteur on environmental defenders on Thursday urged Azerbaijan to free Anar Mammadli, saying his detention seemed aimed at silencing climate advocates ahead of November's COP29 summit.
Oct 31, 2024
Keelung, Taiwan (AFP) Oct 31, 2024 - Super Typhoon Kong-rey made landfall in Taiwan on Thursday as one of the most powerful storms to hit the island in years, whipping up 10-metre waves and forcing thousands of people to flee their homes.
Oct 31, 2024
Montreal (AFP) Oct 31, 2024 - South Africa and the Vatican joined Qatar at a conference in Montreal on Thursday in offering to mediate and facilitate the return of about 20,000 Ukrainian children from Russia.
Oct 31, 2024
Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Oct 31, 2024 - Australian researchers have unveiled a novel satellite-based method to detect plastic waste on beaches, demonstrating the tool's capabilities in a remote region. The new technology, developed by sci
Oct 31, 2024
Keelung, Taiwan (AFP) Oct 31, 2024 - Super Typhoon Kong-rey made landfall in Taiwan on Thursday as one of the biggest storms to hit the island in decades, whipping up 10-metre waves, triggering floods and claiming at least one life.
Oct 31, 2024
Fujikawaguchi (AFP) Oct 31, 2024 - Japan's Mount Fuji, snowless for the longest since records began 130 years ago, is expected to finally get its famous white cap back next week, a local forecaster said on Thursday.
Oct 31, 2024
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2024 - An international team of geoscientists, led by Rutgers University-New Brunswick, has revealed that ancient volcanic regions continued emitting carbon dioxide (CO2) from Earth's deep magma long after
Oct 31, 2024
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 30, 2024 - There is power in numbers, or so the saying goes. But in the ocean, scientists are finding that fish that group together don't necessarily survive together. In some cases, the more fish there are, t
Oct 30, 2024
Paris (AFP) Oct 30, 2024 - Climate change poses a growing threat to human health in a variety of record-breaking ways, a major report said Wednesday, the experts warning that wasted time has been paid in lives.
Oct 30, 2024
Cali, Colombia (AFP) Oct 30, 2024 - The Caribbean US territory of Puerto Rico, likened to a floating island of garbage at a Republican rally in New York, on Wednesday announced the creation of a new marine reserve to protect manatees and other species.
Oct 30, 2024
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2024 - Researchers at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) recently participated in an international study of fragments from asteroid 162173 Ryugu, collected by a Japanese space mission. The APS, a light sourc
Oct 30, 2024
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2024 - A new study, co-authored by NASA scientists, details where and how greenhouse gases are escaping from the Earth's vast northern permafrost region as the Arctic warms. The frozen soils encircling the
Oct 30, 2024
