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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.
Burns OR (SPX) Oct 29, 2024 - Oregon State University researchers have received a $1 million grant to study the impact of adding seaweed to the diets of beef cattle as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Recent resea
Oct 29, 2024
Cali, Colombia (AFP) Oct 28, 2024 - More than one in three species of trees are at risk of extinction worldwide, threatening life as we know it on Earth, according to a report published Monday.
Oct 28, 2024
Manila (AFP) Oct 28, 2024 - The Philippines raised a fresh weather alert on Monday, days more than 100 people were killed by the worst storm of the year.
Oct 28, 2024
Marseille (AFP) Oct 28, 2024 - Almost 600 people were trapped in southern France Monday after flooding damaged the bridge on the only road to a holiday village, with a local mayor saying authorities were working to evacuate them.
Oct 28, 2024
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 28, 2024 - The Arctic is currently warming at rates three to four times higher than the global average. However, new research indicates that a slower ocean current, known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning
Oct 28, 2024
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 28, 2024 - Mammals, including humans, are distinct for their upright posture, a characteristic that has been fundamental to their evolutionary success. However, the earliest mammalian ancestors bore a striking
Oct 28, 2024
Cali, Colombia (AFP) Oct 28, 2024 - The experts' assessment is clear: humans are the major threat to Earth's land, seas and all the living things they shelter, including ourselves.
Oct 28, 2024
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 28, 2024 - Japan's Mount Fuji remained snow-less as of Monday - the latest date that its majestic slopes have been bare since records began 130 years ago, the weather agency said.
Oct 28, 2024
Durres, Albania (AFP) Oct 28, 2024 - A ship carrying hundreds of tonnes of possibly toxic industrial waste returned to Albania's largest seaport of Durres on Monday, months after setting sail to dispose of the material in Thailand.
Oct 28, 2024
Oslo (AFP) Oct 28, 2024 - A group of scientists warned Monday of the greatly underestimated risk of a collapse of ocean currents in the Atlantic which could have catastrophic consequences for the Nordic countries as the region's leaders gathered in Iceland.
Oct 28, 2024
Cali, Colombia (AFP) Oct 28, 2024 - The Western European hedgehog - the prickly, nocturnal critter people love to encounter in the garden - is in decline, mowed down by cars as its shrinking habitat forces it to move ever closer to humans.
Oct 28, 2024
Lokoja, Nigeria (AFP) Oct 28, 2024 - Every rainy season for the past 12 years, floods have swept through 67-year-old Idris Egbunu's house in central Nigeria.
Oct 28, 2024
Washington (AFP) Oct 28, 2024 - Drill, baby, drill versus championing green energy: Donald Trump and Kamala Harris offer starkly opposing visions on climate, with the outcome of the US presidential race poised to shape the planet's warming trajectory.
Oct 28, 2024
San Salvador (AFP) Oct 28, 2024 - Around 2,500 soldiers and police surrounded a neighborhood on the outskirts of El Salvador's capital Monday for a high-profile operation as part of President Nayib Bukele's crackdown on gangs.
Oct 28, 2024
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 28, 2024 - Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba vowed Monday to stay in office despite his gamble of snap elections backfiring, with his party's ruling coalition falling short of a majority for the first time since 2009.
Oct 28, 2024
Cali, Colombia (AFP) Oct 28, 2024 - The world's biggest nature protection conference, under way in Cali, has placed biodiversity loss on an equal footing with the climate emergency, the meeting's Colombian president told AFP in an interview Monday.
Oct 28, 2024
