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Terra Daily Editorial Team

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.

Legacy Reports

The Cosmic Catastrophe Survival Strategy

- Human continuance is based on mankind's evolution, which has obviously been a result of successful cosmic and biological evolution resulting in successful adaptations, reproduction, and the ability to disperse humans around and off the Earth. To insure survival, human reproduction is essential so that successful characteristics will pass to future generations. To bring this about, mankind's reproductive drives are internal and powerful, because they significantly insure survival of the species. Consequently, it might seem to follow that if there is meaning for human life, as with life in general, it might be found in successful adaptation, dispersion, and reproduction.

Jun 26, 2026

Ice World

The Antarctic Ocean has increased its absorption of CO2

Washington (AFP) Sept 11, 2015 - Defying earlier fears, the Antarctic Ocean has been absorbing increasing amounts of carbon dioxide over the past decade, researchers reported Thursday.

Jun 26, 2026

Del.icio.us

That sinking feeling: world’s deltas subsiding, says study

Paris (AFP) Sept 20, 2009 - Two-thirds of the world's major deltas, home to nearly half a billion people, are caught in the scissors of sinking land and rising seas, according to a study published Sunday.

Jun 26, 2026

Froth And Bubble

Thailand totters towards waste crisis

Bangkok (AFP) Sept 01, 2014 - A blaze at a vast rubbish dump home to six million tonnes of putrefying trash and toxic effluent has kindled fears that poor planning and lax law enforcement are tipping Thailand towards a waste crisis.

Jun 26, 2026

Farm News

Thailand urged to halt crop burning after air pollution spike

Bangkok (AFP) Sept 18, 2023 - Thailand must ban stubble burning by farmers to improve air quality, the head of a leading agricultural body said Monday, after a spike in dangerous pollution left millions needing medical treatment.

Jun 26, 2026

Del.icio.us

Thailand and China to launch monsoon study

Bangkok (AFP) Sept 23, 2008 - Thailand and China will sign an agreement this week to launch a three-year study of climatic changes in the Andaman Sea so they can better predict monsoon patterns, an official said Tuesday.

Jun 26, 2026

Froth And Bubble

Thai villagers voice health fears over industrial pollution

Bangkok (AFP) Sept 5, 2010 - Noi Jaitang's voice is laced with bitter helplessness as he faces the reality that his rural Thai village could once again be engulfed with fumes he blames for a litany of family illnesses.

Jun 26, 2026

Shake and Blow

Thai troops mobilised to help flood victims

Bangkok (AFP) Sept 30, 2011 - Thailand deployed about 10,000 soldiers on Friday to help victims of floods that have killed 188 people and left vast swathes of the country under water.

Jun 26, 2026

Del.icio.us

Thai rice region under climate threat: Greenpeace

Bangkok (AFP) Sept 21, 2009 - Part of Thailand's main rice growing region is under severe economic and environmental threat from climate change which must be addressed by world leaders at a UN summit, Greenpeace said Monday.

Jun 26, 2026

Flora and Fauna

Thai police seize nearly 200 pangolins

Bangkok (AFP) Sept 17, 2013 - Thai police Tuesday said they had seized almost 200 live protected pangolins, which are prized in China and Vietnam as an exotic meal and for use in traditional medicine.

Jun 26, 2026

Shake and Blow

Thai flood toll reaches 130: govt

Bangkok (AFP) Sept 21, 2011 - Almost two months of severe flooding in Thailand have left at least 130 people dead, the government said Wednesday as it stepped up efforts to protect the low-lying capital.

Jun 26, 2026

Farm News

Thai farm culls 125 crocodiles as floodwaters rise

Bangkok (AFP) Sept 25, 2024 - A crocodile farm in Thailand has culled 125 of the reptiles because of fears they could escape during ongoing floods and endanger human lives, the owner said Wednesday.

Jun 26, 2026

Epidemics

Texas on alert after brain-eating amoeba kills boy, 6

Houston (AFP) Sept 28, 2020 - The governor of Texas has issued a disaster declaration after the death of six-year-old boy infected with a brain-eating amoeba that was later found in his community's water supply.

Jun 26, 2026

Disaster Management

Texas governor appeals for aid for Harvey recovery

Houston (AFP) Sept 3, 2017 - The governor of Texas said Sunday that the long haul of recovery from Hurricane Harvey was just beginning, appealing to Congress to provide tens of billions of dollars needed for reconstruction.

Jun 26, 2026

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Texas girds for the worst as deadly Ike closes in

Houston, Texas (AFP) Sept 10, 2008 - Texas authorities ordered coastal evacuations Wednesday as deadly Hurricane Ike strengthened to a Category Two storm in the Gulf of Mexico and headed toward the southern US coast after ravaging Cuba and the Caribbean.

Jun 26, 2026

Disaster Management

Texas chemical plant area declared safe after controlled blaze

Houston (AFP) Sept 4, 2017 - A fire at a chemical plant in Crosby, Texas has been put out and authorities have lifted an evacuation order after declaring it safe, the company said in a statement Monday.

Jun 26, 2026