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Environmental crime used to be treated as a niche concern, a worry for park rangers, customs officers and a handful of conservation lawyers. Not anymore. From Vienna to Belém, a once technical debate about “crimes that affect the environment” is…
ARAÇUAÍ & BELÉM, Brazil — When Aécio Luiz was younger, finding wild beehives was routine in his rural Afro-Brazilian community of Córrego Narciso. A farmer turned beekeeper, he recalls their buzzing was easy to spot when he worked around his…
At the Oxford farming conference there were signs the government has much to do to win back farmers’ trust Few symbols were more potent than the wooden coffin bearing the inscription “RIP British agriculture, 30th October 2024” that greeted Labour’s…
Less than a day after arriving at the ice, we are already up close and personal with the fastest-melting glacier in Antarctica.
After facing sustained pushback from environmental groups, Ghana revoked a 2022 law that had empowered the president to allow mining in the country’s forest reserves. In December, the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, introduced in Parliament…
NASA/Joel Kowsky Artemis II crewmembers (left to right) NASA astronauts Christina Koch, mission specialist; and Victor Glover, pilot; CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist; and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, commander are led by Bill Owens of the…
What rare earths have been found in Greenland, and why do we want them?
President Trump’s withdrawal of the U.S. from the global fight against climate change has gone further than almost anyone expected. During the first year of his second term in office, the president and his administration have cut foreign aid for…
Citizen scientists help in University of Bonn study showing river carries up to 4,700 tonnes of ‘macrolitter’ annually Thousands of tonnes of litter is pouring into the North Sea via the Rhine every year, poisoning the waters with heavy metals,…
Antonio Viudez-Mora Senior Research Scientist, Contractor, Climate Science Branch, Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center About Antonio Viudez-Mora earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from the School of Physics at the Universitat de Valencia (Spain), supplemented by postgraduate studies. After…