Land use planning: the positive case of Brazil | Chapter 4 of “A Perfect...
Regulating land tenure is not the only power available to the state for influencing how people use land. Land-use planning and land-use zoning are two closely related mechanisms that Pan Amazonian...
View ArticleFederal appeals court revokes Obama-era ban on coal leasing
A U.S. appeals court struck down a judge’s 2022 order that imposed a moratorium on coal leasing on federal lands. (Image credit: Matthew Brown) The post Federal appeals court revokes Obama-era ban on...
View ArticleHow AI is helping the search for extraterrestrial life
Published23 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Getty Images By Emma WoollacottBusiness reporter There are between 10 and 50 billion potentially habitable worlds...
View ArticleUK quits treaty that lets oil firms sue government
Published49 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Getty Images By Esme StallardClimate and science reporter, BBC News The UK has withdrawn from an international...
View ArticleActivists urge Australia to end lucrative links to Myanmar junta’s mines
Pro-democracy activists have urged the Australian government to crack down on domestic companies involved in Myanmar’s mines, saying these firms are funding human rights abuses and environmental...
View ArticleAmerican company aims for historic Moon landing
Published14 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Intuitive Machines By Jonathan AmosScience correspondent@BBCAmos Texan company Intuitive Machines (IM) will...
View ArticleAgrochemicals take a big toll on Global South, new Atlas of Pesticides shows
Brazil tops the list of the countries that import and consume the most pesticides in the world. At the end of 2023, Bill 1459/2022, known among environmentalists as the “Poison Bill,” was approved,...
View ArticleFrozen antimatter may reveal origins of Universe
Published23 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Cern By Pallab GhoshScience correspondent It’s extremely rare and usually exists for just 142 billionths of a...
View ArticleMegafires are spreading in the Amazon — and they are here to stay
“When I see the rainforest burning, I know what I’m really seeing is Amazonia dying. I see that fire and, as a scientist, I know how much that hectare will lose in terms of individual lives, how much...
View ArticleHong Kong as a reef fish haven? These scientists want to get the word out
Kamy Yeung said she wanted to do more scuba diving. So in 2014, she signed up to be a volunteer diver for a newly launched reef fish survey project in Hong Kong. The experience changed everything she...
View ArticleColombia adds hundreds of species to list of threatened flora and fauna
The number of threatened species in Colombia is much higher than previously thought, after officials carried out a study to reevaluate the state of the country’s flora and fauna. The Ministry of...
View ArticleUS spacecraft completes Moon landing mission
Intuitive Machine’s target is at 80 degrees South, a mere 300km from the south pole proper. If the mission gets down safely it will be the southernmost landing yet executed. The Indian space agency...
View ArticleAmerican company makes historic Moon landing
Published10 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Intuitive Machines By Jonathan AmosScience correspondent@BBCAmos An American company has made history by becoming...
View ArticleFossil reveals 240 million year-old 'dragon'
Published32 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, NATIONAL MUSEUMS SCOTLAND By Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC News Scientists have revealed a new,...
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A geothermal energy boom could be coming to Chicago’s South Side
Naomi Davis won’t lose her faith in the earth. At a recent community meeting in Chicago’s South Side she wanted to drive the point home — that the city’s Black community will not be left out of the...
View ArticleNew funding boosts AI-enabled wildlife identification project in Australia
In 2019, the conservation nonprofit Australian Wildlife Conservancy started developing an artificial intelligence model to identify animals in camera-trap images. Since then, despite limited funding...
View ArticleAstronomers crack 37-year cosmic 'murder mystery'
Published22 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, NASA By Pallab GhoshScience correspondent Scientists say they have solved the mystery of what lies at the heart of...
View ArticleSummit on migratory species sides with science, throws shade on deep-sea mining
Migratory species that travel long distances in the ocean, including sharks, turtles and dolphins, face an unprecedented number of threats resulting from human actions. At the latest assembly of the...
View ArticleOdysseus Moon lander 'tipped over on touchdown'
Published44 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, NASA By Jonathan AmosScience correspondent@BBCAmos The Odysseus Moon lander is likely lying on its side with its...
View ArticleTo reverse deforestation and protect biodiversity, build a bioeconomy in the...
Teaming with tropical rainforest, the Amazon Basin is a vital defense against global warming. Yet deforestation combined with extreme weather are behind the region’s worst drought in fifty years....
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