AI Images Can Obscure the Reality of Factory Farms
Researchers found a hidden feature steered the AI-generated images towards more idyllic scenes.
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19 million Texans are registered to vote, breaking record
The number of Texans registered to vote jumped 2% from March even as the state struggles to process backlogged voter records.
What wolf culls could cost U.S. ecosystems
For centuries, wolves have been cast as vicious, bloodthirsty creatures of nightmares and fairy tales, rather than as deeply social animals with an important place in nature. We wanted to understand the animal behind those stories. So, in the 1990s, we spent six years living alongside a pack of gray wolves (Canis lupus) on the […]
Experts say higher education is an industry in turmoil. The collateral damage is widespread
AMHERST, Mass. — The parking lots are mostly vacant. Locked and dark, many of the buildings are lifeless but for dying plants in dusty pots. One of the few people visible is a white-bearded man on a riding mower,…
Bryce Canyon National Park Expands Visitor Access with Viewpoint Connector Trail
Visitors to Bryce Canyon National Park now have another way to travel to Bryce Point, with the completion of the final phase of the Bryce Canyon Shared Use Path.
Norway’s Telenor telecom faces lawsuit for giving user data to Myanmar junta
The state-owned company is accused of abetting crimes against humanity
Taiwan’s tea growers blend traditional terraces with climate adaptation
SHENKENG, Taiwan — Ten kilometers east of Taipei’s high-rises and dense traffic, the city gives way to a succession of steep, forested ridgelines sheltering villages in the valleys below. The subtropical mist that cloaks these slopes at dawn has already thinned, and by 9 a.m. the heat is climbing. Li Chao-shiang, an assistant professor in […]
Zion National Park Opens Visitor Access on the Zion Mt. Carmel Highway
Zion National Park Opens Visitor Access on the Zion Mt. Carmel Highway following a large rockfall that blocked the road.
Why border wall opponents link communities and ecosystems
A group of activists in the small border town of Lochiel, Arizona, U.S., is fighting to save 200-year-old cottonwood trees by stopping contractors from building a section of the U.S.’s new wall along its border with Mexico. One activist lived for over 70 days in the upper branches of an ancient cottonwood dubbed the “Grandmother […]
Africa’s governments already treat the internet as protest infrastructure. Its courts have not caught up
When many people gather, some states are not prosecuting people. Instead, it cuts the network
Lessons from Indonesians living with El Niño fires
In October 2006, I was supposed to be starting my dissertation research on tropical reforestation in Indonesia. Instead, I found myself in the forests of Tanjung Puting National Park in Central Kalimantan helping locals to fight fires with brooms, backpack pumps, and hoses connected to hand-dug water wells. It was an ‘all hands-on deck’ moment […]
Will British Columbia’s Wild Salmon Escape Aquaculture’s Disease Trap?
As wild salmon decline, the province becomes more dependent on the fish farms that may harm them.
Modified Fall Operations Begin at Grand Canyon’s North Rim Oct. 15
Grand Canyon National Park will begin modified fall operations at the North Rim on Oct. 15. As part of this transition Cape Royal Road and Point Imperial Road will be temporarily closed from sunset Oct. 15 through sunrise Nov. 3, 2026, to accommodate critical road repair and rehabilitation work in partnership with the Federal Highway Administration. The closure is necessary to maintain a safe work environment for crews while they complete these critical repairs.
What #EndSARS left behind in Nigeria: A generation caught between protest, politics, and departure
#EndSARS became more than a protest against police brutality. It became an entry point into political consciousness.
Following supply-chain profits could help fight environmental crime
The world has spent a decade trying to put a price on nature. Forests have become carbon sinks, while wetlands are increasingly described as natural infrastructure. Biodiversity is also being drawn into financial markets. Governments and investors have poured billions into carbon markets and conservation finance, including green bonds. Around them, a financial system is […]
Trinidad & Tobago’s Special Operations Bill and the geography of development
Once the state identifies an area, it must also ask, ‘What else is known about [it]?’
Who’s Behind the Push to Weaken NYC’s Climate Law?
A “grassroots” homeowners group leading the charge against Local Law 97 has deep ties to a powerful real estate industry association.
Biodiversity credits need a different path from carbon markets
Here is the argument I want to make plainly, before anything else: the biodiversity credit market should stop trying to copy carbon’s trick of reducing everything to one tradable unit, and should instead measure its own success by how continuously and independently a claim can be verified. Chasing a single elegant number, the way carbon […]
Pskov’s medieval religious art is being appropriated by the Russian state to support the invasion of Ukraine
Russian soldiers are appearing alongside saints in artwork at Russian Orthodox Churches
Technology-facilitated trafficking: How Bangladeshi migrants become victims of recruitment in Cambodia
17,031 Bangladeshi migrants travelled to Cambodia for work from June 2023 to July 2026
