Why deforestation matters—and what we can do to stop it

Removing trees deprives the forest of portions of its canopy, which blocks the sun’s rays during the day and retains heat at ...

Wildfires trigger massive soil loss for decades, new global map shows

Wildfires are devastating events that destroy forests, burn homes and force people to leave their communities. They also have ...
WTOP News

Brazil soy industry’s exit from moratorium on using Amazon land could spur deforestation

SAO PAULO (AP) — For nearly 20 years, Brazil’s largest soy producers assured buyers that their harvest — the world’s biggest — wasn’t grown on land cleared from Amazonian forests. The pledge, known as ...
The York Dispatch

DOE using its own land to help pair AI centers, nuclear reactors

WASHINGTON — The Energy Department wants to build nuclear-powered artificial intelligence data centers on federal land using new public-private partnerships. Co-locating advanced nuclear reactors with ...
Gizmodo

Is the Dracula Land Theme Park for Real?

Have you seen that news about plans for Dracula Land, an enormous development in Bucharest, Romania, that’s supposed to include not just a vampire-themed amusement park but a tech hub, a luxury ...
9to5Mac

Security Bite: Why I stopped using camera covers and you should too

9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Making Apple devices work-ready and enterprise-safe is all we do. Our unique integrated approach to ...
KBIA

Cover crops can heal soil, but need time to take root

Macauley Kincaid reconnects a hood to part of his mill Aug. 7 at his family farm in Jasper, Mo. Kincaid is the second generation in his family to farm crops for seed production. He still uses the same ...
MinnPost

Minnesota has over $5 billion it could spend to make up for lost federal money. Why isn’t the state using it?

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. As the federal shutdown careens into its second month, Minnesota DFLers ...
New Hampshire Union Leader

Land trust preserves 2,000 acres along Appalachian Trail

The Northeast Wilderness Trust has acquired more than 2,000 acres of land along the Appalachian Trail north of Lebanon called the Spruce Ridge Wilderness Preserve. Logging will not be allowed on this ...
Android Police

I stopped using the Galaxy Z Flip 7's cover screen, and I loved the phone even more

Andy is a seasoned technology journalist with more than 15 years experience in the mobile industry, writing for Digital Trends, Wired, and more. During that time he has reviewed hundreds of ...
Grist

Republicans are using an arcane oversight rule to permanently dismantle federal land protections

In the spring of 1996, lawmakers quietly buried a rider in a humdrum bill meant to make life easier for small businesses. That addition, the Congressional Review Act, granted Congress the power to ...