- The deaths of two unlicensed fishers in Kenya’s Lake Navaisha region, allegedly at the hands of the Kenya Coast Guard Service, raise questions about tactics used to police illegal fishing.
- Jayne Kihara, the member…
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Killings on Kenya’s Lake Naivasha raise questions over coast guard role
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How world’s deadliest border became safe haven for 6,000 rare species
The demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea is one of the world’s most dangerous frontiers, a 155-mile-long strip bristling with fences, minefields, and soldiers.
But over seven decades after the Korean War ended in an…
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Brazil’s land registry holds farmers accountable, but enables deforestation
- Brazil’s rural environmental cadastre was created to force landowners to comply with the law, regardless of the status of their properties. By registering, they not only provide accurate geospatial data but also…
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Sustainable biomass certification scheme is flawed, degrades forests, report finds
- The Sustainable Biomass Program (SBP) is a private certification scheme developed by the bioenergy industry to assure the sustainability of biomass for fuel. A new report alleges that SBP is certifying biomass…
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OpenAI Model Earns Gold-Medal Score at International Math Olympiad and Advances Path to Artificial General Intelligence
A few months before the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in July, a three-person team at OpenAI made a long bet that they could use the competition’s brutally tough problems to train an artificial intelligence model to think on…
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Cities by the Bay – NASA
NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers took this photo of California’s San Francisco Bay Area surrounded by the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, and their suburbs on Aug. 3, 2025. At the time, the International Space Station orbited 260…
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Climate change tests the resilience of people and desert-adapted wildlife in Namibia
- Since Namibia’s independence in 1990, the country has become a model of wildlife recovery, and is now famed for its free-roaming herds of megafauna and enigmatic national parks.
- A key to this recovery is the model…
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How a robotic hand uses nanosensors to detect toxic metals in water
An autonomous robotic system detects toxic heavy metals in water using self-powered nanosensors and ambient heat, enabling safe, real-time environmental monitoring without external power or manual sampling.
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The Painstaking Battle to Build Miami’s New Signature Bridge Arches
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In early August, the Florida Dept. of Transportation quietly extended—for the second time in two years—the expected completion date for the now $866-million Miami Signature Bridge project to 2029. The schedule is now five years...
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Space solar panels could deliver near-continuous power, study finds
A new study suggests that space-based solar panels could be the key to a clean energy future for Europe.
Led by King’s College London, it suggests that harvesting solar power from space could dramatically reduce Europe’s need for…
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