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Organized crime & gold trade are increasingly connected, report shows

Latin American cartels once were masters of the drug trade, but spikes in prices led them into controlling a new venture.
Criminals also took advantage of poor control over the mining sector and used it to launder…

Bitcoin boom comes with huge intensifying environmental footprint

Bitcoin is often portrayed by promoters as existing in a separate cyber universe, distinct from the biological world. This view is far from reality, say critics, who point to bitcoin’s serious and escalating…

Signs of hope for rescued gorillas rewilded in DRC, but security concerns linger

In October 2024, conservationists released four gorillas from the Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education Center (GRACE) in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo back into the wild.
The release took…

holes reminiscent of Swiss cheese

RHONE GLACIER, Switzerland (AP) — One of Switzerland’s glaciologists says his teams are noticing a strange phenomenon in the Alpine country’s glaciers. Holes are emerging…

Orcas discovered making tools from seaweed to ‘massage’ each other

Southern resident killer whales in the Salish Sea off the U.S. state of Washington have been observed making tools from bull kelp stalks, biting off pieces and using them to massage each other in a behavior…

Meatpacking giant JBS debuts on NYSE six months after $5m Trump donation

JBS, the world’s largest meatpacking company, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on June 13, just six months after its U.S. subsidiary, Pilgrim’s Pride, made a $5…

Brazil’s Indigenous Akroá Gamella reclaim and restore their land, one patch at a time

After decades of invasions, pollution and state neglect, the Akroá Gamella Indigenous people have reclaimed part of their ancestral land in the Taquaritiua Indigenous Territory, in Brazil’s Maranhão state, and…

With key court verdicts delayed, Nepal pushes infrastructure in protected areas

Nepal’s Supreme Court struck down a 2024 law permitting infrastructure in protected areas in January 2025, but the government continues to approve such projects as the full ruling remains unpublished.
Despite the…

In Cameroon, forest mapping app helps Baka protect biodiversity and way of life

In southeastern Cameroon, the Indigenous Baka people are helping protecting their forests with the Sapelli app.
They spearheaded the design of this tool as part of a 2021 project launched in six villages around…

Checking in on New England fisheries 25 Years after ‘The Perfect Storm’ hit movie theaters

Twenty-five years ago, “The Perfect Storm” roared into movie theaters. The disaster flick, starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg, was a riveting, fictionalized account of commercial swordfishing in New England and a crew who went…

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June 25, 2025

Category: 9. Environment