It's the News: with context
PICTURED: Revoked oil palm plantation permits total 1.7 million hectares. On January 6th, Indonesian President Joko Widodo announced that…
PICTURED: British warships, pennants painted over, off Gibraltar in March 1982, heading for the Falklands. PC: Pete Reeves CC…
PICTURED: A slash and burn agriculture landscape in the Amazon. PC: Matt Zimmerman. CC 2.0. Year over year increases…
One of the lesser-discussed features of COP26 was the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), announcing a…
Palmitic acid, the world-changing fatty acid in palm oil, has been shown in recent years of research to induce,…
PICTURED: The Chang’e-5 return module sits on the snow-covered ground in Inner Mongolia, smoldering from its reentry into Earth’s…
The Fiscal Monitor, a yearly report issued by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has found that at the end…
As our life unfolds, the hippocampus, a part of the brain responsible for creating short term memories for long…
Theorized as a potential future center of volcanology on Earth, a “magma well” in remote Iceland is the site…
PICTURED: The NSA headquarters building at Fort Meade, Maryland. A U.S. court has upheld a three year-old dismissal of…
PICTURED: On the left, an image of the helicopter rescue from the Fall of Saigon, 1975. On the right,…
PICTURED: The drill hole from Perseverance’s second sample-collection attempt can be seen, in this composite of two images taken…
In an already bloated military defense budget, the House Committee on Armed Forces recently marked up the National Defense…
DJA BIOSPHERE RESERVE, Cameroon. April 1st 2019. PICTURED: A chief of the Baka pygmies looks pensive in a forest…
PICTURED: An image taken by the rover of the borehole made in the recent failed extraction. PC: NASA/JPL-Caltech. MARS.…
Sabinoso Wilderness Area in New Mexico, an inaccessible and tiny refuge just 5 years ago, has grown by almost…
In a paper published last year, Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change member and Oxford professor of geosystem science Myles…
PICTURED: Aerial view of the landscape around Halimun Salak National Park in West Java, Indonesia. Swidden farming dominates in…
A new paper published today in Nature shows that as the climate continues to change, cities can defend themselves…
PICTURED: An image of Venus showing the clouds, taken by the ultraviolet imager of the Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki,…
