“Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster ... # # ....
It’s been a wild week. Somewhere in Christchurch, New Zealand, I learned of the passing of TatianaSchlossberg, a journalist whose work I have long admired ... He was just 60 and a classmate of the farm husband ... On Nov ... (Wipe tears, new paragraph) ... Deal?.
The world’s largest buyers of Brazilian soy have announced a plan to exit from a landmark antideforestation agreement, the Amazon Soy Moratorium ... The decision was communicated on Dec ... Some companies may decide to stay and others may decide to leave.
In December 2022, nearly 200 nations committed to protecting 30% of Earth’s lands and waters by 2030 ... This marks a 1.2% increase in 2025, up from 8.4% coverage in 2024 ... Mongabay chronicled some of the progress made toward protecting the oceans in 2025.
The European Union’s antideforestation law, known as EUDR, has officially been delayed for a second year. The amendment was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on Dec. 23, 2025 ... Now, it has been pushed back another year.
In 2025, Missoulian photographers Ben Smith and ShannaMadison captured the moments that tell the visual story of the place we call home this year ... .
Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion are projected to reach a record 38.1 billion metric tons in 2025, an increase of 1.1% from 2024, according to the 2025 Global Carbon Budget... 13 as a preprint ... U.S.
A Kenyan environmentalist hugged a palm tree for 72 straight hours in Nyeri county to draw attention to the rapid loss of the country’s native forests, many of which face extinction ... She didn’t eat or sleep for the duration of the hug.
This perpetual fog is great for the orchard crops but not so good for the mind ...Lucy sang a duet and told jokes with her adorable husband, Laurence Luckenbill ... ShannaLong is a fourth-generation journalist and former editor of the Corning Observer ... ....
The European Parliament voted on Dec. 17 to delay a key antideforestation regulation that was adopted in 2023 and originally supposed to be implemented at the end of 2024 ... 31, 2020. That requirement includes submitting geolocalized data.
Narcotrafficking gangs operating out of Manabí, a coastal province of Ecuador, are also involved in trafficking shark fins alongside their drug operations, according to a recent investigation by Ecuadorian news agency Código Vidrio.