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Despite major progress in Brazil and Colombia, deforestation led by farming still cleared an area nearly equal to Switzerland

The world lost 10 football fields of old-growth tropical forest every minute in 2023 and despite uplifting progress in the Amazon, the picture elsewhere is less rosy, researchers said on Thursday.

Republicans now less likely to think that President Joe Biden was legitimately elected compared to December 2021

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

Fellows play key roles in the most important work of the Tribune, helping with The Texas Tribune Festival and covering the biennial legislative sessions, education and the environment, among other important topics.

The Mega Millions lottery jackspot is approaching $1 billion ahead of Friday’s drawing

New findings by Elias Most of the California Institute of Technology and Alexander Philippov of the University of Maryland, College Park, in a study published on June 16 by Physical Review Letters, suggest that fast radio bursts could be triggered by a collision between two neutron stars, and released just…

Younger people believe companies have social responsibilities, while conservatives say they should stay out of politics – and the fight won’t end soon

At the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Special Collections, where I am head curator, we’ve recently completed a major digitization and rehousing project of our collection of over 5,400 photographs made by Lewis Wickes Hine in the early 20th century.