“Degradation means that you still have standing forest, but you are losing some of the structure, some of the functioning,” says Armenteras Pascual. “You might even look and think it’s really a beautiful forest, but it’s not so healthy.” Being degraded also makes a forest more prone to wildfire. And once a part of the […]
Read MoreWhile that small-scale, low-tech approach may have kept saffron production going over the past few decades, it has also left it on the edge of extinction. “We’re being held back by the idiosyncrasies of the sector itself,” says Fernández. “What we’re trying to do now is bring about a change and a transition so we’re […]
Read MoreSamsung embraced the metaverse buzzword earlier this year. So when word got out that HTC, once a rival to Samsung, plans to release a metaverse-centric smartphone, people began wondering if the competition between the two companies is about to be rekindled on this emerging metaverse playground. Well, the answer is here. HTC unveiled its metaverse […]
Read MoreNews that Lake Powell, a reservoir on the border of Arizona and Utah, is slowly but surely drying up has spread far and wide. Behind the 1,320-megawatt Glen Canyon Dam and power station, Lake Powell plays an important role in providing power for some 3 million customers in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. […]
Read MoreThe relentless shelling of Ukraine is obscuring a shadow crisis created by the war: long-term damage to the global food system that seems likely to increase hunger, disrupt markets, change land and water use, and possibly even release more carbon into the atmosphere. Russia and Ukraine are Europe’s breadbasket; the International Food Policy Research Institute […]
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