Reporting and analysis our researchers are reading. Every item links out to the publisher — we point to the work, we do not republish it.
An investigation tracing how roughly $1 billion raised through Marfrig bond issuances financed cattle purchases linked to illegally cleared land in the Amazon and Cerrado, including feedlots tied to the company’s own board chairman.
Tropical megacities face mounting heat deaths, yet the proven remedies — tree canopy, green roofs, reflective surfaces, ventilation corridors — carry price tags Lagos, Mumbai and Jakarta struggle to meet, leaving the poorest residents most exposed.
The Department of Energy has staked $900 million on getting small modular reactors built by the 2030s, but no U.S. SMR project has broken ground and analysts doubt the sum covers the real cost of a first-of-a-kind plant.
Brazilian farming groups are restoring degraded pasture through regenerative techniques, with one initiative targeting a million hectares by 2030. Researchers caution that rebuilding soil productivity may simply enable further expansion unless forest protections are enforced alongside it.
An investigation into how AI-generated news sites are mass-producing climate skepticism, quoting experts and institutions that do not exist. The pieces reach large audiences through news aggregators and are amplified by established anti-climate groups.
New satellite and delta studies find coastal land sinking far faster than oceans are rising, putting roughly 80 million people below sea level. Megacities such as Jakarta and Semarang face flooding decades sooner than models predicted.
Chile’s Atacama salt flat supplies about a third of the world’s lithium, but brine extraction is draining water that Indigenous Lickanantay communities depend on, even as the state targets a 70 percent production increase by 2030.
