Earth News, Earth Sciences, Energy and Environment. http://www.terradaily.com/index.html Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:19:58 GMT Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:19:58 GMT en-us The Swiss are expected to snub a call to create a multi-billion-dollar climate fund, aimed at combating global warming and addressing its consequences, with polls indicating voters deem the ambitious project too costly. The climate fund initiative, launched by the Social Democratic Party and the Greens, calls for the country to spend 0.5-1.0 percent of Switzerland's annual GDP - around 4-8]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:19:58 GMT The death toll from a landslide at a mining site in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has passed 200, the government said Wednesday. A shaft collapsed at the country's largest coltan mine in the rebel-controlled east on Tuesday, witnesses told AFP, with an initial toll of six dead. The Rubaya mining site lies about 70 kilometres (45 miles) west of Goma, capital of North Kivu province,]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:19:58 GMT Millions of people in Somalia are at risk of famine due to prolonged drought, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned on Tuesday. After two consecutive failed rainy seasons, there is a high risk of a return to the "catastrophic levels of hunger seen in 2022", the ICRC said in a statement. Unless there is rain urgently, only a massive increase in humanitarian aid will p]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:19:58 GMT Axelspace Corporation has secured a role in a new satellite constellation project led by the Japan Ministry of Defense, signing a contract to provide optical imagery data to the program. The company, a long-time developer and operator of microsatellites, will deliver satellite imagery under an agreement with Tri-Sat Constellation Co., Ltd. and Mitsui Bussan Aerospace Co., Ltd. Tri-Sat Cons]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:19:58 GMT More than a century after Pavlov trained dogs to link a bell with food, neuroscientists at the University of California, San Francisco report that the brain may rely more on the timing of rewards than on sheer repetition when forming associative memories of cues and outcomes. Their work suggests that what matters for learning is how far apart cue-reward experiences are spaced in time, rather tha]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:19:58 GMT Food production currently accounts for about one third of global greenhouse gas emissions, and agriculture places heavy pressure on biodiversity, water resources and water quality across Europe. Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) report that it is possible to cut climate emissions and relieve pressure on nature without reducing overall food output by realloc]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:19:58 GMT Earths river deltas, home to about 5 percent of the global population and some of the worlds major cities, are sinking as land subsides faster than the sea is rising in many locations. New satellite radar observations from the Copernicus Sentinel 1 mission reveal that subsidence is a major and often dominant driver of relative sea level rise in these low lying regions. Ten of the worlds 34]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:19:58 GMT TerraClear has introduced TerraScout, an autonomous field robot that combines ultra high resolution imaging with onboard processing to generate real time prescriptions for large acre row crop operations. The system is designed to collect detailed visual data across entire fields at high speed and low cost, then convert that intelligence into mission plans for existing farm equipment. Found]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:19:58 GMT The warming El Nino weather phenomenon could return later this year as its cooling opposite La Nina fades away, the United Nations said Tuesday. The UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said the recent, weak La Nina was expected to give way to neutral conditions, which could then swing into El Nino before the end of 2026. La Nina is a naturally occurring climate phenomenon that c]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:19:58 GMT China began the first of its "Two Sessions" meetings on Wednesday, a grand political theatre during which it will outline its annual growth target and defence budget, as well as its roadmap for the next five years. Analysts, however, fear Beijing will not veer far from its current path despite the need for reform. President Xi Jinping is overseeing a week of political meetings in Beijing]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:19:58 GMT Ocean waves offer a vast and predictable source of renewable energy, but many existing technologies only perform efficiently under limited sea conditions. In response, a researcher at The University of Osaka has carried out a detailed analysis of a gyroscopic wave energy converter, or GWEC, to explore its potential for practical large scale power generation. The study evaluates how this device c]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:19:58 GMT Researchers at Kyoto University have outlined a new physical model in which disturbances in the ionosphere can generate electrostatic forces inside Earths crust that may help trigger large earthquakes when faults are already critically stressed. The work focuses on how space weather events such as intense solar flares alter ionospheric charge distributions and, through capacitive coupling, trans]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:19:58 GMT The US Senate on Wednesday rejected a resolution aimed at curbing President Donald Trump's authority to continue military strikes on Iran, in a narrow congressional show of support for a conflict launched without explicit approval from lawmakers. The bipartisan measure, introduced by Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Rand Paul, would have required the withdrawal of US forces from hostilities]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:19:58 GMT An armed attack on the headquarters of Upemba National Park in southeastern DR Congo has killed five staff members, the state-run body that manages it said Wednesday. The circumstances of Tuesday's raid in a region hit by local militias often organised along community lines, as well as criminal networks, have not been released. The park's HQ at Lusinga in Katanga province was "the target]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:19:58 GMT Mangrove forests are widely recognized as powerful natural carbon sinks, and new research indicates that a less familiar form of carbon stored in their soils could significantly shape how coastal ecosystems store and move carbon between land and sea. A study of mangrove soils in the Zhangjiang Estuary of China finds that black carbon, a highly stable product of incomplete combustion from s]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:19:58 GMT