Thursday, September 24, 2026

Tag: carbon market

A mangrove canal in the Sainte-Marie forest, Madagascar. Photo: Anai171 / CC BY-SA 4.0
Environment

Biodiversity credits shouldn’t copy the carbon market playbook

Jubanayan Saikia -
An op-ed argues biodiversity credits should be judged by how continuously and independently a claim can be verified, because a hectare of mangrove is not interchangeable with a hectare of grassland.

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The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington, D.C. Photo: Farragutful / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Democratic attorneys general say Education Department is hiding 1,300 documents on its layoffs

Harris Butler -
A privilege log lists nearly 1,300 records the agency says are too sensitive to hand over.
Hogs in a confinement barn. Hog operations account for nearly 60 percent of the manure produced by Iowa's mapped livestock facilities, Sentient Media found. Photo: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

We Mapped All 11,000 Factory Farms in Iowa. Here Are Five Things We Learned.

John McCracken -
Here’s what the data reveal about the country’s factory farm hotbed.
A patient room and bed. Photo: Diane A. Reid, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Nursing Home Beds Are Becoming More Scarce

Paula Span -
As the oldest baby boomers turn 80, researchers worry there won’t be enough room in nursing facilities for a rapidly graying nation.
The Royal Courts of Justice in London, where the high court issued its ruling. Photo: The wub / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

New Carter-Ruck ruling could leave legal watchdog ‘toothless’ against SLAPPs

Nathaniel Peutherer -
The ruling also threatens six unrelated SRA investigations into fraud and dishonesty that relied on the same privileged material.
A guided bomb unit JDAM kit, the same guidance kit at the center of the proposed Saudi sale, is assembled by U.S. partner-nation forces in the Middle East. Photo: U.S. Air Force AFCENT by Staff Sgt. Jovante Johnson (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Senators move to block $5 billion bomb sale to Saudi Arabia

Jordan Atwood -
The bombs would arm Saudi jets as senators also demand to see classified side letters on a separate nuclear deal.
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