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Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024 https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/protected-areas-hit-hard-as-mekong-countries-forest-cover-shrank-in-2024/

Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024
BANGKOK — The Mekong countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam lost a combined area of tree cover of nearly a million hectares in 2024, or an area almost the size of Lebanon. That’s according to Mongabay’s analysis* of satellite data published by the Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) laboratory at the University of Maryland, […]

Optimal Transfer Mechanism for Municipal Soft-Budget Constraints in Newfoundland
Xinli Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02171 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.0217…

Optimal Transfer Mechanism for Municipal Soft-Budget Constraints in Newfoundland
Newfoundland and Labrador's municipalities face severe soft-budget pressures due to narrow tax bases, high fixed service costs, and volatile resource revenues. We develop a Stackelberg-style mechanism-design model in which the province commits at initial stage to an ex-ante grant schedule and an ex-post bailout rule. Municipalities privately observe their fiscal-need type, choose effort, investment, and debt, and may receive bailouts when deficits exceed a statutory threshold. Under convexity a…

"Can we undo extinction? A growing effort to restore lost sharks"
#Sharks #Animals #Conservation

Can we undo extinction? A growing effort to restore lost sharks
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In the turquoise shallows of Raja Ampat, Indonesia, a conservation experiment is attempting the rewilding of an endangered shark. The initiative, known as ReShark, seeks to restore populations of the Indo-Pacific leopard shark (Stegostoma tigrinum), also called the […]

What’s next? A potato battery? 😉😂🤔
From: @…
https://mastodon.nz/@BobLefridge/115127460519331571

Excelente atención de Leopardina.
Dice la dueña del negocio que Leopardina es muy curiosa, pero se asusta con las motos. Que es cariñosa con los hombres y muerde a las mujeres.
#SanJosé #CostaRica

Dwarf Galaxies at Cosmic Noon: New JWST Constraints on Satellite Models and Subhalo Tidal Evolution
Jenny T. Wan (Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology, Stanford University), Philip Mansfield (Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology), Katherine A. Suess (University of Colorado, Boulder), Yunchong Wang (Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Sihan Yuan (Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophys…

Dwarf Galaxies at Cosmic Noon: New JWST Constraints on Satellite Models and Subhalo Tidal Evolution
The advent of JWST has revolutionized the study of faint satellite galaxies at $z \gtrsim 1$, enabling statistical constraints on galaxy evolution and the galaxy$-$halo connection in a previously unexplored mass and redshift regime. We compare satellite abundances at $1 < z < 3.5$ from recent JWST observations with predictions from cosmological dark matter-only zoom-in simulations. We identify and quantify several sources of biases that can impact theoretical satellite counts, finding that assu…

"Trump’s budget would end 7 decades of climate data collection"
#US #USA #America #Climate

Trump’s budget would end 7 decades of climate data collection
The Trump administration’s proposed 2026 budget for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) cuts funding for several critically important national laboratories and observatories. On the chopping block is Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawai‘i, which has been recording atmospheric carbon data every day for nearly 70 years. Mauna Loa Observatory sits atop a volcano […]