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"Interpol announces a new global fight against illegal deforestation"
#Trees #Environment #Deforestation

Interpol announces a new global fight against illegal deforestation
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Interpol and partners launched a global law enforcement effort Wednesday aimed at dismantling criminal networks behind illegal logging, timber trafficking and gold mining, which drive large-scale deforestation and generate billions in illicit profits each year. The effort announced ahead of the U.N. COP30 climate summit in Brazil will focus mainly on tropical forests […]

Following a great question from CERT.PL about GCVE KEV assertion format and especially about the confidence level for an evidence of a vulnerability assertion.
We made a first table of confidence level for the evidence in the KEV record format.
#kev #gcve

Mekong sand mining risks collapse of SE Asia’s largest freshwater lake, study finds https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/mekong-sand-mining-risks-collapse-of-se-asias-largest-freshwater-lake-study-finds/

Mekong sand mining risks collapse of SE Asia’s largest freshwater lake, study finds
Rampant sand mining in the Mekong River is directly weakening critical seasonal river flows that sustain Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, new research indicates. The Mekong’s annual wet season flood pulse that feeds water into Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake has been dwindling year by year. Experts have long pointed to upstream hydropower dams in China […]

In neither this year nor the next should anyone expect Russia to propose a deal that is meaningfully different from what it has already.
How do we change the circumstances?
There are two main levers.
The first deteriorates conditions inside Russia to the point that Mr. Putin is forced to consider ending the war as the lesser evil,
and it is achieved by imposing sanctions that would be powerful and smart enough to erode Russia’s capacity to wage war and significantly i…

Opinion | Ukraine Is Not a War of Attrition
Victory will belong not to the side with more resources, but to the side with the stronger, more adaptive and unyielding will to win.

"Norway postpones deep-sea mining activities for four years"
#Norway #Environment #Oceans

Norway postpones deep-sea mining activities for four years
Norway on Wednesday postponed the first licenses to permit deep-sea mining in its Arctic waters for four years, a delay environmentalists hope signals the "nail in the coffin" of the plans.

Drew Brees, Eli Manning Headline Finalists for Pro Football Hall of Fame https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-pro-football-hall-fame-finalists-drew-brees-eli-manning

🐈‍⬛ ‘They’re scared of us now’: how co-investment in a tropical forest saw off loggers
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/25/they-are-scared-of-us-now-how-one-tropical-forest-turned-the-tide-on-log…

‘They’re scared of us now’: how co-investment in a tropical forest saw off loggers
Low-cost tech and joined-up funding have reduced illegal logging, mining and poaching in the Darién Gap – it’s a success story that could stop deforestation worldwide

Ukraine launches first lithium mining project: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/13/ukraine-launches-first-lithium-mining.html

Cowboys Rookie RB Jaydon Blue Sends Honest Message After Breakout Game https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jaydon-blue-breakout-game/

Arch Manning Gives Blunt Fernando Mendoza Take Amid Raiders Link https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/arch-manning-blunt-take-fernando-mendoza/