Police Arrest 14 People Behind 8 Million-User Piracy & Subtitle Site
Back in 2014, the MPAA made its usual ‘notorious markets’ submission to the USTR and among regular targets such as…
Seeing the Pentagon Papers in a New Light
by Stephen Engelberg This column was originally published in Not Shutting Up, a newsletter about the issues facing journalism and…
Contractor Who Was Awarded $34.5 Million in Government Money and Provided Zero Masks Pleads Guilty to Fraud
by J. David McSwane ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest…
IOC is Extremely Concerned About the Impact of Piracy on the Olympics
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is known to maintain a tight grip on its intellectual property rights. Using an image…
A wet Amazon may be more resilient to a drying climate than thought: Study
In some of the wettest parts of the Amazon rainforest, dry air may increase plant photosynthesis rates — a response…
Trader Cargill, pension fund TIAA linked to land grabs in Brazil’s Cerrado
In the far west of Brazil’s Bahia state, sprawling soybean plantations extend from the edges of the highways right up…
For border-crossing Thai tigers, the forest on the other side isn’t as green
Big cats require big home ranges. In February 2016, a young male Indochinese tiger (Panthera tigris corbetti) walked from Huai…
New approaches needed to protect biodiversity as Aichi Targets go unmet
As the planet continues its trajectory into what some have dubbed “the sixth mass extinction,” the diversity of life is…
Newly described chameleon from Madagascar may be world’s smallest reptile
Frank Glaw is no stranger to discovery. The German herpetologist has helped describe scores of new species from Madagascar, but…
Study reveals how species once extinct in the wild have bounced back
In 1992, global leaders gathered at a United Nations summit in Rio de Janeiro to sign the landmark Convention on…