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According to a new analysis by researchers at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, deforestation worldwide proceeded more or less as anticipated from the trends established over the last 15 years, despite the significant upheavals in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers analysed historical deforestation data (2004-2019) from the Terra-i pantropical land cover change monitoring system to forecast expected deforestation trends for 2020 in the publication "Has glo...

According to a new analysis by researchers at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, deforestation worldwide proceeded more or less as anticipated from the trends established over the last 15 years, despite the significant upheavals in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Colorado Newsline Colorado Democrats rebranded their jail depopulation bill. Here’s what’s changed. Aim is still to limit arrests and use of cash bail for low-level offenses, but the new bill excludes nonviolent felony offenses Elisabeth Epps, founder of the Colorado Freedom Fund, visited the Denver jail on Aug. 4, 2020, to bail out three men. Epps has been a driving force in conversations surrounding bail reform in the state and helped spearhead legislation introduced in 2021 to limit t...