Author: Maria Vlastara

From fancy oat milk lattes to organically grown produce at the local market, organic food has moved from niche to mainstream. But Europe’s farmers, weighing the complex rules and costs of green farming, are struggling to keep pace with demand. In 2020, the European Commission set a bold goal: 25% of EU farmland under organic […]

Asier Larrañaga Ochoa de Eguileor, a wildfire analyst at the Catalan Fire and Rescue Service, experienced the Solsonès wildfire in Spain in 1998 and still remembers it as a revelation. “I had basic fire theory training, but what I saw on the ground didn’t match any of it. Fires were jumping over valleys. Firebreaks were […]