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Terrie Moffitt interview: Can a young person's genes really set them up for a life of crime?

Terrie Moffitt interview: Can a young person's genes really set them up for a life of crime?

8 July 2020

Most adolescents dabble in delinquency, but few become lifetime offenders. Long-running studies can help tell us why and improve policing, says psychologist Terrie Moffitt
An area deforested by ranchers in the San Jose Las Flores community, 300 km north of Guatemala City

Money-laundering drug cartels are driving deforestation in Guatemala

1 July 2020

The practice of "narco-ranching", in which drug traffickers launder money through cattle ranches, seems to be responsible for swathes of deforestation in Guatemala, according to an analysis of aerial images

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