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Here be dragons: the million-year journey of the Komodo dragon
Far from being the special result of insular evolution, Komodo dragons are the last survivors of a group of huge lizards that ranged over much of Australasia. By Hanneke Meijer.
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The Moral Cost of Cats
A bird-loving scientist calls for an end to outdoor cats
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U.S. Forest Service ready to approve controversial Arizona copper mine
The giant open-pit project will dig up 90,000 tons of ore daily, producing 1.25 billion tons of waste. By Sarah Okeson.
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Where have all the insects gone?
Surveys in German nature reserves point to a dramatic decline in insect biomass. By Gretchen Vogel.
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Why Won’t the EPA Ban This Extremely Toxic Pesticide?
Scott Pruitt announced the EPA would reverse a proposed ban on this extremely harmful pesticide and allow it to remain on the market. By Nicole Greenfield.
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Pigeons in Vancouver [BC] are utilizing hypodermic needles for nests
Police in Vancouver shared an alarming photograph showing what appears to be a pigeon’s egg nest constructed out of hypodermic needles. By Jessa Schroeder.
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Did humans create the Sahara desert?
New research challenges the idea that changes in the Earth's orbit triggered Sahara desertification.
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Humans Are Wrecking the Last Place on Earth Where Orangutans, Tigers, Rhinos and Elephants Still Live Together in the Wild
There are some places in the world that are just so important, so vital to the survival of wildlife and so important to surrounding people and their livelihoods, that even if we doubt we will ever visit them in person, we just know we must cherish them. By Ian Singleton.
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Synchronous failure: the emerging causal architecture of global crisis
The framework shows how multiple stresses can interact within a single social-ecological system to cause a shift in that system’s behavior, how simultaneous shifts of this kind in several largely discrete social-ecological systems can interact to cause a far larger intersystemic crisis, and how such a larger crisis can then rapidly propagate across multiple system boundaries to the global scale.
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It’s Time to Take the Gaia Hypothesis Seriously
“Perhaps life is something that happens not on a planet but to a planet: It is something that a planet becomes.” By David Grinspoon
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Invasive Wild Pigs Leave a Swath of Destruction Across U.S. – And They Keep Spreading
They go by many names: wild boar, wild hog, razorback, Eurasian boar, feral swine. But whatever you call them, invasive wild pigs (Sus scrofa) are wreaking environmental havoc and spreading rapidly. Wild pigs were first brought to the southern U.S. in the 1500s as a source of food for early explorers and settlers, and repeated introductions occurred thereafter. In the 1900s, the Eurasian or Russian wild boar was introduced to the U.S. for sport hunting. Today’s invasive wild pigs are the descendents of introduced wild boar, escaped domestic pigs, and hybrids of the two.
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Senator: Army Corps Told to Approve Dakota Pipeline Easement
The Army Corps of Engineers was ordered to allow construction of the Dakota Access pipeline to proceed under a disputed Missouri River crossing, North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven said on Tuesday, the latest twist in a months-long legal battle over the $3.8 billion project.
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There used to be 4 billion American chestnut trees, but they all disappeared
The kings of the Eastern forest now die as shrubs
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Grass carp have invaded three of the Great Lakes, study says
Grass carp have been found in Lake Erie, Lake Michigan and Lake Ontario, although it’s uncertain how many there are or how widely they have spread. By John Flesher.
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How Life (and Death) Spring From Disorder
Life was long thought to obey its own set of rules. But as simple systems show signs of lifelike behavior, scientists are arguing about whether this apparent complexity is all a consequence of thermodynamics. By Philip Ball.
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Beavers are back in the UK and they will reshape the land
It has been 400 years since Britain was home to beavers. Now they have returned, and they are rapidly proving their worth
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Dark Ecology
“How did things get to be this way?” By Paul Kingsnorth.
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Ecologists Offer New Explanation for Mysterious Namibian Fairy Circles
Footprints of the gods, not so much, but the grassland phenomenon is still pretty cool. By Michael Byrne.
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Second winner of environmental prize killed months after Berta Cáceres death
Goldman prize winner Isidro Baldenegro López, who was known for his activism against illegal logging, was shot dead months after Berta Cáceres was murdered. By Nina Lakhani.
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The Mystery of Seahorse Key’s Missing Bird Colony Veers Into Strange Territory
Russian submarines? Black-ops helicopters? Vigilante sheepdogs? Cannibal snakes? Weird theories abound for the causes of the baffling case. By Brian Kevin.
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