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The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion
In 1968, a book by a Stanford biologist predicted doom for the planet in coming decades. Whatever became of the population bomb? [Autoplay]
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As Animal Poaching Surges, Organized Crime Plays Bigger Role
Rhino horn and elephant ivory trafficking may be the soft underbelly of international criminal syndicates, says law enforcement veteran.
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Saigas, an Endangered Antelope, Dying of Mystery Disease
In the past two weeks, more than a third of all saigas have been killed, conservationists have found.
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Fort McKay: The Canadian town that sold itself to tar sands
The tiny Alberta town is one of the world’s single biggest source sites of carbon pollution. The community grew rich on oil, and was wrecked by oil. So local, Cece Fitzpatrick, decided to run for chief, promising to stand up to the industry which came there 50 years ago...
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Do trees communicate with each other?
Do trees communicate with each other? And if so, how?
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EU dropped pesticide laws due to US pressure over TTIP, documents reveal
US trade officials pushed EU to shelve action on endocrine-disrupting chemicals linked to cancer and male infertility to facilitate TTIP free trade deal.
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Suicide By Pesticide
What the honey bee die-off means for humanity. By Chris Martenson.
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Evolution in the bat of a butterfly wing
Evolution works through tiny corridors of space and time, churning genes and transforming species before our very eyes. By Victoria Schlesinger.
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Peak Oil
Roughly half of the world’s oil supply is gone; half is left. How will our society choose to use the oil that remains? By Stuart McMillen.
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The Archdruid Report: The Era of Pretense
“That’s the bitter irony of eras of pretense. Under most circumstances, they’re the last period when it would be possible to do anything constructive on the large scale about the crisis looming immediately ahead, but the mass evasion of reality that frames the collective thinking of the time stands squarely in the way of any such constructive action...”
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On the front lines of humanity’s high-tech, global war on rats
Last May, a member of Alberta’s rat patrol paid a visit to a farm on the outskirts of Sibbald, a small town near the Saskatchewan border. He found holes bored into the foundation of a grain silo...
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Bee losses are buzz kill for crops
Managed honey bee colonies suffered annual losses of 42%, with summer declines outstripping winter losses for the first time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Wednesday.
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Husband-and-wife scientists take on black muck clogging Chesapeake Bay
Using three experimental tanks at the Naval Academy, they’re attacking the gunk as if it were in a septic tank.
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The limits of nature writing
Does too much modern nature writing bear ‘the smudges of the writers’ desperate groping for the mot juste’? By Richard Smyth
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How our pact with fire made us what we are
We can melt ice sheets and cook landscapes. When humans made fire, they made themselves and their planet too
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Wild animals in drought-stricken Western states are dying for a drink
Everything from rats to hawks to cougars and bears are prowling closer to cities in search of food.
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Pollen and clouds: April flowers bring May showers?
The main job of pollen is to help seed the next generation of trees and plants, but a new study from the University of Michigan and Texas A&M shows that the grains might also seed clouds.
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Dead zones — where animals suffocate and die — found in the Atlantic’s open waters
Most dead zones are found along the coast and are a result of chemicals triggering algae blooms.
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Birds Are in a Tailspin Four Years After Fukushima
Like the proverbial canary in a coalmine, avian abundances may paint a grim picture of the effects of nuclear disasters on wildlife
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Five years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, we are closer than ever to catastrophe
Important changes have been made since 2010, but the oil and gas industry has not learned from the historic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
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