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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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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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Landspeak
For over a decade I have been collecting place-words: gleaned singly from conversations, correspondences, or books, and jotted down in journals or on slips of paper. Now and then I have hit buried treasure in the form of vernacular dictionaries or extraordinary people—troves that have held gleaming handfuls of coinages. One such trove... By Robert MacFarlane.
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Grass Gourmands: A Herbivore Food Mystery On The African Savanna
A new study sheds light on a longstanding ecological question: How do so many species like impalas and elephants co-exist when they're all feeding on the same limited foods?
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To Save California, Read “Dune”
Fifty years ago science-fiction author Frank Herbert seized the imagination of readers with his portrayal of a planet on which it never rained. In the novel Dune, the scarcest resource is water, so much so that the mere act of shedding a tear or spitting on the floor takes on weighty cultural significance...
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The rewilding plan that would return Britain to nature
The UK has lost almost all its native wildlife, especially its forests and big animals. Rewilding would bring back everything from beavers to bears.
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Science Challenges Claim That Global Warming Took a Hiatus
NOAA's reanalysis shows no slowdown in rising temperatures over the past 15 years, undercutting a favorite argument of climate change skeptics.
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Roadside verges ‘last refuge for wild flowers’
More than 700 species of wild plants - almost half of the native flora of the British Isles - are found on road verges, according to a study.
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The Archdruid Report: The Era of Breakdown
Druid perspectives on nature, culture, and the future of industrial society
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Alaska’s Rare Alexander Archipelago Wolves Nearly Wiped Out in 1 Year
Only about 60 of these now critically-endangered wolves remain
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Joint Canada-U.S. effort aims to restore bison to Great Plains
A sprawling network is attempting to restore bison in as many places in the U.S. and Canada as possible.
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Pope Francis, in Sweeping Encyclical, Calls for Swift Action on Climate Change
He attributed environmental destruction to apathy, the reckless pursuit of profits, excessive faith in technology and political shortsightedness.
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Bees feeding on fungicide-dosed flowers develop health issues, studies say
While insecticides are a known deadly threat, two studies find that bees exposed to fungicides are smaller, sickly and declining in ‘chemical cocktail’ farmlands
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Louisiana's Bears Are Making a Comeback
The state thinks the bears are doing well enough to merit removal from protected status. Others disagree.
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Wild beaver gives birth in England
A female from the first wild beaver colony in England for hundreds of years has given birth to at least two young.
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The Archdruid Report: The Delusion of Control
I'm sure most of my readers have heard at least a little of the hullabaloo surrounding the release of Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si...
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Oslo creates world's first ‘highway’ to protect endangered bees
From flower emblazoned cemeteries to rooftop gardens and balconies, Norway's capital Oslo is creating a “bee highway” to protect endangered pollinators essential to food production...
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Troubled Delta System Is California’s Water Battleground
The fight pits the north against the south, farmers against environmental groups, farmers against one another and residents against the governor.
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Feeding Nunavut
What Happens When a Hunter-Gatherer Society Runs Out of Food?
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Jumping Worms Have Invaded Wisconsin
A wriggling worm is becoming a problem in the Midwest.
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