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Trump Administration Slashes Endangered Species Act, Worsening Extinction Crisis
It took just 30 minutes for Trump administration officials to announce dramatic steps to undermine more than 45 years of successful conservation policy under the Endangered Species Act. In an...
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Five Things to Watch at This Month’s Big Wildlife Trade Treaty Meeting
Dozens of important and potentially controversial decisions for the world’s most imperiled wildlife will come out of Geneva over the next few weeks. That’s where the representatives from 183 nations...
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The Federal Government’s Cruel War Against Wildlife
Wildlife advocates got a much-needed win recently when the EPA withdrew its support for M-44 “cyanide bombs” used to kill coyotes and other animals. The devices — which attract animals with tasty bait...
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September’s Best Environmental Books: The Green New Deal, Vanishing Species...
September has arrived, summer vacation season is over and it’s time to get stuff done — not just for the month ahead but for the future of the planet. With that in mind, this month sees the publication...
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What Are You Doing for the Climate Strike?
It began with 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg and quickly became a global movement. Starting today, and continuing for most of the coming week, students and workers from around the world...
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Climate Change, Extinction and Other Frights: October’s Scariest...
“Horror,” wrote novelist and critic Douglas E. Winter, “is not a genre. It is an emotion.” You know what else generates some horrifying emotions? Topics like climate change and extinction. As we...
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Saving the Vaquita: New Promises and New Threats
Six months: That’s how much time Mexico now has to report on its progress to save the critically endangered vaquita porpoise (Phocoena sinus) from extinction. It’s a time-sensitive deadline. After...
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The William Perry Pendley Rehabilitation Tour
William Perry Pendley wants you think that what he thinks doesn’t matter. Pendley spent four decades advocating for the corporate exploitation of U.S. public lands. He now serves the Trump...
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Flight Plight: Why I Chose to Fly to an Environmental Journalism Conference
FORT COLLINS, Colo.— It’s a cold Wednesday morning, and I’m standing in the dark outside a hotel waiting for my rideshare vehicle to arrive. My phone chirps to let me know that an unusual car is about...
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The Scariest Horror Movie of the Year Is an Environmental Documentary
Flames burn throughout the powerful new environmental documentary, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch. You may burn, too, while watching it — sometimes with rage, other times as though you’re in the midst...
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Strength in Numbers: November’s Best Environmental Books
An important theme runs through November’s new environmental books: We’re stronger together than apart. For one author that means fostering the ability of people and wildlife to coexist. For a group of...
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When it comes to solving problems related to wildlife trade, there are an awful lot of “sticky widgets.” That’s what Eli Weiss, founder of the WildiZe Foundation and host of the “Our Wild World”...
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Enough With the Fake Rhino Horns
Earlier this month a team of scientists announced they’ve developed a high-tech way to help save rhinos from poachers: They propose fabricating fake horns out of horse hair (which is also composed of...
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What Will It Take to End Extinction?
Could inventing a better air conditioner help to save species from extinction? It’s an idea so crazy it just might work — and it’s just one of many new and innovative conservation initiatives in...
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‘We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us’ — December’s Most Important...
‘Tis the season — to save the planet. We’ve picked the seven best environmental books being published this December, covering everything from saving pangolins to sustainable living. There’s even some...
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Art as Witness to the Extinction Crisis
Artist Zoe Keller specializes in drawing animals and species that may not be around much longer. “In darker moments, I think of my drawings as a ‘mourning’ ritual,” says Keller. “So many of the species...
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How Do You Save an Endangered Tree From Extinction When You Can’t Save Its...
A team of Indian conservationists working to save a critically endangered tree from extinction just achieved an important conservation success, but first they had three major stumbling blocks to...
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Tigers Extinct in Laos
Are tigers extinct in Laos? That’s the conclusion of a detailed new study that found no evidence wild tigers still exist in the country. What researchers did find during a five-year camera survey of...
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Tigers Deaths in Nepal Threaten Recovery
Sometimes success comes at a cost. Nepal recently announced that its tiger population had increased from 121 animals in 2009 to as estimated 235 in 2018, putting it firmly on track to fulfill its goal...
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Bearing the Burden of Climate Change and Extinction
The questions come to me almost every day. Sometimes a friend leans in toward me with a look of pain or confusion in her eyes. I’ve come to expect the question that’s about to follow. Other times they...
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