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Can You Draw An Extinct Species From Memory?
Pop quiz: What did the quagga look like? If you’re scratching your head, you’re probably not alone. It’s been 137 years since this South African zebra subspecies went extinct, and it was only...
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Tiger King: 5 Lessons From Beneath the Mayhem
Last month Netflix unleashed its captivating but sensationalized docuseries, Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness. The public, hungry for something new to binge-watch while they sheltered in place in...
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A Lost Leech and a Call to Protect the Bloodsuckers
Could a five-inch-long, bloodsucking leech inspire efforts to protect other leech species? Yes, according to researchers — but only if it’s not already extinct. That’s a possibility, as the New England...
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We Need to Talk About Spider Conservation
Spiders need our help, and we may need to overcome our biases and fears to make that happen. “The feeling that people have towards spiders is not unique,” says Marco Isaia, an arachnologist and...
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Links From the Brink: Pipelines, Pesticides and Shrunken Brains
The news moves quickly — especially when it comes to environmental issues, which despite the threat of climate change still tend to get overlooked by major media outlets. We know how easy it is to miss...
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Links From the Brink: Trump Revoked, Confused Cougars and Wombat Butts
Links — the connective tissue that binds us all together. The brink — the edge of something you don’t want to fall over, or a tipping point we can be pulled back from just in the nick of time. As the...
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Links From the Brink: Focus on Rewilding, Climate and the Media, and Arctic...
Life in these modern times: masks indoors for Covid, masks outside for wildfire smoke. Welcome to Links From the Brink. Best News (and Worst) of the Month: The media is finally paying attention to...
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Could Property Law Help Achieve ‘Rights of Nature’ for Wild Animals?
Humans share the Earth with billions of other species. We all need somewhere to live, yet only humans own their homes. What if other species could own theirs as well? That’s what Karen Bradshaw,...
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12 Environmental Novels We’re Reading This Fall
The collective unconscious is telling us something… These days more and more artists are turning their feelings about climate change, environmental justice and the extinction crisis into powerful...
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Project Animalia: A Year in 365 Animal Paintings
You can accomplish a lot in a year. Take artist Mesa Schumacher, for example. At the beginning of 2021 she set herself a lofty goal: Create and post illustrations for 365 species around the world. With...
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