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Orangutans, Drones, Seaweed and Water Wars: The 13 Best New Eco-books for August
It’s the height of summer, and there’s no better way to while away the hot August evenings than to curl up with a good book. Luckily there are dozens of great new environmental books coming out in...
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When This Rat Went Extinct, So Did a Flea
When Western sailors first landed on the uninhabited volcanic outcropping in the Indian Ocean that would later become known as Christmas Island, they found it abounding with unique and interesting...
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Extinction in a Handful of Cards
Most people attending comic-book conventions go there in search of original art, rare toys, geeky collectibles or celebrity autographs. I look for dead things. As I wandered the aisles of Rose City...
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The National Wilderness Institute no longer exists. Its website has disappeared, its phone number has been disconnected, and its founder has moved on to become a senior advisor for the...
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Make Death Green Again
All the world over, death is a very green thing. I see it every day here in the rainforests of coastal Alaska. There are the fallen corpses of giant hemlocks, which lie for decades sheltering wildlife...
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Swampy Thing: The Giant New Salamander Species Discovered in Florida and Alabama
Sometimes you go into a Florida swamp to study turtles and end up encountering a two-foot-long salamander previously undescribed by science. That’s what happened to biologist David Steen back in 2009...
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Hawaii’s Snail Extinction Crisis: ‘We’re Just Trying to Stop the Bleeding’
The first extinction of 2019 was a snail named George. George, the last individual of a Hawaiian tree snail species known only as Achatinella apexfulva, died New Year’s Day in a laboratory on Oahu,...
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Why We Should Care About Parasites — and Their Extinction
Parasite. To most people, the very word is cause for fear or disgust — which is a shame, because most parasites don’t actually harm their hosts. In fact their very existence is a sign of a healthy...
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Meet Australia’s Newest Species: An Endangered Tick
Ticks have been making headlines recently. Whether it’s due to tick-borne disease, range expansion, or the emergence of invasive tick species — as far as most folks are concerned, ticks are bad news....
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Legume Gone: The Shocking Reasons for a Tree’s Extinction in India
Sand is big business — and a dangerous one. Around the world illegal sand mining — often run by vicious “sand mafias” — has been linked to black markets, violence and even murder. It’s the shadier side...
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Take Me Out to the Extinction Game
Sports team mascots serve several important purposes for colleges, universities and professional organizations. Mascots help establish brand identity and provide a point of emotional connection for...
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Here There Be Monsters (Made of Coal, Plastic and Pesticides)
Sometimes the latest bad environmental news makes us want to scream like someone in a horror movie who’s just come face to face with Frankenstein’s monster. Frankenstein’s monster isn’t too happy about...
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A Steal of a Deal: How Ranchers Take Advantage of Public Lands
What animal could survive on $1.35 worth of food a month? Certainly not your average housecat, which can eat up to $45 worth of food every 30 days. So why, then, do cattle and other livestock in the...
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Rise of the Extinction Deniers
Extinction’s not a problem, right? That’s actually a point made quite a bit lately by a group of “extinction deniers” — people who use the relatively low number of confirmed extinctions to say there’s...
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‘A Complete Enigma’ — New Zealand Lizard Declared Extinct 130 Years After...
In 1887 the Belgian-British zoologist George Albert Boulenger, who famously named more than 2,000 species around the world, scientifically described a slim New Zealand lizard he called Oligosoma...
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Millions of Tokay Geckos Are Taken From the Wild Each Year. International...
A popular reptile often found in pet stores is also one of the most heavily traded wildlife species on the planet — perhaps even more than pangolins. A decision pending later this month could help...
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A Chance to Save the ‘Rhinos of the Sea’
Many scientists wait for their whole careers to see their predictions proven correct — and if that happens, it’s often cause for celebration. But for conservation scientists who study threatened...
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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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An Emerging Threat to Conservation: Fear of Nature
What do we lose when natural spaces and species disappear? Increasingly, research has shown that as species and ecosystems vanish, it also chips away at our ability to preserve what remains — because...
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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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