Live Long and Falter: Spry Population Linked to Endangered Species
If a country's human population is long-lived, it's bad news for the local critters—almost as bad as being a native bird in New Zealand.
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The Game of Climate Whac-a-Mole Will Hit the Tropics First
A new paper details when just about anywhere on the world can expect to have inarguable proof that global warming isn't a debate topic but a reality.
The Invisible Sea Creatures Worth More Than Uranium, Silver, and Kobe Beef Combined
Baby eels: the new hot thing to exploit for financial gain.
Wanna Save the Rhino? Legalize Horn Farming
Black-market rhino horns are more valuable than gold or cocaine. Could legalized "horn farming" save the endangered species?
In the Third Inning It’s Oil Drillers 1, Polar Bears 0
In a setback to the animal we described as the “fuzzy face of climate change,” a federal court…
Nepalese Tigers Figure Out How To Avoid Rush Hour
Ev’ryone el-us is jealous Via Kate Shaw at Ars Technica: We don’t necessarily need to separate human and…
Can Monk Seals Find a Berth on Noah’s Ark?
Must we triage the world’s biodiversity? An ecologist asks if it’s worth trying to save a species caught in an ‘extinction vortex,’ in this case monk seals, by culling Galapagos sharks that have their own survival issues.
Species Disappearing Faster Than We Can Count
We are losing species, by some counts, at a rate of more than 25,000 a year, which is a lot faster than we are discovering them.
Freeing Tangled Leviathans: The Whale Wrangler
The world’s largest animals get snarled in every kind of sea gear that has rope—mooring lines, gillnets, shrimp pots, anchors. Scott Landry figures out how to wrestle them free.
Let My People Surf… and Eat Salmon Jerky
Patagonia Clothing founder Yvon Chouinard almost became a food guru instead of an outdoor gear guru, but as his new enterprise shows, he's never given up on changing how the world eats.