Amphibians Making a Comeback from Chytrid
Amphibian species around the world face a threat the likes of which few (if any) other vertebrate species have had to grapple with: Chytrid fungus. Chytridiomycosis, the infection which is caused by...
View ArticleWhat is Causing Florida’s Algae Crisis? Five Questions Answered
Two large-scale algae outbreaks in Florida are killing fish and threatening public health. Karl Havens, a professor at the University of Florida and director of the Florida Sea Grant Program, explains...
View ArticleWhat Philosophers Have to Say About Eating Meat
WeWork, a co-working and office space company, recently made a company policy not to serve or reimburse meals that include meat. WeWork’s position has a moral basis and powerful philosophical allies.
View ArticleWhy People Become Vegans: The History, Sex, and Science of a Meatless Existence
November is World Vegan Month, a good time to explore why people become vegans, why they can inspire so much irritation and why many of us meat-eaters may soon join their ranks.
View ArticleWe Train Colombian Woolly Monkeys To Be Wild Again – And Maybe Save Them From...
Andean woolly monkeys are at risk of extinction in the next century, and they have already disappeared entirely in some parts of Colombia. To save them, Colombian wildlife and environmental agencies...
View ArticleTrump Ramps Up Reckless Assault on the Arctic Refuge
The Trump administration is preparing to sell oil and gas leases within the ecologically sensitive coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America’s premier wilderness refuge.
View ArticleFossil Fuels Are Bad For Your Health and Harmful in Many Ways Besides Climate...
Climate change is not the only reason to ditch fossil fuels. The coal, oil, and natural gas industries are also major contributors to human rights violations, public health disasters, and environmental...
View ArticleTrump Regulators Gave Oil Industry a Pass to Injure Whales, and We’re...
The low, guttural bellows and high-pitched calls of the North Atlantic right whale may soon be drowned out—or altogether silenced—by the continuous blasts of seismic airguns used to identify dirty...
View ArticleA New Way to Curb Nitrogen Pollution: Regulate Fertilizer Producers, Not Just...
A new strategy for reducing nitrogen pollution draws on the example of U.S. fuel efficiency standards, which reduce fuel consumption by regulating a relatively small group of large car manufacturers.
View ArticleBeach Cleanup at Kamilo Point, Hawai’i
I am one of the many volunteers that Hawai'i Wildlife Fund (HWF) counts on to help clean up the plastic marine pollution at Kamilo Point. Kamilo, located on the southeastern part on the island of...
View ArticleSea Creatures Store Carbon in the Ocean–Could Protecting Them Help Slow...
Marine animals can sequester carbon through a range of natural processes that include storing carbon in their bodies, excreting carbon-rich waste products that sink into the deep sea, and fertilizing...
View ArticleSaving Earth
If plastic pollution of oceans throughout the world continues at its current rate, by the year 2050 they will contain more plastic than fish by weight.
View ArticleClimate Change Alters What’s Possible in Restoring Florida’s Everglades
Growing evidence of unanticipated effects from climate change and sea level rise is forcing experts to reassess what is possible in restoring the Florida Everglades.
View ArticleWhy Do Gray Whales Keep Dying?
Gray whales are washing up all along the West Coast in disturbing numbers, adding further evidence that humans are causing ecological disaster.
View ArticleClimate Change is Affecting Crop Yields and Reducing Global Food Supplies
Climate change has affected agricultural yields in many places, reducing global production of staples such as rice and wheat and shrinking food supplies, particularly in food-insecure developing...
View ArticleAs Alaska Overheats, Trump Administration Policies Could Make Things Worse
As Alaska experiences its hottest days on record, a result of human-caused climate change, the Trump administration pursues policies in Alaska that will make climate change even more extreme.
View ArticleWhy Carbon Dioxide Has Such Outsized Influence on Earth’s Climate
The key to carbon dioxide's strong influence on climate is its ability to absorb heat emitted from our planet's surface, keeping it from escaping out to space.
View ArticleTrophy Hunting: Can It Really Be Justified By “Conservation Benefits”?
Even if trophy hunting can produce conservation benefits, it is unethical to cause the death and suffering of individual animals to save a species.
View ArticleDisbanded EPA Air Science Panel Meets Anyway, Finds Particle Pollution...
Our panel met publicly to carry out a scientific review of the EPA's draft summary of scientific findings on the health effects of fine particle air pollution. We concluded that existing standards for...
View ArticleEmperor Penguins Could March to Extinction If Nations Fail to Halt Climate...
Our newly published study found that if climate change continues at its current rate, Emperor Penguins could virtually disappear by the year 2100 due to loss of Antarctic sea ice.
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