Warming Signs: How Diminished Snow Cover Puts Species in Peril
As the world warms, snow cover has been diminishing from the Alps to the Rockies.
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From Utah’s Red Rock Desert, A Call for Protecting Our Public Lands
President Trump has ordered vast portions of two national monuments in Utah stripped of protections.
For Endangered Florida Tree, How Far to Go to Save a Species?
The Florida torreya is North America’s most endangered conifer, with less than one percent of its population remaining.
How a ‘Toxic Cocktail’ Is Posing a Troubling Health Risk in China’s Cities
A recent study in Chinese cities found a potential link between a hazardous mix of air pollutants and death rates.
Flooding Hot Spots: Why Seas Are Rising Faster on the U.S. East Coast
Scientists are unraveling the reasons why some parts of the world are experiencing sea level increases far beyond the global average
Native knowledge: What Ecologists are learning from indigenous people
From Alaska to Australia, scientists are turning to the knowledge of traditional people for a deeper understanding of the natural world.
How eating seaweed can help cows to belch less methane
Emissions from the nearly 1.5 billion cattle on earth are a major source of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.
Conflicting Data: How Fast Is the World Losing its Forests?
The latest UN report on climate says reducing deforestation is crucial to slowing global warming.
Beetle mania: The nasty insect that is killing the trees of Johannesburg
South Africa’s largest city proudly notes that it has one of the world’s largest urban forests. But an invasive insect has been killing Johannesburg’s trees by the tens of thousands, and baffled experts are scrambling to find ways to stop it.
‘Rhino Coin’: Can a cryptocurrency help save Africa’s rhinoceroses?
South African ranchers who raise rhinos are supporting a virtual currency, backed by stockpiles of valuable rhino horn, to fund protection of the threatened animals.
