Scattered throughout one zoo and two sanctuaries in Australia, a few thousand northern corroboree frogs look forward to science to advance. The captive-bred frogs — critically endangered — fill an…
Final October, when former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated the far-right incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, in Brazil’s nationwide election, environmentalists world wide breathed a sigh of reduction. Beneath Bolsonaro,…
Among the many many illnesses plaguing Southeast Asia’s Mekong River, “hungry water” stands out with explicit readability. In latest dry seasons, the Mekong has in locations turned a pristine blue…
What occurs to the setting when a big, industrialized nation is consumed by struggle? Ukraine is discovering out. Whereas concern about human lives stays paramount, Russia’s struggle on that nation’s…
Writer David Quammen was effectively positioned to see the pandemic coming: nearly 10 years earlier, he had written a guide referred to as Spillover: Animal Infections and the Subsequent Human…
In January 1769, botanists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander discovered a daisy in Tierra del Fuego, on the southern tip of South America. Later named Chiliotrichum amelloides, it’s one among…
Namibia has lengthy been praised for its regionally based mostly conservation areas that profit each wildlife and rural communities. However the authorities is now permitting oil and gasoline and different…
Until a century previously, nearly a third of Finland was coated with flawless gatelands, which embody considered one of many largest and most significant carbon decreases on earth. Since then,…
In early December of 2016, the carcasses of juvenile humpback whales started turning up within the busy waters across the mouth of Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay. By the tip of February,…
Karen Bakker is a geographer who research digital innovation and environmental governance. Her newest e book, The Sounds of Life, trawls by means of greater than a thousand scientific papers…
