The Vanishing Rio Grande: Warming Takes a Toll on a Legendary River
Hiking through the emerald green canopy of the bosque, or riverside cottonwood forest, near downtown Albuquerque, Tricia Snyder, an advocate for WildEarth Guardians, believes zero hour has arrived for the…
Can Synthetic Palm Oil Help Save the World’s Tropical Forests?
Tom Jeffries and Tom Kelleher met at Rutgers University in the 1970s while studying industrially useful microbes. Jeffries went on to run a yeast genomics program at the U.S. Department…
Sacred Groves: How the Spiritual Connection Helps Protect Nature
Governments from across the world made grand promises last month at the biodiversity conference in Montreal to save nature by protecting 30 percent of the planet’s land and oceans by…
Ozone Pollution: An Insidious and Growing Threat to Biodiversity
Sequoia National Park’s famous groves of stout, 300-foot-tall trees sit high on the western side of the Sierra Nevada, above California’s San Joaquin Valley. They are threatened as never before:…
Lauded as Green Model, Costa Rica Faces Unrest in Its Forests
Costa Rica has a green halo. In recent decades, the small Central American nation has transformed itself from a notorious hotspot for deforestation into a beacon of reforestation that is…
Pollen and warmth: A looming problem for international agriculture
In June, Aaron Flansburg felt the spike in temperatures and knew what it meant for his canola crop. Flansburg, a fifth-generation grower in Washington state, used the cool weeks of…
Outbreaks of fowl flu in marine mammals mark new period for lethal virus
Final June, the telephones at Marine Mammals of Maine began ringing – quite a bit. Individuals strolling the rugged shoreline of Casco Bay, which stretches north and south of Portland,…
For the Kayapó, a Lengthy Battle to Save Their Amazon Homeland
For greater than 4 a long time, Kokoró Mekranotire has watched with dismay as outsiders have laid waste to ever-larger swaths of his Kayapó homeland. Loggers, gold miners, farmers, and…
City Waters: Uncover the Hidden Fantastic thing about a Jersey River
In closely urbanized Camden County in southern New Jersey, the Cooper River winds previous factories, underneath interstate freeway bridges and over dams constructed way back to drive mills or management…
After the comeback, the swamps of southern Iraq are actually drying up
Three years in the past, the huge marshlands of Dhi Qar province have been thriving. Fishermen glided in punts over nonetheless waters between huge reed beds whereas buffalo bathed amid…