To Resurrect Jordan’s Lost Forests, People Plant Tiny Urban Ones
The team’s test plots also host some of Jordan’s rarest flora. In Marka, that includes saplings of Pistacia lentiscus, the wild pistachio tree—there are only…
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How Does a Newt Cross the Road? With Lots of Human Help
Around a hundred miles to the south of Chileno Valley Road, another group of volunteers—the Alma Bridge Newt Patrol—have been painstakingly documenting more…
A Global Boom in Fences Is Harming Wildlife
Fence construction is growing rapidly throughout the world. An extension of the dingo fence is underway to add another 460 miles. Stout, often impermeable,…
How Preserving Agave Could Help Save an Endangered Bat
In 2019, in the journal Scientific Reports, Gómez-Ruiz and Lacher followed their earlier paper with the first study to examine how climate disruption is…
Expanding renewable energy need not hinder conservation efforts
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A study led by the…
Inside the International Effort to Save One Tiny Mexican Fish
This story originally appeared on Atlas Obscura and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.At first glance, there's nothing remarkable about Mexico’s…
Scientists Capture Airborne Animal DNA for the First Time
But for many biologists, tracking mammals that move miles each day and are wary of humans can be nearly impossible. Enter eDNA. “If we want to restore…
The Great Danger of the Tiny Bark Beetle
At the same time, the life cycle of the beetle speeds up. These creatures are ectotherms, which means their function depends on the external temperature. If…
Jeff Bezos’ Earth Fund commits another $443 million to climate justice and conservation
On Monday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced his Earth Fund’s latest round of grants: $443 million to be spent primarily on land conservation and…
Bright Spots in the Global Coral Reef Catastrophe
Astonishingly, however, by 2010 global coral coverage was roughly back to pre-1998 levels. “That’s good news,” says Souter. “Even though reefs got knocked…