Conservation

Feral Cats Are Slaughtering Australia’s Reptiles

Feral cats are an ecological scourge, wreaking havoc on wild mammal, bird, and reptile populations. That doesn’t make the impact of these rogue floof monsters on Australia’s reptile population any less astonishing, though. Every year, feral felines kill some 466 million reptiles in Australia’s natural ecosystems, according to a new paper in Wildlife Research. When…

Conservation Maddie Stone Jun 25

Bear Cam Is Back

An annual rite of summer is upon us. No, not the solstice. Southern Alaska’s Katmai National Park has fired up the ol’ bear cam this week. And the bears are back in town. The long, cold winter of Alaska behind them, brown bears have emerged from their dens and are in search of tasty treats.…

Conservation Brian Kahn Jun 22

First Manta Ray Nursery Ever Discovered Shows Marine Protected Areas Matter

Manta rays are among the most charismatic undersea megafauna, but there’s still a lot we don’t know these flat, ginormous sea-dogs. Now, in trying to understand how their populations are connected in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have made a wild discovery. In Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, which sits about 110 miles southeast…

Conservation Brian Kahn Jun 20

China’s Plastic Waste Ban Will Create a Huge Issue For the World

For years, China has been the world’s plastic waste dump. Single use water bottles, yogurt cups, hummus containers, and countless other sundries we take for granted were shipped from developed countries to China for recycling. But a 2017 ban on the import of non-industrial waste is changing all that. Now, plastic once bound for Chinese…

Conservation Brian Kahn Jun 20

Climate Change Is Out, Drilling Is in With Trump’s New Ocean Policy

In the wake of the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, President Obama announced an executive order designed to help safeguard the oceans. Naturally, President Trump has decided to dismantle it and replace it with a policy touting the benefits of offshore drilling. In an executive order released Tuesday, Trump shifts the focus of…

Conservation Brian Kahn Jun 20

You Need These Award-Winning Nature Photos Right Now

Amid the toxic wasteland that is daily life, it’s important to step back and remember our world is still a place of wonder. And so I implore you to take a moment and do that with the winners of the Nature Conservancy’s annual photo contest. This year’s contest attracted a record-breaking 57,489 photographs taken by…

Conservation Brian Kahn Jun 20

Canadian Oil Pipeline Could Drive Famous Puget Sound Whales to Extinction

Orcas are one of the Pacific Northwest’s most iconic creatures. But despite their beloved status, the local resident population known as the Southern Resident killer whales are critically endangered, with just 75 known animals left. Now, advocates worry the Trudeau government’s plan to purchase the Trans Mountain Expansion Project may push the whales to the…

Conservation Lindsay Kneteman Jun 15

Five New Snail-Slurping Snakes Discovered in Ecuador

Ecuador has five new species of snake, described by science for the first time. But these critters aren’t just any rainforest snakes: the new species have a diet that’s exceptionally weird, eating almost nothing but soft, gooey prey like snails and slugs. The researchers who found them also took the unusual step of auctioning the…

Conservation Jake Buehler Jun 14

Scientists Call For Action to Prevent Right Whales’ Extinction

After a year with at least 17 deaths and a dismal breeding season, things are looking bleak for the North Atlantic right whale, one of the world’s most endangered large whales. The whales’ food is moving north and so are the gentle giants, into waters rife with fishing industry activity. According to a new paper…

Conservation Paola Rosa-Aquino Jun 12

Something Is Killing the World’s Oldest Baobabs

The largest baobabs have largely stood alone, bearing witness to history. Radiocarbon dating shows the oldest of these stout-trunked savannah trees have lived for upwards of 2,500 years, surviving the birth of Jesus, the Renaissance, two world wars, and the internet. But they may have met their match in climate change. A new paper published…

Conservation Brian Kahn Jun 11

Are Reusable Bags Really Better For the Planet?

Earlier this week, a pilot whale died after being found with 17 pounds of plastic bags in its stomach. The horrific incident was our latest reminder that plastic bags contribute to the scourge of marine litter. By sheer coincidence, it came on the heels of a major U.N. report pointing to plastic bag levies or…

Conservation Ian Graber-Stiehl Jun 6

New Device Brings Twilight Zone Sea Creatures Into the Sunlight

We’ve only explored a tiny percentage of the deep ocean, and most of its denizens remain alien to the public. Now, a team of researchers is working to change that with a portable device that transports creatures of the so-called mesophotic zone to the surface in one piece—that is, without causing their insides to explode…

Conservation Maddie Stone Jun 4

Madagascar’s Toxic Toad Invasion Is Worse Than We Realized

Madagascar has an invasive toad problem, and new research suggests that fears about its ecological consequences are well-deserved. Almost every predator native to the island is likely sensitive to the toads’ dangerous toxins. Asian common toads (Duttaphrynus melanostictus) were only recently introduced to Madagascar. They first turned up at the eastern port city of Toamasina…

Conservation Jake Buehler Jun 4

Please Stop Wiping Your Butt With North America’s Temperate Rainforests

I want to talk about Oregon—how fun it is to hike through Siuslaw National Forest, where the trees creep up to the coastline and ghostly stumps of Sitka spruce poke up from the sand. Or about the ride along U.S. 101, through tunnels carved from dense forests of hemlock and red alder, draped in bright…

Conservation Matthew Phelan Jun 4

Wyoming’s Grizzly Bear Hunt Won’t Happen Without a Fight

The Interior Department’s proposal to allow Alaskan hunters to shoot black bears in their dens may have sparked more outrage, but some major bear hunting news also came out of Wyoming last week, when a state commission decided to allow the first hunting season for grizzlies in over 40 years. On May 23, the Wyoming…

Conservation Maddie Stone May 30

The Practically-Extinct Northern White Rhino Just Got Some Good News

Things look pretty bleak for the northern white rhinoceros. Since the death of Sudan, the last male, the entirety of the subspecies has dwindled to only two females. But a group of scientists is churning away on a high-tech save involving carefully cryopreserved cells and tissue cultures from long-dead northern white rhinos. And a new…

Conservation Jake Buehler May 24

Ryan Zinke Wants to Let Hunters Shoot Alaskan Bear Families in Their Dens

In Alaska’s national preserves, certain predators—like wolves, coyotes, and bears—and their babies may soon lose key protections that make them more vulnerable to fucked-up hunting tactics. These 10 natural preserves covering almost 37,000 miles will be no safe place for these animals anymore. The National Park Service, a part of the Department of Interior, proposed…

Conservation Yessenia Funes May 22

France is Being Invaded By Giant Killer Worms

France is known for many of its cultural items, including exceptional cuisine, wine, and the Louvre. Soon, it may also be known for its arm-length, shovel-headed, carnivorous worms. New research suggests that several species of these discomfiting creatures—known as hammerhead flatworms—have slithered into the country as invasive species. Perhaps even stranger is the fact that…

Conservation Jake Buehler May 22

Incredible New NASA Images Show Puerto Rico’s Forests Still Scarred From Hurricane Maria

We’re 10 days out from the 2018 hurricane season, but if a new NASA-led aerial survey is any indicator, Puerto Rico’s forests and wetlands still have a long way to go before they’ve recovered from the last one. In April, a NASA science plane flew across a vast swath of Puerto Rico’s ecosystems, from tropical rainforests…

Conservation Maddie Stone May 22

Hawaii Is Losing Its Most Iconic Tree to Disease

Over the last several years, a deadly fungal disease has killed hundreds of thousands of native Hawaiian ʻōhiʻa trees. Before now, the disease—Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death—was limited to Hawaiʻi Island. But the disease-causing fungus has now been found on the island of Kauaʻi. And that’s a big problem, considering that ʻōhiʻa is arguably the most important…

Conservation Jake Buehler May 21

Feral Cats Are Slaughtering Australia’s Reptiles

Bear Cam Is Back

First Manta Ray Nursery Ever Discovered Shows Marine Protected Areas Matter

China’s Plastic Waste Ban Will Create a Huge Issue For the World

Climate Change Is Out, Drilling Is in With Trump’s New Ocean Policy

You Need These Award-Winning Nature Photos Right Now

Canadian Oil Pipeline Could Drive Famous Puget Sound Whales to Extinction

Five New Snail-Slurping Snakes Discovered in Ecuador

Scientists Call For Action to Prevent Right Whales’ Extinction

Something Is Killing the World’s Oldest Baobabs

Are Reusable Bags Really Better For the Planet?

New Device Brings Twilight Zone Sea Creatures Into the Sunlight

Madagascar’s Toxic Toad Invasion Is Worse Than We Realized

Please Stop Wiping Your Butt With North America’s Temperate Rainforests

Wyoming’s Grizzly Bear Hunt Won’t Happen Without a Fight

The Practically-Extinct Northern White Rhino Just Got Some Good News

Ryan Zinke Wants to Let Hunters Shoot Alaskan Bear Families in Their Dens

France is Being Invaded By Giant Killer Worms

Incredible New NASA Images Show Puerto Rico’s Forests Still Scarred From Hurricane Maria

Hawaii Is Losing Its Most Iconic Tree to Disease

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