Currently, human society is consuming natural resources as if there were one-and-a-half Earths, and not just a single blue planet, according to the most recent Living Planet Report released today. If governments and societies continue with ‘business-as…
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May 16
Wildlife in the tropics plummets by over 60 percent
In 48 years wildlife populations in the tropics, the region that holds the bulk of the world’s biodiversity, have fallen by an alarming 61 percent, according to the most recent update to the Living Planet Index. Produced by the World Wide Fund for Natu…
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Green Blog: A Rebound for 6 Fish Populations
The federal government says that improved stocks show that catch limits are working,
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Green Blog: On Our Radar: Imagining Many More Gray Whales
A study of DNA in whale bones seems to indicate that far more whales once existed than previously thought.
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May 14
Noel Rowe: all the world’s primates "in one place"
Spanning the gamut from mouse lemurs to mountain gorillas, All The World’s Primates is a comprehensive database of primate species. Founded in 2004 by Noel Rowe and Marc Myers and designed primarily to aid scientists and college students in primatol…
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Lens Blog: Joel Sartore’s Photos of Biodiversity Across the United States
Even 20 years photographing animals couldn’t have prepared Joel Sartore for some of the creatures he has encountered working on a series that aims to showcase biodiversity in the United States.
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Green Blog: On Our Radar: Rhino Poaching
A suspected rhino poacher is killed in a shootout in a South African preserve.
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Can loggers be conservationists?
Last year researchers took the first ever publicly-released video of an African golden cat (Profelis aurata) in a Gabon rainforest. This beautiful, but elusive, feline was filmed sitting docilely for the camera and chasing a bat. The least-known of Afr…
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Green Blog: On Our Radar: A Dry Year So Far
Most areas of the country had below-average precipitation in the first four months of the year.
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