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KATHMANDU — Debate is growing in Nepal over moves to start breeding the Bengal florican, a critically endangered bird, in captivity. A 2024 government plan that proposes captive breeding in zoos and aviaries has been held up as key to…
A giant fire last year consumed much of Canada’s Jasper National Park. Canadian scientists leading research into wildfires are using the blaze to learn lessons for the future.
Most of these little-known but already endangered fish have never been seen alive in their natural habitat, but are under threat from bottom trawling and deep-sea mining Three years ago I was running a research project from a bottom trawler…
Adam Met of the indie-rock band AJR thinks fan-building strategies can amplify the climate movement’s reach and impact. By Ryan Krugman Imagine if every climate policy rollback was met with the same unshakable loyalty Swifties show when Taylor drops a…
Kayaking on the river reveals signs of life that earlier had been stamped out. The city’s first open-water swim in nearly a century is planned there this month. By Leigh Giangreco CHICAGO—Krystyna Kurth likes to begin her tours of the…
A solar-powered canoe initiative originally launched in Ecuador’s Amazon in 2017 has now expanded to Indigenous coastal communities in Brazil, Peru, Suriname and the Solomon Islands. Researchers say the effort helps communities in tropical regions reduce gasoline and diesel use,…
Frontrunner Zack Polanski has dismissed claims of a ‘hostile takeover’ but contest has been unusually fractious The Green party will name its next leader on Tuesday after a fiercely fought leadership contest that has exposed tensions over tone, strategy and…
Weather services of UK, Ireland and Netherlands chose list of 21 names from 50,000 suggestions by the public Meteorologists in the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands have announced this year’s north Atlantic winter storm names, chosen after 50,000 suggestions were…
The mission’s goal is to find water on the Moon, which could open the door for a sustained human presence there.
Marc Stalmans, who died of natural causes on August 30th at 66, spent much of his life restoring life to a landscape once stripped of it. As the science director at Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, he was central to one…