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In small island states, conservation has often depended less on formal institutions than on vigilance: watching harbors, checking traps, noticing what does not belong. The work is repetitive, practical, and easily overlooked. It rarely comes with titles or funding cycles…
3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Jen Madsen and Trey Perryman Artemis II Orion Mission Evaluation Room Leads Jen Madsen and Trey Perryman stand in the Orion Mission Evaluation Room in the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center…
Trump ratcheted up his questionable claims about the environment and how to deal, if at all, with the threats to it In the past decade at the forefront of US politics, Donald Trump has unleashed a barrage of unusual, misleading…
Attenborough, 99, enthuses about tube-riding pigeons, foxes, parakeets and others in Wild London for the BBC Filming the wildlife of London requires an intrepid, agile presenter, willing to lie on damp grass after dark to encounter hedgehogs, scale heights to…
Smallholders produce significant quantities of Vietnam’s coffee, Indonesia’s palm oil, and Thailand’s rubber exported into the EU. Yet under the bloc’s upcoming deforestation-free regulation (EUDR), industry experts say small-scale producers across Southeast Asia need more support to help prepare them…
As Indigenous peoples and local communities globally struggle to safeguard their rights over their land and forests, Nepal hasn’t been an exception. In the face of socioeconomic and environmental threats, from infrastructure development projects including hydropower, cable car and mining,…
As its polluting coal ash ponds remain in groundwater, Alabama Power has doubled down on fossil fuel energy investments. By Lee Hedgepeth Wired for Profit: Third in a series about Alabama Power’s influence over electric rates, renewable energy, pollution and…
GoldenOak’s music turns floods, forest loss and climate anxiety into folk songs rooted in Maine and shaped by activism. By Ryan Krugman PORTLAND, Maine—Onstage, Zak and Lena Kendall sing in steady harmony about the flood that left their hometown under…
Rarely do species presumed extinct reappear with renewed hope for a better future. But researchers in Australia not only discovered a wild population of Campbell’s keeled glass-snail on Australia’s Norfolk Island in 2020 — they’ve now bred the snail in…
The world’s most expensive plant, saffron, is as delicate as it is valuable. Each purple flower blooms for less than three weeks a year, and only its three tiny, fragile red stigmas are edible. Harvesting them is a painstaking process:…