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KATHMANDU — A year ago, the appearance of the Asian small-clawed otter in Nepal created a buzz, given that the species hadn’t been seen in the country in 185 years. Since then, however, it’s disappeared once again, with no confirmed…
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G. Michael Green Deputy Associate Administrator for Management, Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate G. Michael Green is the Deputy Associate Administrator for Management for the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD). He oversees the integration and management of institutional capability within ARMD,…
I write short obituaries for people who spent their lives protecting parts of the natural world. I work on them in the margins of other responsibilities, yet they have become a constant. In 2025, I produced over 70. The people…
For much of the second half of the 20th century, the American outdoors attracted a particular kind of devotee. They moved easily between disciplines, took seasonal work without much concern for titles, and regarded time in wild places as…
The government says the practice is being used as a “smokescreen” for the hunting of wild animals.
Ford, a century after it launched the modern automotive era, has given up on its early ambitions to charge into the electrified future. The company announced that it will delete nearly $20 billion in book value to extricate itself from its EV investments, an eye-popping…
The first ever mass deployment of mother reef bricks aims to rebuild habitats – and could reshape the North Sea Allie Wharf’s career unfolded amid conflict. As a senior foreign producer for Newsnight, she reported on Iraq and Afghanistan. Just…
Asda, Lidl and Morrisons understood to be stocking imported branded turkeys to meet Christmas demand Several of the UK’s big supermarkets have been forced to source turkeys from elsewhere in Europe to keep shelves stocked this Christmas, after avian flu…
Pennsylvania is still cleaning up decades’ worth of coal mining pollution. Now it must also contend with millions of tons of fracking waste, some of it radioactive. Story by Kiley Bense, photos by Scott Goldsmith Fracking’s Forever Problem: Eighth in…