Category: Biodiversity

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Meet Elizabeth Ann, the first endangered species in the United States to be successfully cloned.

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Florida has a new enormous invasive predatory fish likely to devastate its freshwater ecosystem.

AmandaGorman Biodiversity ClimateCrisis Recommended WarOnWildlife

Ecologists warn of a lethal, ghastly future, and they insist we stop sugarcoating it.

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Strip mining the eastern slopes of Alberta's rocky mountains threatens biodiversity and watersheds.

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US Appeals Court rejects Trump's attempt to create a dead zone in the Beaufort Sea.

Ranger selfie with his buddies. The rangers protect the Gorillas from poachers in the Congo.

Biodiversity ClimateCrisis Extinction WarOnWildlife WWF

'Extinction denial' is the new thing for anti-science conspiracy theorists, warn Biologists.

Root Zone Wetness

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Forests to go the way of coral reefs, unable to keep pace in a warming world.

A small remnant of Tallgrass Prairie in Sugarcreek Metro Park, Ohio, The first pioneers found western Ohio’s open tracts of warm season grasses and colorful summer wildflowers quite formidable. Dense seas of vegetation grew as tall as a person on horseback and the often wet conditions bred mosquitoes and other biting insects. Prairie was initially ignored for farming and development due to its lack of trees. The early thought was any land that didn’t support forest was infertile and not worth the time or effort to tame. Once that mindset was reversed and the prairie’s deep, rich black soil was bitten into by the steel plow, it wasn’t long before it had all but disappeared. Ohio Department of Natural Resources

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Our obliteration of the natural world’s habitats create ideal conditions for pathogens to emerge.