Tag: Conservation
Coastal protection on the edge: The challenge of preserving California’s legacy
Gary Griggs, University of California, Santa Cruz and Charles Lester, University of California, Santa Cruz
The California coast is an edge. It’s the place where...
Interior Secretary Zinke invokes Teddy Roosevelt as model, but his public...
John Freemuth, Boise State University
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s recommendations to shrink four national monuments and allow fossil fuel development activities on others is just...
Human noise pollution is disrupting parks and wild places
Rachel Buxton, Colorado State University
As transportation networks expand and urban areas grow, noise from sources such as vehicle engines is spreading into remote places....
Giraffes are in trouble – the US Endangered Species Act can...
Federico Cheever, University of Denver and Annecoos Wiersema, University of Denver
On April 19 of this year, five major wildlife protection groups petitioned...
Will optimistic stories get people to care about nature?
Diogo Veríssimo, Georgia State University
Nature doesn’t make the news often these days. When it does, the story usually revolves around wildlife on...
Sea turtle ‘hitchhikers’ could play an important role in conservation<
Nathan Jack Robinson, Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne
Many ancient cultures once believed that the world rested on the back of a giant sea turtle....
The trouble with using synthetic rhino horn to stop poaching
Diogo Veríssimo, Georgia State University
In 2014, one rhino was killed every eight hours. That was in South Africa alone, where most of the world’s...
Confucian thought and China’s environmental dilemmas
By Ian Matthew Miller, Harvard University and George Yin, Harvard University
Conventional wisdom holds that China - the world’s most populous country - is an...
EXPLORING NATURE
Giant ground sloths’ fossilized teeth reveal their unique roles in the...
Larisa R. G. DeSantis, Vanderbilt University and Aditya Reddy Kurre, University of Pennsylvania
A two-toed sloth at the...
