Tag: Conservation
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...
Marine park review looks set to repeat past mistakes
By Lauren Butterly, Australian National University and Benjamin Richardson, University of Tasmania
In June 2012 the Labor government announced the “world’s largest” system of marine...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
