Tag: ecosystem
Sea otters restore degraded California estuary, slowing erosion by 90 percent
One of the big reasons for the recovery is that sea otters love to eat the marsh crabs who were devouring the coastal ecosystem’s plants.
Is Earth close to ‘the great dying’?
The climate emergency is here. We can’t wait any longer for major and dramatic worldwide action.
More than 800 tons of agricultural pesticides leach into world’s rivers...
Agricultural pesticides leach into the world’s rivers and oceans each year at an alarming rate, damaging a variety of ecosystems.
Endangered red wolf pups born in wild for first time in...
“This new litter is the first wild-born litter of red wolves since 2018."
The impact of ecotourism on sustainable initiatives
The industry’s primary goal is to preserve these environments so humanity can appreciate them for generations to come. However, it might hurt more than it helps.
Links from the brink: 8 good environmental news stories you might...
Hard work and persistence can pull us back from the brink just as greed and indifference can push us toward it.
Infrastructure for insects: Congress should invest in bees and butterflies
Providing diverse, healthy habitat will meet a long-neglected need for the thousands of native pollinators in the country.
Move or change: How plants and animals are trying to survive...
Thor Hanson’s new book explains the biology behind climate change and why some species may be better able to survive a quickly changing planet.
Coral disease spreading in Caribbean linked to wastewater from ships
Since the identification of the disease off Virginia Key in 2014, it has spread to the Caribbean, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Saint Maarten and Mexico.
Nearly all Chinook Salmon in Sacramento River expected to be killed...
"It's an extreme set of cascading climate events pushing us into this crisis situation."
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Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Speeding up the ‘kill chain’: Pentagon bombs thousands of targets in Iran using Palantir...
The system, known as Project Maven, relies on technology by Palantir and also incorporates the AI model Claude built by Anthropic. Israel has used similar AI targeting programs in Iran, as well as in Gaza and Lebanon.
Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
Searching for solace in a nuclearized world
The nightmare of Fukushima 15 years later.
Big Oil profits surge as Democrats push windfall tax tied to Iran war
Lawmakers and advocacy groups propose taxing fossil fuel windfalls as war-driven price spikes hit American households and deepen inequality.