Tag: wildlife
More than one billion animals killed in Australia wildfires called a...
Chris Dickman of the University of Sydney said “without any doubt at all” the animal death toll has exceeded one billion.
Our vanishing world: Wildlife
The human assault on life on Earth will reach its inevitable conclusion: the extinction of Homo sapiens.
Trump’s reckless push to drill in the Arctic is meeting fierce...
The Arctic Refuge is one of the U.S.’s last wild places, and the coastal plain is its biological heart.
We’re just starting to learn how fracking harms wildlife
In January 2015 North Dakota experienced one of the worst environmental disasters in its history: A pipeline burst, spilling nearly 3 million gallons...
Drought and border wall endanger Arizona’s wildlife
The public has long supported a state program to provide water for wildlife, but now human threats, including border-wall construction and climate change, are making a bad situation worse.
The federal government’s cruel war against wildlife
USDA’s Wildlife Services will no longer use “cyanide bombs” to kill animals, but that’s just one of the inhumane weapons in their arsenal.
We ignore thousands of threatened plant species at our own peril
Kokia drynarioides is a small but significant flowering tree endemic to Hawaii’s dry forests. Native Hawaiians used its large, scarlet flowers to...
Endangered wildlife are getting dosed with rat poisons
Products marketed to kill rodents are instead threatening the lives of the wildlife that eat them as poisons travel up the food chain.
Polar bear ‘invasion:’ How climate change is making human-wildlife conflicts worse
Unfortunately, climate change is only going to make these negative interactions between humans and wildlife more common.
Humanity has wiped out 60% of animal populations in the last...
We are the 'last generation' that can save our planet.
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‘You’ll see rebellion’: Sanders supporters denounce open threats by superdelegates to steal nomination
“The Democrats might be able to stop Sanders, but in doing so they would destroy their party’s own electoral prospects.”
Sanders campaign releases detailed answer as to how he will pay for his major...
“You know, if you look at the media, they say Bernie's ideas are radical, they're extreme, they're out of the mainstream,. Let me just tell you, I don't think that that's true.”
Cruel and unusual: Julian Assange’s extradition hearing begins
It’s a slippery slope and in a world of so-called ‘fake news’ could have negative consequences for journalists and whistle-blowers trying to speak truth to power far into the future.
How CEOs behave like closet socialists
To deal with the many challenges we face today, the democratic principle must be extended from the political realm to the economic.
New poll shows two-thirds of voters support a wealth tax to fight inequality
“There is growing concern about the influence large corporations and wealthy individuals have on American elections.”