Coming Soon Near You: Bears
Steps away from the public restrooms in Yosemite Village, a buzzy stop in Yosemite National Park’s iconic valley, sits a brown metal dumpster. Visitors reach up to open the trash …
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Wild Donkeys Are on the Vanguard of Ukraine’s Ecological Recovery
The war, unsurprisingly, has made conservation a lot harder. Oleg Dyakov, a rewilding officer from Rewilding Ukraine’s head office in Odesa and one of the organization’s cofounders, recounts the hazards …
Why These Surfers Want to Restore a Rainforest
Hometree’s restoration effort, says Ó Foghlú, will be based on the advice of ecologists and foresters. But the tentative vision is to return pine forests to the upper slopes of …
Ticks and the Diseases They Carry Are Spreading. Can This Drug Stamp Them Out?
Back to the study. The Connecticut group chose a site where they could monitor a small, contained deer herd: a peninsula jutting into Long Island Sound where the property surrounding …
The Snow Crab Vanishes | WIRED
“If we’ve lost the ice, we’ve lost the 2-degree water,” Michael Litzow, shellfish assessment program manager with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told me. “Cold water, it’s their niche—they’re …
The Microplastic Crisis Is Getting Exponentially Worse
Not even the Arctic Ocean is immune to the incessant growth of microplastic pollution. In a new study that analyzed sediment core samples, researchers quantified how many of the particles …
When the Woods Get Noisy, the Animals Get Nervous
This story originally appeared in High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The first grainy film clip shows a black bear exploding out of the trail …