Tag: wildlife
The big threat of fences across the West
The American West contains 620,000 miles of fencing, threatening the migration of pronghorn, mule deer and other species.
A Victorian logging company just won a controversial court appeal. Here’s...
The ruling means logging is set to resume, despite the threats it poses to wildlife.
Wildlife trafficking: 10 things everyone needs to know
These crimes threaten tens of thousands of species around the world, causing extinctions, hurting people and spreading disease.
20,000 ton oil spill in Russian Arctic has ‘catastrophic consequences’ for...
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world.
Kangaroos are victims of the world’s largest commercial slaughter of terrestrial...
Importing kangaroo meat and skins must be banned in the EU, but Americans can also help protect this iconic species.
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.