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African Wild Dogs Are the First Heat-Adapted Species Shown to Be Suffering from Climate Change
Polar bears struggling to find the ice floes they need for hunting and survival became the icon of climate change and our rapidly warming planet decades ago. And we’ve often heard how hotter temperatures
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Losing Wildlife Hurts Biodiversity—and Our Bottom Lines
Wildlife tourism—tourism specifically based on encounters with undomesticated animals—accounts for 20 to 40 percent of the total $1 trillion annual, global tourism industry. This comes from a paper published in late 2015 in the
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Larsen Ice Shelf Breakoff: Our Future in Ice
A gigantic iceberg has just broken off from Antarctica’s massive Larsen C Ice Shelf. The berg began its independent life sometime in the middle of July 2017. And it’s huge. The 2,200-square-mile iceberg weighs a
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Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Grizzly Bears Just Lost Federal Protections
Later this month, in late July 2017, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bears outside Yellowstone National Park and nearby Grand Teton National Park will lose their Endangered Species List protections. Jurisdiction over the bears will
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Climate Change Action Figures: Our Governors and Mayors
The United States has officially left the Paris Agreement on climate change, the 2015 pact in which more than 150 nations pledged to curb greenhouse gas emissions and support the plans of poor countries in developing
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Video: A Concrete Solution for Fighting Climate Change
There’s a song I think of every July. It’s titled “Summer in the City,” and it was recorded by The Lovin’ Spoonful way back in 1966. Some of the lyrics go like this: “Hot town,
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