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We need to understand people if exotic pets are the problem
There’s long been concern about the exotic pet trade, but scientists don’t know as much as they’d like about the economic, social, and ecological factors that drive the trade – especially when it comes to people making decisions that lead
Climate change caused mass death among Alaskan puffins
In 2016 the bodies of several thousand tufted puffins washed up on the beaches of Saint Paul Island in Alaska.
Minnesota banks on protecting endangered bumblebee
In the northern Midwest state of Minnesota, the government has agreed to nearly $1 million in funding to pay residents to tear out their lawns and plant gardens in the hopes of saving an endangered bumblebee. The money will cover
Sumatran rhinos are a step closer to extinction
Only a single captive rhino is now left in Malaysia, where the animals once roamed.
UV lights may prevent fatal bird collisions with power lines
There’s a promising new technology to help protect crane species around the world, and the solution to reducing their midflight accident deaths may be as simple as shining UV lights on the power lines that are killing them. That’s according
Chicago’s TrashBot will clean river as a remote control game
Views on part of the Chicago River looked different after the nonprofit Urban Rivers installed its first floating garden in 2017, part of a broader rewilding effort of the manmade channel in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. Much has been done