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Canada is a land of unspoiled wilderness, right? Wrong
With all the unpopulated wilderness available in Canada, one might safely assume wildlife thrives there. Sadly, that is not the case any longer.
Earth 2100: prepare for a very different planet
Because of climate change, we should expect not only new species' composition but also a total reconfiguration of ecosystems in a few decades' time.
Snow leopards are hanging in there
Snow leopards continue to face a high risk of extinction in the wild but not at the rate previously thought.
The slaughter of elephants in Africa carries on unabated
“The scale of elephant poaching is by far the largest I have seen or read about in Africa to date,” says Mike Chase, director of the conservationist group Elephants Without Borders.
Destroying biodiversity will be our own undoing
We are losing biodiversity at a rate unprecedented in the entire history of the human species. Worse: we are the cause of it.
Butterfly wings could revolutionize optics and computing
A species of butterfly with iridescent metallic green wings can teach us a thing or two.