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What Are the Rights of Nature?
Editor's notes: "A Washington state city has granted part of the Snohomish River watershed legal rights that can be enforced in court. In nearly all cases, state legislatures heavily lobbied by commercial industries have preempted the laws, rendering them...
Butterflies Declined by 22% in Just 2 Decades Across the US
Editor's note: "A study published in 2024 found that a change in insecticide use was a major factor in driving butterfly declines in the Midwest over 17 years. The authors, many of whom were also part of the current study, noted that the drop coincided with a shift to...
Birdsong Rings Out Once Again in Togo’s Sacred Forest of Titiyo
Editor's note: "A new study in Science indicates that reforestation projects, which restore degraded or destroyed forests, are the most effective land-based method for carbon removal and biodiversity protection. Meanwhile, the authors found that afforestation, in...
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In Alabama, a Fight for the Spotted Salamander
As a private university expands its footprint and threatens the amphibian’s habitat, residents are voicing their opposition and searching for another way forward. By Lee Hedgepeth April 10, 2025 This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit,...
A Wild Earth Day!
A Wild Earth Day! On April 22: Meet free-roaming bison and baby prairie dogs! Learn about oceans that need us and fires that don’t! ...
BOEM’s Unlawful Offshore Wind Approvals
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lisa Linowes (603) 838-6588 lisa@saverightwhales.org Save Right Whales Coalition Files Supreme Court Brief Challenging BOEM’s Unlawful Offshore Wind Approvals NEW HAMPSHIRE (April 14) — The Save Right Whales Coalition (SRWC) has...
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Cult of the Postmodern Left
Editor's note: "I think we’re in the midst of a collapse of civilization, and we’re definitely in the midst of the end of the American empire. And when empires start to fail, a lot of people get really crazy. In The Culture of Make Believe, I predicted the rise of the...
The Ball Comes to Rest
By Tom Murphy / Do the Math Surfing YouTube, I came across an interview of Ezra Klein by Stephen Colbert. He was promoting a new book called Abundance, basically arguing that scarcity is politically-manufactured by “both sides,” and that if we get our political act...
Microplastics are Blotting Out Photosynthesis
Editor's note: A new report that microplastics pollution is hampering photosynthesis in plants, and that the result is the loss of some 10% of the world's primary productivity, including food crops. We are now risking to blot out the planetary photosynthesis machine,...
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