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Urban hawks take flight on New York’s Upper West Side 0
Posted 1 week, 2 days ago
Reason No. 137 that I love commuting by bike in New York City: I get to watch baby hawks go to flight school.
Would you like frogs with that?

Frogs in the forest: the new canaries in the coal mine 4
Posted 1 week, 3 days ago
Today Grist devoured frogs for lunch -- well, not exactly. We sat down with conservation biologist Dr. Kerry Kriger of the newly minted nonprofit Save the Frogs! on his stop in Seattle during a country-wide speaking tour. As one of the lone voices raising the alarm for amphibians, Kriger dished about the worst disease ever to hit wildlife, why it's such a big deal that one-third of amphibians are threatened with extinction, and just how many people actually are having frogs for lunch.
About those howls you're hearing...

Wolf delisting takes effect today 1
Posted 2 months ago
Wolf-people, give a howl for your lupine brethren, who lose federal protection under the Endangered Species Act in much of the northern Rocky Mountains and upper Midwest today.
The bear’s a necessity

The wolf and the polar bear 13
Posted 2 months ago
On Monday, gray wolves in Montana, Idaho, and parts of other northern states left the endangered species list. Later this week, the Obama administration will make a critical decision on how to protect polar bears under the Endangered Species Act.
Playing frogger with the climate

Happy Save the Frogs Day 0
Posted 2 months ago
Frogs and other amphibian species are collapsing like the global financial system. Find out why climate activists should save the frogs.
Furadan shame

U.S. corporation poisoning Africa’s lions 0
Posted 3 months ago
60 Minutes had an extraordinary piece by Bob Simon this weekend on how U.S. poison manufacturer FMC is exporting Furadan to Kenya, where it's being used to poison lions, leading to an 85 percent drop in their population.
Czange we can believe in

Salmon czar could coordinate better protection, rule over peasant salmon 1
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Because nothing signals a democracy on the mend like a profusion of czars, salmon defenders are now calling for a federal salmon czar.
The last American jaguar doesn’t have to be the last 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Urgent letter from Bo Webb on Coal River 1
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
Canada loves ducks, fines oil company 2
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
MacArthur Foundation to fund climate change adaptation network 0
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Movement for metro pollinators spreading 17
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Scientists find source of gregarious behavior (in grasshoppers) 1
Posted 4 months, 4 weeks ago
New travel and cooking shows valorize the very practices destroying frogs and other living things 4
Posted 5 months ago
In which industry conquers nature 3
Posted 5 months ago
Report shows that feds have failed to protect marine mammals, even though it’s required by law 2
Posted 5 months ago
Unnaturalism

Images of an evolving world by artist Don Simon 8
Posted 5 months ago
A letter to Science ponders what $700 billion could do for the natural world 1
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
How often do natural and unnatural flights collide? 7
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
One thousand new species discovered this decade 0
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago