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Polar sea ice continues steep decline; but will a troubled world notice?
7+ hour, 19+ min ago —...Bill Moyers, and co-founded Blue Ridge Press in 2007, a nationally... ...The just declared 2025 Arctic sea ice extent winter maximum is the... ...ice north of Greenland and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago to disappear... ...On March 22, 2025, Arctic sea ice likely reached its maximum extent...
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Researchers find new killifish species in Kenya
9+ hour, 41+ min ago —...for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium.... ...According to the study’s lead researcher, Dirk Bellstedt, professor... ...Dario Valenzano, a biologist who researches African killifish and... ...Titanium] mine requested that I assess the fish fauna in the Gongoni Forest...
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Famous bonobo Kanzi, known for smarts & gaming, dies at age 44
8+ hour, 35+ min ago —...Kanzi first learned to communicate with humans at Georgia State University... ...Upon hearing the news of Kanzi’s death, primatologist Jill Pruetz... ...Calvin via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).... ...Pruetz added that her favorite story about Kanzi was one where he...
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Exploring India, finding new species: Interview with biologist Zeeshan Mirza
12+ hour, 17+ min ago —...This UNESCO World Heritage Site harbors exceptional levels of species... ...A green pit viper named after Salazar Slytherin from Harry Potter... ...Mongabay’s Liz Kimbrough interviewed Zeeshan Mirza about his findings... ...threaten biodiversity and their habitats, not just in the Western Ghats...
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Netherlands’ largest forest biomass plant canceled, forest advocates elated
11+ hour, 43+ min ago —...“This is enormous,” said Fenna Swart, leader of the Clean Air Committee... ...Bill Moyers, and co-founded Blue Ridge Press in 2007, a nationally... ...Image courtesy of the Clean Air Committee in the Netherlands.... ...Fenna Swart protest the burning of forest biomass for energy outside...
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Colombia creates landmark territory to protect uncontacted Indigenous groups
1+ day, 1+ hour ago —...disturbances, Amazon Conservation Team said in the statement.... ...Part of it overlaps with Río Puré National Park and includes an adjacent... ...Park rangers were present in Río Puré National Park until 2019, when... ...Conservation Team spokesperson....
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Peru’s rare peatland swamps at risk as illegal gold mining expands
1+ day, 18+ hour ago —...In Madre de Dios, in southeastern Peru, […] Hidden within the Amazon... ...the Amazon, with the first ones in Madre de Dios only being officially... ...See related from this reporter: Mangroves at risk as El Salvador... ...the peatlands only accounts for 9% of all mining activity in Madre de...
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Devastating flood forces relocation of 10,000 tortoises at Madagascar sanctuary
1+ day, 11+ hour ago —...severely damaged Itampolo’s Lavavolo Tortoise Center, located in... ...’s Lavavolo Tortoise Center, located in Ampanihy on the southwest... ...Image courtesy of Tsanta Fiderana Rakotonanahary. ... ...Banner image: Rescue operation at the Lavavolo Tortoise Center....
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Manatees in peril as human pressures push gentle giants toward the brink
1+ day, 20+ hour ago —...coasts of the United States, the Caribbean and Central America,... ...and West Africa.... ...The International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies the... ...In the United States, regulatory protections are now being reconsidered...
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Expedition links Antarctic glacial melting to climate catastrophe in Brazil
1+ day, 15+ hour ago —...of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil.... ...Simões from the Polar and Climate Center at the Federal University... ...’s northernmost fringes, where Brazil’s Commander Ferraz Antarctic... ...Francisco Eliseu Aquino, who led the expedition’s climatology team...