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  • California wildfires’ continuing impact on the ocean

    From article by Anna Baxter on the OCEANA website: “In January 2025, a series of devastating wildfires hit Southern California. Lives were lost. Homes and businesses were destroyed. Families were displaced. The scale of the devastation is staggering. But the damage doesn’t stop at the shoreline. This week, as Southern Californians are deluged with torrential…

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  • Vatican Conference on biological extinction sounds the alarm

    World scientists will gather next week to discuss the problem of resource consumption. The meeting aims to connect the dots between social behavior and ecosystem destruction.   Read the story in The Guardian.

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  • Was threat level to endangered species understated?

    This article in Science online reports on a study finding that the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species has misclassified the threats to hundreds of animals.

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  • Harder to adapt from a one-down position

    This article from Skeptical Science makes the point that not only is rapid climate change a threat to plant and animal forms that do not have time to adapt, but also the effect is increased by the fact that these forms of life are less resilient in the first place, with a "shifting baseline" of…

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