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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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Salmon stock disruptions linked to marine heat waves
Researchers in Alaska are trying to understand warming ocean's consequences for salmon. Washington Post story.
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Ecuador protecting marine life in Galapagos
Washington Post article: "On Friday, the government of Ecuador announced it will curb fishing in more than 20,000 square miles of ocean to the northeast of the archipelago, in essence erecting guardrails around an underwater animal freeway between the Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands and Costa Rica’s Cocos Island."
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COVID confusion —>Climate change —>Mass migration —>Increased world conflict
Quadrennial Global Trends Report of the National Intelligence Council. It's hard to think of a headline more stark than the one in the Washington Post: "Intelligence forecast sees a post-coronavirus world upended by climate change and splintering societies."
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Mediterranean red coral at risk
The red coral of the Mediterranean, critical to the region's ecosystem, is threatened by illegal coral harvesting as well as by heat waves. Story in The Atlantic magazine.
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Government will not protect endangered monarch butterfly
The monarch population has fallen by 75% percent in the past three decades. Although monarchs qualify for protection under the Endangered Species Act, federal officials say budgetary constraints cause them to ignore the butterfly in favor of higher-priority endangered species. NY Times story here. Organizations around the country are working to save the monarch butterfly.…
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In certain dangerous hotspots around the world, climate change is proceeding at unprecedented, extra-rapid pace
Washington Post story with graphics.
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As humans hunker down in social isolation, some animals roam more freely
Articles: World Economic Forum Washington Post
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Endangered bumblebees
Climate change could spell the coup de grace for bumblebees. From the New York Times.
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Australia wildfires increasing extinctions
Washington Post article detailing the animals killed in Australia's current fires.
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Extinction: New analysis indicates 29% fewer birds in U.S. and Canada now than there were in 1970
New York Times report on shocking findings reported in Science journal: 29 million fewer birds than there were fifty years ago.
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New rules will weaken Endangered Species Act
Critical habitat protections will be diminished. NPR report: "In a move that critics say will hurt plants, animals and other species as they face mounting threats, the Trump administration is making major changes to how the Endangered Species Act is implemented….."
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UN report lists one million plant and animal species on verge of extinction
Article in the Washington Post.
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“Extinction rebellion” protests against climate change
Around the world, over 1000 people were arrested. Washington Post story.
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A moving depiction of the consequences of glacial melting on the natural world
NYT interactive story.
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Past global warming led to mass extinction
NYT article about how global warming caused the wipeout of most life on Earth, 252 million years ago
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Climate change causing huge loss in tropical insect invertebrate population
The Washington Post reports on a "hyperalarming" study showing dramatic loss of insects in pristine American tropical forest. The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Post story notes that 35% of the world's plant crops require pollination by bees, wasps and other animals, so that if pollinators go…
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