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Rising coastal waters threaten salt-marsh sparrows
Tender hatchlings are prey to the rising tides. From the New York Times.
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Sea turtle deaths caused by plastic ingestion
A report in the scientific journal Nature indicates that ingestion of plastic debris increases turtle mortality.
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To Monitor Wildlife Poachers, Ecologists Poach Astronomers’ Tools
Animals and stars both emit heat. An exchange of ideas between two scientists in different fields has led to the recognition that software used to find stars and galaxies in space can be used to seek out thermal footprints and the animals that produce them. A report on findings presented at the European Week of…
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EPA Director questions whether global warming is necessarily a bad thing
In a TV interview, EPA Director Scott Pruitt says humans have flourished before in warm periods, and it's "arrogant for us to say that we know what [the ideal surface temperature] should be in 2100." Washington Post story is here.
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Global epidemic decline in animal populations part of ongoing sixth mass extinction
A New York Times article entitled, "Era of 'Biological Annihilation' is underway, scientists warn," summarizes a report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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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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Republicans want to make it harder to add a species to the endangered list
In the steady drip, drip, drip of Trump legislation threatening nature, survival, and the Great Society, Republicans in the House of Representatives have introduced a bill, HR 717, intended to weaken the Endangered Species Act. The bill, known as the Listing Reform Act of 2017, would amend the Endangered Species Act to require review of…
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IUCN publishes latest update of threatened species list
The IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) released a new update to its Red List of Threatened Species. The update includes the first assessments of various crops essential to food security, and includes the information that the global giraffe population has plummeted by 40% in the last 30 years. “Many species…
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