Rallying Against Land Grabs at Bears Ears, Grand-Staircase Escalante
Greens are already fighting Trump’s new executive orders revoking protections on millions of acres within ten U.S. national monuments…
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Climate Friendly Farms: Agriculture Adapts to Global Warming
Farms and farmers across the U.S. are adopting climate-friendly practices to improve soil quality and save water as global warming kicks in…
Chernobyl Wildlife Thriving 30 Years Later
These days, wildlife is thriving around the site of the nuclear reactor meltdown at Chernobyl in the Ukraine three decades ago. Biologists say the lack of people in the “Exclusion Zone” thirty kilometers around reactor has made it easier for the animals that did survive — and their progeny — to now flourish.
Circus Elephants: A Thing of the Past for Ringling?
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey has transitioned its remaining circus elephants to a Florida-based facility focused on conservation, care and research…
Trophy Hunting: Good for Wildlife, Conservation?
Big game hunters insist that their hobby does a lot to spur conservation given the huge fees they pay to the countries that host them, but environmentalists aren’t so sure…
Conservation Genetics to the Rescue
Dear EarthTalk: How are scientists using DNA to conserve wildlife? — Jake Summerlin, Newark, NJ Traditionally, conservation biologists have relied on field observation and sample and statistical analysis to help them understand the dynamics behind species loss, but today genetics is taking on an increasingly important role in helping quantify the biodiversity around us and even […]
Is Private Land Conservation More Important Than Saving Our Parks?
Private property makes up about 60 percent of the total land base across the United States, and landowners are starting to do their part to protect the environment there.
Protecting Private Lands
Dear EarthTalk: While working to protect public land from resource extraction and development seems to be the focus of many environmental groups, what is being done to preserve and protect private property—the majority of our land—across the country?
Defender of the Seas
Captain Paul Watson, “Defender of the Seas,” Travels the World to Challenge Illegal Whaling and Fishing, and Whale Wars Captures the Action…
The Amazing Shrinking City
A controversial new school of urban planning known as “smart decline” calls for converting dilapidated urban areas into green spaces…