Nearly 1,000 acres of tallgrass prairie will be preserved with Ørsted’s gift to The Nature Conservancy PARIS, Texas , Jan. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ – Today, Ørsted, a leading clean energy company, announced a collaboration with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to protect almost 1,000 acres of native prairie in northeast Texas .Continue Reading
While Brazil attracts more attention, deforestation is also substantial in the Peruvian Amazon, where forest clearing is on the rise. Carolina Andrade and Robert Muggah of Igarapé Institute, a Brazil-based think tank, write that “the scale and breadth of the assault” currently underway in Peru’s rainforest is “unprecedented”. They chalkContinue Reading
Gregory Andrews was Australia’s first threatened species commissioner, appointed in 2013 by the then incoming Coalition environment minister Greg Hunt. He recently returned to the country, after serving as high commissioner to Ghana, and was disheartened by what he found. Andrews believes the state of the country’s natural wildlife andContinue Reading
The pileup of work that remains from last year, according to three people who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not approved to speak publicly, comes as the tax agency struggles to hire and train new staff, and respond to growing bipartisan pressure from lawmakers and taxContinue Reading
The giant sequoias of California are some of the largest, oldest trees on Earth. Stretching 100 metres to the sky, some have a girth that could only be spanned by 20 friends holding hands. But in the last two years, fierce wildfires in California have killed an unprecedented number of these endangeredContinue Reading
Some plants and animals love fire. Others do not. Science will help figure out which areas to burn, which to hose, and how to create resilient ecosystems. The giant sequoias of California are some of the largest, oldest trees on Earth. Stretching 100 meters to the sky, someContinue Reading
The federal government tried to stop the publication of an academic paper that found it needed to drastically increase its spending on threatened Australian wildlife. Internal documents released to Guardian Australia under freedom of information laws show senior officials in the federal environment department spent months pressuring the scientists fromContinue Reading
Plastic drink bottles, disposable utensils and balloons are among the most deadly items. Plastic in the ocean can be deadly for marine wildlife and seabirds around the globe, but our latest study shows single-use plastics are a bigger threat to endangered albatrosses in the southern hemisphere than we previously thought. You may have heardContinue Reading
