Birds on Broadway: A Q&A with the Audubon Mural Project’s Avi Gitler
Naturalist and painter John James Audubon published Birds of America in the 19th century. Audubon had set out to paint every bird in North America, and the book contained 435…
Author: Mike Gaworecki
Audio: The true story of how 96 critically endangered sea turtle hatchlings survived New York City
On this episode, the true story of how 96 critically endangered sea turtles survived a New York City beach — with a little help from some dedicated conservationists and scientists.…
Brazilian regulators deny French oil giant Total license to drill near Amazon Reef
Brazil’s environmental regulatory agency, Ibama, announced last Friday that it was denying French oil company Total license to drill for oil near the Amazon Reef. The reef system, discovered off…
Graphic video reveals brutality of pangolin poaching in northeast India
Hunters in India are helping supply the illegal pangolin trade, and new research that probes their motivations might point to measures that can reduce the poaching and sale of the…
Climate’s last stand: Why Extinction Rebellion protesters are breaking the law (commentary)
“A 4 degrees C future is incompatible with an organized global community,” climate and energy professor Kevin Anderson once told Grist. Even if we cut emissions by 3.5 percent a…