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Please Silence Your Sonar

Latest NewsWest, United StatesBrian Palmer
The U.S. Navy agrees to give marine mammals off California and Hawaii a break from deafening noise.

Want to Collect Some Whale Snot?

Latest NewsUnited StatesBrian Palmer
Here’s your chance to contribute to an exciting—albeit slightly gross—new form of whale research.

Remember the Kalamazoo

DispatchMichiganBrian Palmer
Five years ago, a pipeline spilled a million gallons of tar sands crude into a Michigan river—and we’re still cleaning it up.

Dead Bear Walking

Latest NewsArcticBrian Palmer
Will “walking hibernation” help polars bears survive climate change?

Bumbling Toward Extinction

Latest NewsUnited StatesBrian Palmer
Bumblebees risk extinction by failing to react to climate change.

The Bearded Ladies

Latest NewsUnited StatesBrian Palmer
Climate change may eliminate male bearded dragons.

Franken-Coral?

Latest NewsUnited StatesBrian Palmer
A new study suggests that creative interbreeding could save coral from extinction.

Out of Africa

Latest NewsUnited StatesBrian Palmer
The U.S. government classifies all chimpanzees as endangered, after 40 years of stalling.

Angry Birds

Latest NewsUnited StatesBrian Palmer
The GOP attacks a venerable bird protection law in the name of wind energy.

Let the Bustards Be

Latest NewsUnited StatesBrian Palmer
A new study says captive breeding programs often do endangered species more harm than good.

Ready, Fire, Aim

Latest NewsUnited StatesBrian Palmer
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is killing thousands of cormorants without even considering the ethics.

Sea Change

Latest NewsUnited StatesBrian Palmer
Global warming could condense three million years of changes in the oceans into less than one century.