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Topic: Biodiversity (page 2)

Atlantic Salmons in a river (Getty Images)

Salmon farming’s dirty business

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Officials from Para State, northern Brazil, inspect a deforested area in the Amazon rain forest during surveillance in the municipality of Pacaja, 620 km from the capital Belem, on September 22, 2021. (EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images)

Why we need more protected areas

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
This picture taken on October 18, 2018 shows newborn green turtles heading to the sea after being released from a protected area on Thameehla Island. - Peril plagues the young life of a baby turtle in Myanmar; if the crabs don't get them before they scramble from the beach to the sea, poachers or fishing trawlers may do - while habitat destruction also decimates their numbers. Myanmar's waters boast five of the world's seven sea turtle species, including the critically endangered hawksbill, the endangered green turtle as well as the olive ridley, leatherback and loggerhead turtles, all listed as vulnerable. (Photo by Ye Aung THU / AFP) / PHOTO ESSAY by Ye Aung THU (Photo credit should read YE AUNG THU/AFP/Getty Images) (Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images))

Mass extinctions threaten Earth's future

Matthew Rozsa
Amazon rainforest, Brazil (Getty Images)

Biodiversity and climate change solution

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
An illustration of the extinct giant ground sloth Megalonyx slowing mmaking his way through an Ice Age Ohio forest. (Getty Images/Aunt_Spray)

Life evolving far faster than we thought

Matthew Rozsa
Dense coastal redwood Sequoia sempervirens forest in Redwood National Park California showing fallen tree that has become a nurse log for new plant growth, Redwood National Park in northern California near Eureka California. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Conservation potential of roadless areas

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
A young woman is standing in a forest at sunset (Getty Images)

Biden's bill will help save biodiversity

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
A sad fish (Getty Images)

Swimming in a sea of drug residue

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Bleached coral on the Great Barrier Reef outside Cairns Australia during a mass bleaching event, thought to have been caused by heat stress due to warmer water temperatures as a result of global climate change. (Getty Images/Brett Monroe Garner)

Climate change decimates ocean ecosystem

Sam Purkis - The Conversation
A burned residence smolders during the Bear fire, part of the North Lightning Complex fires, in unincorporated Butte County, California on September 09, 2020. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

New book debunks myths about wildfires

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
(Ty Mecham / Food52)

Why native plants are best

Nadia Hassani - Food52
Bleached coral on the Great Barrier Reef outside Cairns Australia during a mass bleaching event, thought to have been caused by heat stress due to warmer water temperatures as a result of global climate change. (Getty Images/Brett Monroe Garner)

The next major extinction event is here

Matthew Rozsa
(Texas Department of Transportation)

We need to discuss spider conservation

John R. Platt - The Revelator
(Leonardo Carrato/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

The importance of private lands

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
A sad fish (Getty Images)

Fish are gobbling up plastic

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Alabama Mobile River (Getty Images)

Too late to save "America’s Amazon"?

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Aerial view of a deforested area in the municipality of Melgaco, Para State, Brazil, on July 30, 2020. (TARSO SARRAF/AFP via Getty Images)

"Our planet is sending alarm signals"

Matthew Rozsa
People work at the construction site of Chahe grand bridge of the Kunming-Chuxiong expressway in southwest China's Yunnan Province, April 28, 2020. (Xinhua/Yang Zongyou via Getty Images)

On climate change & infectious diseases

Abrahm Lustgarten - ProPublica
FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2015 image made from video, an endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtle swims as it is released into the Gulf of Mexico, 24 miles off the coast of Louisiana, after being rehabilitated by the Audubon Institute. After the spill, the number of the turtles' nests dropped 40 percent in one year in 2010. "We had never seen a drop that dramatic in one year before," according to Selina Saville Heppell, a professor at Oregon State University. The population climbed in 2011 and 2012 but then fell again in 2013 and 2014, down to levels that haven't been that low in nearly a decade, she said. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) (AP)

Freshwater species are disappearing fast

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
(AP Photo/Pat Sullivan,File)

An emerging threat to conservation

John R. Platt - The Revelator
Waorani men and women participate in an assembly in ancestral Waorani territory, Pastaza, Ecuadorian Amazon. (Amazon Frontlines)

Fighting for our future

Mitch Anderson - Truthout
A picture taken on July 4, 2019 shows bees collecting nectar on a sunflower in a field in Weisskirchen, Germany. (Boris Roessler/AFP/Getty Images)

Who is most at risk on a warming planet?

Miyo McGinn - Grist
Ta'Kaiya Blaney is a 15 year old student from the Tla'Amin First Nation on Vancouver Island, in BC, Canada. (Disney)

Indigenous hunters: Protecting the earth

Mylène Ratelle, Jeffrey Fabian - The Conversation
Kokia drynarioides, commonly known as Hawaiian tree cotton, is a species of flowering plant endemic to Hawaii that is critically threatened due to habitat loss and competition with invasive species. (David Eickhoff/Wikmedia Commons)

Earth's plant species are in peril

Lorraine Chow - Truthout
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