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John R. Platt

Golden-crowned Sparrow. (picaday / Getty Images)

Bird bias? New research reveals “drab” species are studied less

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View of Red Howler monkeys sitting on branch in forest, Catatumbo River, Venezuela. (Getty Images/simonkr)

How does habitat fragmentation harm wildlife?

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Red Winged Blackbird in Flight (Getty Images/Gail Shotlander)

Weather whiplash: How climate change killed thousands of migratory birds

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Forest landscape in the vicinity of Labé in March 2008, Guinea-Conakry (François GOUDIER/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Another dam(n) extinction: Another rare plant destroyed by a hydroelectric dam

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Ivory-billed woodpecker, Campephilus principalis, (aka "Lord God Bird") mounted specimen (Auscape/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The Lord God bird and dozens of other species declared extinct in 2021

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An illustration of two ivory billed wood pecker (Getty Images/Imagezoo)

Extinction: 23 gone, countless more to save

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(Texas Department of Transportation)

We need to talk about spider conservation

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Humpback Whale parent and calf (Getty Images)

Whales face new and emerging threats

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Townsend Warbler (Getty images)

Decolonizing species names

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This orchid, (Phragmipedium lindleyanum), found on top of the Grensgebergte mountain is rare in Suriname. (Trond Larsen)

What we’ve lost: the species declared extinct in 2020

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Medical workers load a patient from Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center into an ambulance while wearing masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) in Andover, New Jersey. After an anonymous tip to police, 17 people were found dead at the long-term care facility, including two nurses, where at least 76 patients and 41 staff members have tested positive for COVID-19. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

Where do we go from here?

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Sarah Pallin, Donald Trump (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/Brian Snyder/Shannon Stapleton/Photo montage by Salon)

7 environmental takeaways from the 2020 election season

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(Getty/liveslow)

The shocking number of snakes traded internationally each year

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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)

Hawaii’s invasive predator catastrophe

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Smoky Mountains in Tennessee (Getty/SeanPavonePhoto)

An “extinction hotspot” in Appalachia

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A tree sprouting in a forest (Getty Images)

Australian plant species face “imminent extinction” from invasive pathogen

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(AP Photo/Pat Sullivan,File)

An emerging threat to conservation: fear of nature

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(Mario Tizon / Getty Images)

Pesticides are killing off the Andean condor

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