Biodiversity

"The Chesapeake Bay’s condition ticked upward in 2021 but not enough to raise its middling C grade in the latest report card from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science."

"“We can’t put this one back in the bottle,” said the researcher behind a recent study about the spread of zoonotic diseases."

"Climate change and rapid population growth are shrinking the lake, creating a bowl of toxic dust that could poison the air around Salt Lake City."

"Animals-turned-oceanographers are helping biologists find out what they do when they get to the cold, dark depths".

"Law professors say much of the buzz around a California court’s finding that bees meet the definition of fish missed the mark, and that the decision isn’t as unusual as it seems."

"A federal agency has delivered a big setback to a company’s controversial plan to mine near the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp and its vast wildlife refuge."

"Most widely used pesticide in history harms critical ability of bumblebee to regulate nest temperature".

"One ecologist counted 160 dead wild birds while walking round a Scottish loch, and figures from other countries are just as worrying".