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Colorado Finally Got Its Wolves Back. Why Are So Many Dying?

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This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a sunny morning two years ago, a group of state officials stood in the mountains of northwestern Colorado in front of a handful of large metal crates. With a small crowd watching them, the officials began to unlatch the […]

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Colorado Finally Got Its Wolves Back. Why Are So Many Dying?

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This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a sunny morning two years ago, a group of state officials stood in the mountains of northwestern Colorado in front of a handful of large metal crates. With a small crowd watching them, the officials began to unlatch the […]

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To Save Madagascar’s One-of-a-Kind Ecosystems, You Have to Feed the People First

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This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.  The coral reef itself was exquisite. Growing about 3 miles offshore in 50 feet of water, it was a rugged terrain of pinks, blues, and oranges, set against a backdrop of deep blue. The coral pieces, each a colony of […]

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Jane Goodall’s Final, Urgent, Message

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This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Jane Goodall, one of the most influential environmental figures in human history, has died at 91 while doing what she’s done for most of her later years—touring the country to deliver an urgent message about nature and human existence. Goodall, who […]

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See the Bizarre Life Forms Scientists Found More Than 31,000 Feet Under the Ocean Surface

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This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Titanic lies about 12,500 feet under the ocean surface. The pressure down there is so immense that even submersibles supposedly built for those conditions can, as we know, tragically fail. Now imagine taking a sub nearly three times deeper. That’s […]

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Is Your Hummingbird Feeder a Lifeline or a Death Trap?

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Hummingbirds run on sugar. Sweet nectar powers their tiny, furious bodies and super-fast wings, which beat as many as 80 to 90 times per second. And luckily for them, they don’t seem to get diabetes, even though they have extremely high blood glucose levels. In the wild, hummingbirds, the smallest birds in the world, get their […]

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Team Trump is Poised to Kill a Critical Program It Likely Knows Nothing About

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This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Nearly two decades ago, scientists made an alarming discovery in upstate New York: Bats, the world’s only flying mammal, were becoming infected with a new, deadly fungal disease that, in some cases, could wipe out an entire colony in a matter of […]

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Trump May Loathe Wind Energy, But This Red State Loves It

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This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If you drive across Iowa, you’ll probably notice two things aside from the many farms: Trump signs and wind turbines. Iowa is Trump country. While the state was once considered politically purple, it decisively supported President Donald Trump in 2016, in 2020, and […]

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