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The Tiny Ocean Organisms That Could Help the Climate in a Big Way

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Some of the littlest organisms in the ocean wield incredible influence, both on their ecosystems and on the planet. Like plants do on land, phytoplankton absorb sunlight and carbon dioxide and expel oxygen. They process so much of those two gases, […]

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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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Musician Uses Moths’ Flight Data to Compose a Piece About Their Decline

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. They are vital pollinators who come out at night, but now moths have emerged into the bright light of day as co-creators of a new piece of music—composed using the insects’ own flight data. Ellie Wilson composed Moth x Human in a protected […]

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The Collapse of the World’s Coral Reefs is “Death by a Thousand Cuts”

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Kenyan marine ecologist David Obura is chair of a panel of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the world’s leading natural scientists. For many decades, his speciality has been corals, but he has warned that the […]

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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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Republicans Want to Ban Pets From Domestic Violence Shelters

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A new Trump-backed attack on domestic violence services just dropped—and this time, it’s targeting survivors’ pets. Tucked inside the 1,200-page appendix to the White House’s budget request to Congress is a proposal to eliminate a grant program, funded by the Agriculture Department and administered by the Department of Justice, that provides domestic violence shelters with […]

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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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Bird Populations Are Declining Across North America

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Bird populations across North America are falling most quickly in areas where they are most abundant, according to new research, prompting fears of ecological collapse in previously protected areas. Analysis of nearly 500 bird species across North America has found that […]

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Missing Lynx: How the Rise of Border Walls Has Divided Wildlife Populations

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The lynxes of the Białowieża forest once freely prowled through 548 square miles of ancient woodland. Then, in 2022, the habitat was abruptly sliced in two. Poland built a 115-mile wall across its border with Belarus to stop refugees and migrants […]

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Anatomy of an Extinction

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Late in September, as Hurricane Helene struck the Southeast, Wally Smith immediately thought of the salamanders. Of course, he fretted over the safety of his parents, brother, and extended family in the path of the storm in the north Georgia mountains, but he couldn’t help but worry about the amphibians in harm’s way, too. As […]

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