The Revelator - Environmental News and Commentary
Nov 8, 2024 · The Revelator, an environmental news and commentary initiative of the Center for Biological Diversity, provides editorially independent reporting, analysis and stories at the intersection of politics, conservation, art, culture, endangered species, climate change, economics and the future of wild species, wild places and the planet. MOST READ.
‘Like a Phoenix,’ A New Forest Emerges From the Destruction in …
2 days ago · November 12, 2024 - by Ruchi Kumar. A forest emerges in place of the Kakhovka Dam reservoir. Photo: Serhiiy Skoryk (used with permission) Russia’s bombing of Kakhovka Dam in 2023 killed hundreds of people and tens of thousands of animals, but it’s also provided a potential ecological reset. In the early hours of June 6, 2023, two large ...
12 New Environmental Books You Need to Read This Autumn
Oct 18, 2024 · Publishers have an impressive slate of environmental books lined up for release this autumn — even more than usual. Maybe that’s an indication of how bad our environmental problems have become, how many problems we face, and how hungry people are for solutions.. As the nights get longer and cooler, here are 12 noteworthy new books for readers to put at the top of their fall reading piles.
Species Spotlight: Bengal Floricans, Nearing Their Last Dance?
1 day ago · Bengal floricans have been listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2008 due to mounting threats to their grassland habitat and sharp population declines. The population in Cambodia is feared to have decreased by almost 80% in just three generations (30 years), putting the species among the most threatened bustards in the world.
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Expert Commentary. The Revelator welcomes engaging, thought-provoking, quality think pieces, op-eds and other contributions from activists, academics, scientists, policymakers, attorneys and other experts.. Our readers tend to be both educated about environmental issues and personally or professionally involved in them, so our commentaries speak to …
Welcome to The Revelator • The Revelator
May 17, 2017 · John R. Platt is the editor of The Revelator.An award-winning environmental journalist, his work has appeared in Scientific American, Audubon, Motherboard, and numerous other magazines and publications.His “Extinction Countdown” column has run continuously since 2004 and has covered news and science related to more than 1,000 endangered species.
Are Botanists Endangered? - The Revelator
Sep 23, 2024 · The definitive downward trend, though, remains in the number of U.S. institutions offering botany or plant biology degrees — from 76 in 2002 to 59 in 2023. “Botany Ph.D.’s are disappearing,” says Kathryn Parsley, who got her Ph.D. in biology, not botany, even though her dissertation focused on plants. “The number of botanists is ...
We Need More Protected Areas, But That’s Not All
August 8, 2022 - by Tara Lohan. As the world faces cascading extinctions and runaway climate change, a growing body of scientific research has found that we should set aside more areas as protected spaces. That message got hammered home by a study published in June in the National Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences that says current ...
We’re Protecting the Ocean Wrong
Jul 31, 2024 · It happens more often than you might think. A new study published in the Journal of Animal Ecology looked at 89 marine protected areas in Europe that are supposed to protect diadromous fish species (those that migrate between ocean and fresh water, like salmon or some eels) of conservation concern. Their findings are shocking: Many of these ...
Darwin the Storyteller • The Revelator
Oct 11, 2024 · Less than a decade after Darwin published Origin, the German naturalist Ernst Haeckel recognized that Darwin’s stories of interspecies communities constituted a subject so innovative it deserved a new name.He coined the word Oekologie to describe it. We now think of ecology as a science, a field whose rigor and objectivity separate it from the more personal, fanciful, and emotionally charged ...