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Louisiana’s $2-Billion Gamble: Flood the Land to Save the Coast

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BATON ROUGE, La.—After Hurricane Ida slammed into the Louisiana coast in August 2021, it took more than 100 lives and cost billions of dollars in damage. To some here, the storm was just one more justification for a desperate measure to preserve the coast by intentionally flooding parts of the state. “I don’t mean to be … Read more

Mother jaguars may flirt to save their cubs’ lives | Science

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It was almost Valentine’s Day 2020, and love was in the air—jaguar love, that is. A pair of the spotted big cats tumbled in the grass, sending throaty mating growls through the grasses of Hato La Aurora Nature Reserve in Colombia’s tropical savanna region. When wildcat ecologist Diana Stasiukynas of the big cat conservation philanthropy … Read more

Vets Race to Save Endangered Birds Caught in Oil Spill Off The Coast of Peru

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A Lima zoo is racing to save dozens of seabirds, including protected penguins, left covered in oil after 6,000 barrels of crude spilled off Peru’s coast in the aftermath of the Tonga tsunami.   More than 40 birds, including Humboldt penguins – listed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature – were brought … Read more

These simple green lights could save sharks and turtles from fishing nets | Science

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An inky, tentacled squid stuck in a net can be a messy problem for a fisher. And for a loggerhead turtle or a diamond stingray, getting tangled in a net often means death. Now, new research offers hope: It shows that affixing green light-emitting diode (LED) lights to fishing nets significantly reduces the catch of … Read more

UK Net Zero Strategy: Government still won’t say how much CO2 its plan will save

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For the third time, the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has refused a request to release key details about its Net Zero Strategy Environment 21 January 2022 By Adam Vaughan Climate protesters in Glasgow, UK, in November 2021 Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images The UK government has declined for a third time to … Read more

In a conservation first, a cloned ferret could help save her species | Science

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Last month, at a conservation center near Fort Collins, Colorado, staffers held an unusual birthday party, complete with a two-tiered cake made of prairie dog and mouse carcasses, minced meat, and kibble. The recipient of the macabre cake was a small, weasellike animal named Elizabeth Ann. She is the world’s first cloned black-footed ferret, one … Read more

Drone discount: Save $52 on the Holy Stone HS720 on Amazon

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Amazon is offering a whopping $52 off the Holy Stone HS720, a great drone for video and photo capture that’s also ideal for inexperienced flyers.  The Holy Stone HS720 is a drone that comes with a number of user friendly features including GPS assisted flight, a camera with image stabilization and long lasting batteries. In … Read more

Sucking DNA Out of The Sky Could Help Us to Identify And Save Endangered Species

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The air around us carries detectable traces of animals living in our midst, scientists have found, and the discovery stands to revolutionize the way researchers monitor and track populations of vulnerable or endangered species.   In two new studies conducted by separate teams of scientists, researchers discovered that environmental DNA (eDNA) shed by living creatures … Read more

Peatlands in peril: The race to save the bogs that slow climate change

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By Alasdair Lane Finnish peat bogs that were drained for forestation are now being restored Jani Riekkinen/EyeEm via Getty Images LIKE much of Europe, Finland was left economically bereft by the second world war. It needed to ramp up productivity fast and the government decided the answer was forestry, the country’s industrial backbone for generations. Vast … Read more