Delegates meeting in Canada, aiming to halt a dangerous decline in biodiversity, agreed on a deal to place 30 percent of the planet under protection.
Tag: Endangered and Extinct Species
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No One Wants to Say ‘Put Down That Burger.’ But We Really Should.
If current eating and farming trends continue, the world will clear at least one and a quarter more Indias worth of land by 2050.
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Those Adorable Endangered Creatures Are Not the Point
We treat conservation as an altruistic pursuit — a special interest championed by a passionate few — but it’s also a selfish cause.
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Can Australia Save a Rare Reptile by Moving It to a Cooler Place?
An experiment to preserve the western swamp tortoise is the latest flash point in a debate over how far humans should go to protect nature as the world warms.
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A Penguin-Like Shape May Have Helped This Dinosaur Dive
The duck-size animal’s body was streamlined for pursuing prey underwater, researchers say. Other paleontologists say more work is needed to confirm the finding.