WASHINGTONPOST (Casey Parks) - After massive die-off of sea stars, biologist sees a surprising ‘baby boom’
Sea stars almost went extinct along the West Coast a decade ago. Recently, they have been making a comeback.
REDSTATE (Ward Clark) - Wyoming’s Golden Eagles Now Facing Extinction Risk From Wind Farms
NYTIMES (Hilary Howard) - This Rugged New York Heron Is Suddenly Facing Extinction. Why?
Black-crowned night herons could go the way of the passenger pigeon, vanishing from the city. Why remains a mystery.
NYTIMES (Laura Chung) - The New Zealand Parakeet Pair That Are Saving Their Species
There are about 450 orange-fronted parakeets left in the world. Super breeders Nacho and Trixie are doing their best to bolster the population.
NYTIMES (Ephrat Livni) - Crested Ibises Get the Royal Treatment in Japan as They Fly Again
Once widespread in Japan, the colorful birds went from being fairly commonplace in the country to being on the verge of extinction.
NPR (Nathan Rott) - Inside the effort to save one of America's most imperiled salamanders
When a species is facing extinction, it takes an enormous human effort to stave it off. Case in point: the painstaking campaign to save the frosted flatwoods salamander.
NYTIMES (Catrin Einhorn) - A Very Lonely Caterpillar, Possibly the Last of Its Kind, Has Died
The Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly hasn’t been seen in the wild since 2022. The caterpillar was the last individual in human care.
NYTIMES (Hiroko Tabuchi) - E.P.A. Clears a Weedkiller, Saying It Won’t Push Species to Extinction
The finding effectively paves the way for continued use of atrazine, a widely used herbicide that has been linked to birth defects and cancer in humans.
NEWSCATS - Is Antarctica Melting?
Image: 46 IPCC Scientists Break Rank, Publicly Challenge Long-Standing Dogmatic Climate Claims Related: Drago (the Climate Agenda) gets cut by Rocky New Study: Declining Trends In 1980-2023 Tropical Cyclone Frequency, Accumulated Energy – Another anthropogenic [...]
NPR (Manuel Rueda) - Colombia's rogue hippos could find refuge in India
In Colombia, a plan to cull Pablo Escobar's invasive hippos is challenged by an Indian billionaire's offer to relocate dozens of the animals to India's wildlife reserve instead.