Natural Resources

"A comprehensive review of dodo science offers new insights into the biology and behavior of the much-ridiculed bird."

"A new study suggests osprey chicks are starving in parts of the Chesapeake Bay because of a lack of menhaden, a primary source of food but also a major industry."

"Move over Moby Dick. Big Mama, the first humpback whale to have returned to the North Pacific's Salish Sea after decades of absence, is telling a new story about the global threat to whale populations."

"The Biden administration on Thursday published a key environmental report for ioneer's Rhyolite Ridge lithium mine in Nevada, the last step needed before approving what would become one of the largest U.S. sources of the electric vehicle battery metal."

"A destructive cocktail of herbicides, including a key compound in the lethal defoliant Agent Orange, is being used to chemically deforest huge areas of Brazil as ranchers there seek new, less detectable ways to clear forests for grazing cattle."

"The worst drought on record has lowered the water level of the rivers in the Amazon basin to historic lows, in some cases drying up riverbeds that were previously navigable waterways."

"Activists greet decision over killings of British journalist and Brazilian Indigenous expert with ‘indignation’"

"Guardians of ancient Canadian cedars are divided over the future of logging on their windswept island outpost"

"In the San Bernardino Mountains, another wildfire has forced residents to flee, the latest reminder that they must accept the risks of climate change if they want to remain."

"How schools, hospitals, prisons and other institutions in 15 states profit from land and resources on 79 tribal nations."