Wildlife

"In late April, heavy machinery began moving into the Pishë Poro-Narta protected landscape on Albania’s Adriatic coast without permits or public notice. Bulldozers and excavators felled coastal pine trees, flattened sand dunes, and cut new roads through previously untouched habitat." "The incursion was the realization of a luxury resort development backed by Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law."

“You can hear and smell Meg Webster’s latest exhibition before you see it. Walking up the stairs of Paula Cooper Gallery in Chelsea, there’s a chorus of birds chirps. Then comes the smell: a dusky, dense scent reminiscent of wet earth. Finally, you walk into the main space and encounter “Thicket,” the show’s titular artwork, a beckoning spiral made of local branches, leaves and flowers."

“Some remains found in Diamantina fracture zone date back more than 5m years and reveal species and ecosystems unknown to science.”

"Environmental groups on Wednesday sued attempting to stop the Trump administration from giving SpaceX more than 700 acres (280 hectares) of wildlife refuge in Texas, claiming it would worsen ecological risks to a Gulf Coast region already transformed by billionaire Elon Musk’s rocket operations."

“A new case of New World Screwworm was confirmed on Tuesday in a calf in La Salle County, Texas, bringing the total cases of NWS in the United States to six."

“Inside the island colony being tapped to help save Australia's koalas from deadly chlamydia.”

“On Monday, Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama ​told Reuters in an interview that his country will press ahead with ⁠a luxury resort planned by U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his ​daughter Ivanka Trump on a remote stretch of Balkan coast despite protests over ​its environmental impact.”

“Wildlife department says drought conditions and water released from dam led to ‘major fish kill’ at San Carlos Lake.”

“Global effort needed to limit effects of pollution, industrial fishing and climate crisis, World Ocean Assessment says.”

“The Trump administration agreed to strip endangered ​species protection from a lizard whose habitat overlapped the largest oil-producing region in the United ‌States, settling a lawsuit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.”