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    8 Art Installations and Exhibits Drawing Attention to Climate Change

    8 Art Installations and Exhibits Drawing Attention to Climate Change

    Art about climate change is becoming increasingly common in museums and galleries, but some artists are moving outside and sharing their work in public spaces to reach a broader audience. From parks, to interactive experiences, to underwater landscapes, these displays have a unique capacity to communicate the severity of climate change and our current environmental […]

    Biden Admin. Sued for Giving Big Oil Green Light to Harass Polar Bears, Walruses

    Biden Admin. Sued for Giving Big Oil Green Light to Harass Polar Bears, Walruses

    By Jessica Corbett A coalition of conservation groups sued the Biden administration on Thursday over the U.S. Department of the Interior’s recent rule allowing fossil fuel companies to harass polar bears and walruses while searching and drilling for oil and gas in the Southern Beaufort Sea. Announced last month by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife […]

    More Than 100 Birds Found Coated in Oil After Ida

    More Than 100 Birds Found Coated in Oil After Ida

    More than 100 birds have been found covered with oil following a spill linked to Hurricane Ida‘s path through the Gulf of Mexico late last month. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) said Thursday that the birds were impacted by a spill at the Alliance Refinery in Belle Chasse, Louisiana. “The number of […]

    2 in 5 Shark Species Threatened With Extinction, Says IUCN

    2 in 5 Shark Species Threatened With Extinction, Says IUCN

    More than a third of shark and ray species are directly threatened by extinction, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) warned on Saturday. The revelation came in the IUCN’s updated Red List assessment on endangered wildlife, which was released at the body’s World Conservation Congress in Marseilles, France. The most comprehensive survey […]

    Climate Crisis Is Driving Decline of Critical Endangered Whale Species

    Climate Crisis Is Driving Decline of Critical Endangered Whale Species

    Critically endangered North Atlantic right whales are in the midst of an Unusual Mortality Event (UME), with an estimated 50 whales dying in the last four years. Now, new research published in Oceanography on Tuesday reveals that the climate crisis is the ultimate culprit in their decline as changing conditions have forced them to move […]

    Scientists Discover Ancient Four-Legged Whale

    Scientists Discover Ancient Four-Legged Whale

    Scientists have discovered an ancient species of four-legged whale that can help explain the animals‘ evolution from land to sea. The new whale, written up in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Wednesday, was discovered in the Egypt desert and named Phiomicetus anubis. “Phiomicetus anubis is a key new whale species, and a critical discovery […]