Tag: Conservation
Inside the Growing Movement to Fight Conservation – Mother Jones
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Google “America’s Best Idea” and you’ll find there’s a clear frontrunner: our national parks. The United States has 63 now, including southern swamps and deep mountain canyons and forests of saguaro cacti, a collection of beloved landscapes that stretches, to quote the familiar song, “from sea to shining sea.”
But America’s preeminent property rights activist, Margaret Byfield, sees these parks differently. They were
Readers discuss grassland conservation and a hummingbird flight trick
Conservation considerations
The online mapping tool Landscape Explorer uses historical and modern aerial images to show how the American West’s landscapes have changed over the last 70 years, Brianna Randall wrote in “Landscape Explorer transports you back to a more wild West” (SN: 12/2/23, p. 32).
Randall wrote that Landscape Explorer has helped conservationists in Montana prioritize where to remove invasive trees that have taken root in grasslands, which threaten local biodiversity and increase the risk of catastrophic
Wird Bidens neues American Climate Corps den Erfolg des California Conservation Corps erreichen?
Am Mittwoch nutzte Präsident Biden seine Exekutivgewalt, um das American Climate Corps zu gründen, das 20.000 junge Menschen beschäftigen und in der Arbeit der Klimaresilienz ausbilden wird.
Ähnlich, aber bescheidener als das berühmte CCC – das von Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933 während der Weltwirtschaftskrise gegründete Civilian Conservation Corps – kann das ACC jungen Menschen langfristige berufliche Fähigkeiten vermitteln und gleichzeitig den Übergang des Landes zu erneuerbaren Energien beschleunigen.
Biden hatte gehofft, dass eine aktualisierte, klimaorientierte Version des FDR-Korps eine Bestimmung
The Problem of Nature Writing
The Bible is a foundational text in Western literature, ignored at an aspiring writer’s hazard, and when I was younger I had the ambition to read it cover to cover. After breezing through the early stories and slogging through the religious laws, which were at least of sociological interest, I chose to cut myself some slack with Kings and Chronicles, whose lists of patriarchs and their many sons seemed no more necessary to read than a phonebook. With judicious skimming,
Mushrooms cloud Polish election campaign – POLITICO
Wild mushrooms are a tempting treat but dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing. That’s true whether you’re eating them or using them to score political points, Jarosław Kaczyński has found.
The Polish éminence grise, who leads the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party and is arguably the country’s de facto ruler, on Sunday accused the opposition of allowing the EU to dictate forest management policy, which he said would trample on the national pastime of foraging for
On a Tropical Beach, Conservationists and Poachers Collide
The shoreline where a green sea turtle hatches from her egg is often the same place she’ll return to nest for the first time. One such inlet is Jumba beach, which abuts the site of an old Swahili village near the bustling city of Mombasa, in southern Kenya. In the ruins of Jumba la Mtwana, crumbling homes, cisterns, and mosques offer evidence of an ancient maritime settlement that was influenced by Omani Arabs. Jumba was abandoned in the early fifteenth
Eliane Brum Is in the Reforesting Vanguard
Fifty minutes into our video call, the Brazilian writer and journalist Eliane Brum picks up her laptop to show me the view of the Amazon rain forest from her balcony. “This is where I watched the forest burning for an entire night,” she says, referring to the fires that blazed last summer. Brum describes it as one of the worst experiences of her life, a “holocaust of lives” in which millions of nonhuman beings died in “excruciating pain.”
A Meditation on Trans-Species Love
Dirty Nickel, Clean Power: Making the Ocean Bleed Red
The parable of the last corals on Earth – POLITICO
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For three decades the Israeli scientist Maoz Fine waited for the corals around his home on the Red Sea to succumb to global warming and turn a horrible shade of white.
Instead, he discovered they have a superpower.
In 2013, Fine, who runs a research center in the Israeli port of Eilat, published a scientific paper reporting that the corals across a large sweep of the Red Sea appeared