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Bird populations are mysteriously declining at an Amazon park in Ecuador & beyond
The number of individual birds found at the Yasuní Biosphere Reserve has dropped by half, according to a study published earlier this year.
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Canada oil sands air pollution 20-64 times worse than industry says: Study
Air pollution levels over Alberta’s tar sands are many times higher than industry-reported figures, according to researchers, raising questions over potential health risks to downwind Indigenous communities.
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Undercover in a shark fin trafficking ring: Interview with wildlife crime fighter Andrea Crosta
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Philip Jacobson is a fellow. Four years of investigating jaguar parts trafficking rings in Latin America led Andrea Crosta to a grim realization: The same smugglers were often involved in a variety of illegal enterprises, including moving different kinds of wildlife products across […]
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Tackling climate change in one of Colombia’s largest wetlands
The time it takes to cross the Ayapel swamp, the largest swamp in the department of Córdoba, northern Colombia, is a good measurement of how much this landscape has changed in recent decades. The journey, which used to take several hours, can now be done in less than one. Gone are the streams that forced […]
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Twilight zone fishing: Can we fish the ocean’s mesopelagic layer?
Two hundred meters below the surface of the sea is a cold, faintly lit layer of water known as the mesopelagic, or twilight, zone. Here lives a menagerie of peculiar-looking creatures: blue-glowing plankton and squid; spindly fish flashing kaleidoscopes of colors, some baring rows of barbed teeth. Many of these creatures lurk in this region’s […]
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