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Is There Really Such Thing as a ‘Safe’ Limit for Biodiversity Loss?
Biodiversity may be below ‘safe’ levels on 58 percent of the Earth.
I Accidentally Ate the World's Most Illegally Trafficked Animal
If you’re in the market for a truly awful meal sprinkled with guilt and served with a side of sizzling bad karma, as I unfortunately experienced, then pangolin meat is for you. See you in hell.
Why the Chinese Market For Commercially Bred Tiger Parts May Only Get Bigger
The demand for products like tiger bone wine and pickled bear claws is fuelling a horrific—and likely soon-to-be legal—industry.
A Japanese Sushi Tycoon Paid $117,000 for an Endangered Bluefin Tuna
Kiyoshi Kimura, owner of Sushi Zanmai restaurant chain, placed a whopping 14 million yen ($117,000) winning bid on a 440-pound fish, which comes out to about $265 per pound.
Notes on Eating the World's Largest Living Arthropod
I was on Atafu, an atoll far into the blue nowhere of the South Pacific, when I was offered a taste of the rich, massive coconut crab—which I later found out is endangered.
These Surreal Paintings Should Make You Worry About the Earth
Cuban-American artist Juan Travieso brings his Pop-meets-surrealist paintings to New York's Jenn Singer Gallery.
A Commercial Fishing Net Just Dumped 75,000 Dead Fish on Virginia’s Shore
Because the beaches are home to the endangered tiger beetle, cleanup crews can’t use heavy equipment, rakes, or shovels, and have to pick up the fish individually and put them into wheelbarrows.
What’s Up with All the Dead Whales, Alaska?
Over the past two months 30 dead whales have washed up along the Alaskan coastline and no one seems to know why.
Frozen Jizz from the 80s Is Helping Save this Endangered Ferret
A new study shows thawing out the frozen spunk helped improve genetic diversity in the population.
One of the World's Biggest Extinction Crises Is Being Caused by Cats
Australia has been the scene of the worst extinction of mammals for the last two hundred years, now the Australian government has declared "war" on the cats doing much of the damage.
The Ili Pika Is Really Cute, and Really Close to Becoming Extinct
New photos might finally encourage people to care enough to support conservation efforts for the nearly-extinct animal.
The New Zealand Government Wants to Allow Drilling for Oil in a Dolphin Habitat
Plans for oil and gas exploration are a death sentence for the world's smallest and rarest dolphin.