The Revelator - Environmental News and Commentary
1 天前 · The Revelator, an environmental news and commentary initiative of the Center for Biological Diversity, provides editorially independent reporting, analysis and stories at the intersection of politics, conservation, art, culture, endangered species, climate change, economics and the future of wild species, wild places and the planet. MOST READ.
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Expert Commentary. The Revelator welcomes engaging, thought-provoking, quality think pieces, op-eds and other contributions from activists, academics, scientists, policymakers, attorneys and other experts.. Our readers tend to be both educated about environmental issues and personally or professionally involved in them, so our commentaries speak to …
12 New Environmental Books You Need to Read This Autumn
23 小时之前 · Publishers have an impressive slate of environmental books lined up for release this autumn — even more than usual. Maybe that’s an indication of how bad our environmental problems have become, how many problems we face, and how hungry people are for solutions.. As the nights get longer and cooler, here are 12 noteworthy new books for readers to put at the top of their fall reading piles.
All the Plants We Cannot See • The Revelator
1 天前 · Wildlife. October 17, 2024 - by Karen Mockler. When Kathryn Parsley taught biology to undergrads, she sometimes talked about Australia’s stinging tree, which is among the world’s most venomous plants — and can cause months of excruciating pain for anyone who approaches it. “It’s incredibly dangerous,” she says.
The Revelator - Jillian Everly
3 天之前 · Western science structures are embedded in a deeply rooted settler-colonial mindset. Indigenous traditional knowledge has the potential to overturn western systems destined for doom. Jillian Everly is a scholar with a background in marine policy and human rights. She is a Sea Grant Knauss Fellow in Congress, working for Alaska Representative ...
The Revelator’s Top 12 Environmental Commentaries of 2021
December 27, 2021 - by Tara Lohan and John R. Platt. This was a year a lot of stuff got done — and a lot of former President Donald Trump’s environmental rollbacks got undone. Congress also pushed forward a big bill on infrastructure, with benefits for wildlife. The extinction crisis and efforts to protect biodiversity came into sharper ...
Extinction Countdown Archives - The Revelator
2024年6月6日 · When humans bring new plants to an ecosystem, it can slowly push out the original inhabitants. Research shows us how to identify this threat before plant species become “the living dead.”. April 5, 2024. by. John R. Platt. Extinction Countdown.
Darwin the Storyteller • The Revelator
2024年10月11日 · Less than a decade after Darwin published Origin, the German naturalist Ernst Haeckel recognized that Darwin’s stories of interspecies communities constituted a subject so innovative it deserved a new name.He coined the word Oekologie to describe it. We now think of ecology as a science, a field whose rigor and objectivity separate it from the more personal, fanciful, and emotionally charged ...
The World’s Dams Are Filling Up — But Not With Water
2023年3月15日 · The biggest losses will be felt by Japan, where the average dam age is 100 years. The country has lost 39% of storage in its reservoirs already, and that will climb to 50% by 2050. After Japan, Azerbaijan (24%), Israel (24%), Kazakhstan (20%) and Afghanistan (20%) are next on the list. “In Asia, the region where 60% of the world’s ...
Mallory McDuff, Author at The Revelator
2 天之前 · Mallory McDuff teaches environmental education at Warren Wilson College. She is the author of five books, with bylines in the New York Times, Washington Post, the Guardian, and more.