Botswana Lifts Ban On Hunting Elephants

Animals

By Alexandra Patel and Monica Medina After a 5-year ban, the government announced recently that elephant hunting is again legal in the southern African nation of Botswana. The former President Ian Khama originally implemented the hunting ban, but it came under...

Record Number of Grey Whales Washing Up on West Coast Beaches

Animals

An alarming spike of grey whale deaths along the US West Coast has prompted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to declare the deaths an “unusual mortality event.” This designation means that the deaths required greater scrutiny and...

Cyprus Devises a Plan to Cull Invasive Lionfish

Animals

Lionfish are native to the Indo-Pacific, but due to the pet trade have invaded native habitats along the east coast of the U.S., the Caribbean, parts of the Gulf of Mexico and even on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean: the Mediterranean Sea. The island nation of...

Green Groups Sue to Compel Endangered Species Listings

Animals

The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump Administration to compel them to list 8 “highly imperiled” species that were on the verge of being listed at the end of the Obama Administration.  Since then their final listing decisions have languished...

The Guardian changes the way it will talk about climate change

Climate Change

From today, the Guardian is updating the language we use when we report on the environment: https://t.co/UJtqEjQ1Kd — Katharine Viner (@KathViner) May 17, 2019 Last Friday, British daily newspaper the Guardian updated its style guide and is now recommending to...