Wildlife

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Parks that can move when the animals do

Climate change is pushing marine animals out of their protected areas. Ways must be found to ensure that their protection migrates with them, naturalists say.
‘Ark’ races to rescue jungle frogs

As lethal fungus spreads, captive amphibians are bred for eventual return to the wild.
Can America’s West stay wild?

Policy on vast public lands has favored ranchers. Demographics and economics may alter that equation now.
The tiny, slimy savior of global coral reefs?

Heat-tolerant algae could help the world's reefs adapt to climate change, researcher says.
Could cows heal the West?

By grazing them in a way that mimics the pattern of wild herbivores, advocates say, rangeland improves.
Heat sends Southwest climate back in time

Effect of natural drought cycle and climate change is restoration of the grasslands of centuries ago.
As beetle invasion rages, a debate over logs

Home builders want the dead trees, but activists and regulations stand in the way.
Bush orders new protections for Pacific marine seascapes

Together with earlier moves, 355,000 square miles of islands, reefs, and atolls now have new safeguards.
EarthTalk: How threatened are US old-growth forests?

Agencies can’t agree on a definition, which hobbles preservation efforts.
Howls of protest greet Mexican wolf reintroduction

New Mexico program faces higher hurdles than similar one in Yellowstone.
In Atlanta, an expanded botanical mission

The Atlanta Botanical Garden is among the public gardens working to ensure the survival of threatened and endangered plants.
In New Mexico canyon, a novel way to prevent roadkill

Lobbied by concerned students, the state created a critter-friendly underpass.
Great perils of the Great Lakes

Invasive species, sinking water levels, and pollution are worrisome trends. But there’s also grandeur to be seen aboard a bulk freighter.
New bluefin catch rule riles scientists

Environmentalists say despite reducing catch quotas, the decision of an international regulatory commission stops short of adequately safeguarding the fragile bluefin population.
Korean demilitarized zone now a wildlife haven

Now there’s a move to keep it that way – and perhaps bring North and South Korea closer together.
Today’s unsettling comparison to ‘the great dying’

250 million years ago, rising greenhouse-gas levels set off catastrophic changes.
How air imperils the sea

Rising levels of carbon dioxide make oceans more acidic, putting shellfish, corals, and more at risk.
Buoys help ships steer clear of right whales

Far inland, scientists listen for slow, shallow swimmers.
Supreme Court lifts limits on Navy sonar near whales

The justices said restrictions off the coast of southern California jeopardized national security.
A coral farmer’s harvest of ‘living stones’

Landlocked Steve Lowes raises saltwater corals for the aquarium trade.