The decision to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s ecologically sensitive North Slope has the support of the state’s governor and senators.
Tag: Wildlife Sanctuaries and Nature Reserves
Two Brown Bears Broke Out of Their Pen. Then They Ransacked the Honey Stash.
Mish and Lucy, 5-year-old siblings, escaped their enclosure at a wildlife sanctuary in Devon, England. Only honey was in danger.
Historic Shipwrecks Come to Light in the Great Lakes
With an underwater drone named Rhody, archaeologists are mapping some of the dozens of sunken vessels in Lake Ontario.
What a Marine Heat Wave Reveals About Our Warming Oceans
An extreme heat wave off California’s coast seemed like an anomaly 10 years ago. But as the ocean warms, the catastrophe may be a glimpse of the future.
Here Are the Risks When Zoos Pay for Endangered Species
We tracked $86 million in U.S. money that was supposed to go toward panda conservation in China.
Here Are the Risks When Zoos Pay for Endangered Species
We tracked $86 million in U.S. money that was supposed to go toward panda conservation in China.
Millions of Dollars to Protect Pandas Was Spent by China on Roads and Buildings
A Times investigation found that zoos knew conservation money went toward apartment buildings and roads. But they wanted to keep displaying pandas, so nobody looked too closely.
What Trump’s Return Could Mean for Animals
A second Trump administration could alter the lives of all sorts of animals, whether they live in laboratories, zoos, fields or forests.
A Radical Approach to Flooding in the UK: Give Land Back to the Sea
When a huge tract of land on the Somerset coast was deliberately flooded, the project was slammed as “ridiculous” by a local lawmaker. But the results have been transformative.
On the Kenya-Tanzania Border, an Elephant Hunting Ban Has Collapsed
Five bulls from the area around a Kenyan wildlife reserve have been shot and killed in Tanzania in recent months. The countries have very different conservation strategies.