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- Aug 17, 2026
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Inside the race to buy coral reefs more time (opens the original)
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In a remote island nation in the Pacific, scientists are developing “fitness tests” to help corals withstand extreme heat. PALAU, Micronesia — The ride out to sea was, in a word, unpleasant. The coastal waters of Palau, an island nation in the western Pacific, are typically calm and electric blue, like what you might see on a screensaver or postcard. The country has put in place some of the world’s most rigorous protections to keep its marine environment pristine. But on this particular morning
We think we just discovered some new species living in New York City (opens the original)
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Earlier this summer, Vox set up two big bug traps in New York City — like, literal traps that catch bugs. Our goal was to try to discover a new insect species right in the middle of the city because the bulk of them are still unknown to science. We now have some exciting, albeit preliminary, results to share. During the month of June — the only month we’ve analyzed so far — our traps captured an estimated 12,000 insect specimens, which we sent to a lab at the University of Guelph in Canada for a
It’s no longer illegal to destroy the one thing endangered species need most to survive (opens the original)
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The Trump administration’s twisted definition of one word is putting hundreds of rare animals at risk. The greatest threat to animals in the US and globally is the destruction of their habitat — replacing grasslands with farms, cutting forests for timber, building suburbs atop wetlands. It’s the main reason why hundreds of species have been listed under the Endangered Species Act, which gives federal protection to species that are currently at risk of extinction or are about to be. That’s what m
This US state has become an unexpected epicenter of the global extinction crisis (opens the original)
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And it reveals a big problem with the nation’s approach to saving endangered species. BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — On a sweltering afternoon in June, I stood in what was essentially a roadside ditch. Sandwiched between a four-lane highway and the parking lot of a faith-based recreation center near Birmingham, the ditch was filled with cool, flowing water, a bit of trash, and, apparently, some highly endangered fish. Jeffrey Drummond, a biologist at the US Fish and Wildlife Service, stretched out a shee
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