Washington Post article: "On Friday, the government of Ecuador announced it will curb fishing in more than 20,000 square miles of ocean to the northeast of the archipelago, in essence erecting guardrails around an underwater animal freeway between the Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands and Costa Rica’s Cocos Island."
From an article by ANNA BAXTER on the OCEANA website:
In January 2025, a series of devastating wildfires hit Southern California. Lives were lost. Homes and businesses were destroyed. Families were displaced. The scale of the devastation is staggering. But the damage doesn’t stop at the shoreline.
This week, as Southern Californians are deluged with torrential downpours, harmful pollutants and toxic runoff from the fires could wash into local waters and put both marine life and local communities at risk.
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Researchers in Alaska are trying to understand warming ocean's consequences for salmon. Washington Post story.
Quadrennial Global Trends Report of the National Intelligence Council.
It's hard to think of a headline more stark than the one in the Washington Post: "Intelligence forecast sees a post-coronavirus world upended by climate change and splintering societies."
The red coral of the Mediterranean, critical to the region's ecosystem, is threatened by illegal coral harvesting as well as by heat waves. Story in The Atlantic magazine.
The monarch population has fallen by 75% percent in the past three decades. Although monarchs qualify for protection under the Endangered Species Act, federal officials say budgetary constraints cause them to ignore the butterfly in favor of higher-priority endangered species. NY Times story here.
Organizations around the country are working to save the monarch butterfly. Here are links to a few: Monarch Watch, Save Our Monarchs Foundation,and the Environmental Defense Fund.
Climate change could spell the coup de grace for bumblebees. From the New York Times.
Washington Post article detailing the animals killed in Australia's current fires.
New York Times report on shocking findings reported in Science journal: 29 million fewer birds than there were fifty years ago.
Critical habitat protections will be diminished.
NPR report: "In a move that critics say will hurt plants, animals and other species as they face mounting threats, the Trump administration is making major changes to how the Endangered Species Act is implemented....."
Around the world, over 1000 people were arrested. Washington Post story.
"It's one enormous natural selection event." NY Times.
NYT article about how global warming caused the wipeout of most life on Earth, 252 million years ago
The Washington Post reports on a "hyperalarming" study showing dramatic loss of insects in pristine American tropical forest. The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Post story notes that 35% of the world's plant crops require pollination by bees, wasps and other animals, so that if pollinators go extinct so will many plant species.
Tender hatchlings are prey to the rising tides. From the New York Times.