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===== Scientists issue urgent warning after alarming collapse of bird populations across the US: 'We have a full-on emergency' =====
[https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/declining-bird-populations-report-cornell-lab/ by Rachel Beyer 4/5/25 TCD]
A report from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology shows that bird populations across every U.S. habitat are plummeting, with 229 species in urgent need of help. And the impacts go far beyond bird-watching, pointing to deeper risks for ecosystems, economies, and human health.
===== New study reveals what urban coyotes are really eating in San Francisco =====
[https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/urban-coyote-diets-san-francisco-18703009.php by Amanda Bartlett 10/3/24 SFGATE]
On a foggy morning just after 7 a.m., Tali Caspi sat behind the wheel of a golf cart and drove across the manicured hills of the San Francisco Golf Club, searching for evidence.
===== These ‘miniature Komodo dragons’ faced extinction on a remote Caribbean island – until a difficult ‘regreening’ project started =====
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/reptiles/saving-sombrero-lizards-on-sombrero-island by Graeme Green 5/7/25 DISCOVER WILDLIFE]
At first glance, Sombrero Island doesn’t look like a place where life thrives. The surface of this tiny, remote, windswept land mass, 54km north-west of the Caribbean island of Anguilla, has an austere, moon-like appearance, with white-grey rock, strewn rubble and gigantic craters that are an uncomfortable reminder of the phosphate mining that devastated and permanently altered its landscape.
===== The reef that shouldn’t exist =====
[https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/300906/ by Rhett Ryers Butler 17/6/25 MONGABAY]
Some point to environmental quirks. Coastal currents may shield Cocalito from sedimentation and heat. Others cite human behavior: the reef’s shallow waters deter fishers, perhaps allowing a healthier ecological balance to persist.
===== DOE sets strategic goals for long-term biodiversity preservation =====
[https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/515327/DOE-sets-strategic-goals-for-long-term-biodiversity-preservation by TEHRAN 7/7/25 TEHRAN TIMES]
In this line, several meetings have been convened with the participation of faculty members, environmental experts, and managers, as well as NGOs, IRNA reported.
=====Solar Panels and Biodiversity=====
[https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/nature-inclusive-solar-parks-eu-biodiversity/ by Kaiyo Funaki 11/22/2024 The CoolDown]
The solar installations should be thoughtful in their approach, incorporating native and diverse species of trees and wildflowers to support pollinators, installing wildlife-friendly corridors and fencing, and avoiding the use of toxic herbicides.
Furthermore, they should utilize semi-transparent, bifacial solar panels that are mounted sufficiently high off the ground and can move with the sun to allow light to reach the vegetation below, which would improve soil quality and promote plant growth.
===== What is a mass extinction, and why do scientists think we’re in the middle of one? =====
[https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/23/world/mass-extinctions-explained-scn-climate/index.html by Katie Hunt 23/12/23 CNN]
No species lasts forever — extinction is part of the evolution of life.
But at least five times, a biological catastrophe has engulfed the planet, killing off the vast majority of species from water and land over a relatively short geological interval.
===== The doomsday vaults storing seeds, data and DNA to protect our future =====
[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/19/the-doomsday-vaults-storing-seeds-data-and-dna-to-protect-our-future by Ella Braidwood 12/11/23 The Guardian]
Are we allowed to go in?” I surprise myself with this question, given that I’m staring through the small window of a door into one of six underground vaults, each one essentially a walk-in freezer. The temperature inside is -20C. It is a grey winter day at the Millennium Seed Bank in Wakehurst, Sussex and the maze of featureless corridors and reinforced concrete adds to the 1984-ish austerity of the setting. These vaults are designed to withstand the worst apocalypse we can imagine – be it caused by bombs, radiation, floods or disease.
===== The most famous extinction event in the planet’s history is happening again — in Santa Cruz =====
[https://lookout.co/biggest-extinction-event-in-planet-history-is-happening-again-in-santa-cruz/story by Corinne Purtill 01/06/23 LookOut Santa Cruz]
The heat of impact generated massive fires that annihilated everything around them and sent colossal plumes of pollutants soaring into the atmosphere. Within a day or two, toxic clouds of pulverized rock, sulfate aerosols and wildfire soot had blanketed the planet, blocking all but a tiny fraction of the sun’s energy and bringing photosynthesis to a virtual halt for the only known time in history.


===== ‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects =====
===== ‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects =====
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