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To Save the Vaquita Porpoise, Conservationists Entreat Mexico to Keep Gillnets Out of the Northern Gulf of California

The country must enforce its ban on gillnet fishing in the area to save the world’s most endangered marine mammal, experts warn. Only around 10 of the porpoises are thought to remain.

By Delaney Dryfoos

Demonstrators with The Animal Welfare Institute hold a rally to save the vaquita, the world's smallest and most endangered porpoise, outside the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C., on July 5, 2018. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
View of Wild Goose Island in Saint Mary Lake at sunrise in Glacier National Park, Montana, United States. Credit: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images

‘America the Beautiful’ Plan Debuts the Biden Administration’s Approach to Conserving the Environment and Habitat

By Katie Surma, Judy Fahys

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris look on as Tom Vilsack, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Department of Agriculture, delivers remarks at the Queen Theater December 11, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Vilsack served for eight years as President Barack Obama’s secretary of Agriculture. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Biden Climate Plan Looks For Buy-in From Farmers Who Are Often Skeptical About Global Warming

By Georgina Gustin

Waste grain is left in harvested fields on Staten Island in the California Delta as forage for greater sandhill cranes, a state listed endangered species. Credit: Liza Gross

California Farmers Work to Create a Climate Change Buffer for Migratory Water Birds

By Liza Gross

Last year, Clif unveiled a two-megawatt, five-acre solar farm with pollinator-friendly habitat at its bakery in Twin Falls, Idaho. Credit: Jared Lauritsen

Pollinator-Friendly Solar Could be a Win-Win for Climate and Landowners, but Greenwashing is a Worry

By Ilana Cohen

Tule Elk. Credit: Julia Kane/InsideClimate News

California Ranchers and Activists Face Off Over a Federal Plan to Cull a Beloved Tule Elk Herd

By Katelyn Weisbrod

The San Luis Reservoir receives water from the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta. The water is pumped uphill into the reservoir and released to continue downstream along the California Aqueduct for farm irrigation and other uses. Credit: Melanie Stetson

Sparring Over a ‘Tiny Little Fish,’ a Legendary Biologist Calls President Trump ‘an Ignorant Bully’

By Evelyn Nieves

A planned restoration of the forest, meadows and wetlands in this floodplain near Leipzig, Germany, will boost biodiversity by improving wildlife habitat, and bolster climate mitigation by increasing carbon storage. Credit: Hendrik Schmidt/picture allianc

Targeted Ecosystem Restoration Can Protect Climate, Biodiversity

By Bob Berwyn

Mule deer starting their spring migration in the Colorado Rockies browse for new growth just below the snowline. Credit: Bob Berwyn

Global Warming Shortens Spring Feeding Season for Mule Deer in Wyoming

By Bob Berwyn

In Eastern California, the U.S. Forest Service is using controlled fires in Jeffrey pine forests to try and make them more resilient to climate change. Credit: Bob Berwyn

‘We Need to Hear These Poor Trees Scream’: Unchecked Global Warming Means Big Trouble for Forests

By Bob Berwyn

Robin. Credit: Bob Berwyn

In a Race Against Global Warming, Robins Are Migrating Earlier

By Bob Berwyn

The the carder bee, seen here gathering pollen on an alpine silver thistle in the Austrian Alps. Credit: Bob Berwyn/InsideClimate News

Bumblebee Decline Linked With Extreme Heat Waves

By Bob Berwyn

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