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In the Peruvian Amazon, the prized shihuahuaco tree faces a grim future

Scientists estimate that if measures are not taken to protect it, in 10 years’ time the shihuahuaco may go extinct. In 2018, around 4,000 cubic meters (141,000 cubic feet) of shihuahuaco timber was ... read more

Florida’s Mangroves Face Death by Rising Sea Level

Florida’s mangroves have been forced into a hasty retreat by sea level rise and now face being drowned, imperiling coastal communities and the prized Everglades wetlands ... “The outlook is pretty ... read more

The Late Greats: Lives We Lost in 2018

The answer, on its face, is grim: We remember them today because we lost them this ... Dole was by far the most recognizable character on GLOW, with her tree trunk-like arms and shoulders as wide as a ... read more

Bless you, children

Faith in you restored, I can blog again without feeling like it’s just me and Wilson on a deserted island. I’ll still be chatting soon with the IT people about this, but the apparatus on how to leave ... read more

Vulture’s Tribeca Film Festival Movie Commitment Calculator

Crafted with humor and insight, the film paints a memorable portrait of artistic passion in the face of an unsung struggle ... and agribusiness have started touting edible insects as the future of ... read more

The Outside Literary All-Stars

The thriving criminal trade in Native American archaeological artifacts always seems to be one step ahead of law enforcement. But when cops learned that a notorious Oregon antiquities collector had ... read more

Black Cats of Carreras Cigarette Factory

Walk by this old cigarette factory, and you can’t help but feel like you’re being watched. The faces of black cats line the wall, their yellow eyes constantly staring at the street. Two enormous cat ... read more

The GOP’s Trump-Carson 1-2 Punch in the Nuts

So after seven years of bitching about a mediocre president's crippling inexperience, more than two-fifths of Republican voters are going nuts over candidates who make Sarah Palin look like a wisened ... read more

Assessing the extent of "conflict of use" in multipurpose tropical forest trees: A regional view

Carapa guianensis (andiroba, Meliaceae) is a woody plant native to the Amazon Rainforest (Tropicos, 2016). It is prized for its highly valued wood ... The management of tree genetic resources and the ... read more

"Dante's Inferno" in Chile: All-Time National Heat Record Smashed by 6°F

The first all-time national heat record of 2017 was set in spectacular fashion on Thursday in Chile, where at least twelve different stations recorded a temperature in excess of the nation’s previous ... read more

Conservation and conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo: The impacts of warfare, mining, and protected areas on deforestation

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), home of the second largest tropical forest ... The forests that harbor elevated levels of pygmy chameleon diversity in the AR face severe challenges from an ... read more

Hejduk signs on for one more year

Good news for the Avs, their fans and for Milan Hejduk today. The Duke just signed a one-year contract extension with the team, through 2010-11. I’m still waiting to dig out what the contract will be ... read more