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Involuntary parks: Human conflict is creating unintended refuges for wildlife

Involuntary parks — areas made largely untenable for human habitation due to environmental contamination, war, border disputes or other forms of conflict and violence — have often unintentionally benefited nature, with flora and fauna sometimes thriving in the absence of people.

Involuntary parks: Human conflict is creating unintended refuges for wildlife

Whales Are in Danger in N.Y. Waterways: ‘Like Deer Crossing the Road’

Just before noon on a Sunday in October, passengers settled onto the upper deck of the American Princess, a 95-foot cruising vessel that departed from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, into the Atlantic Ocean in search of whales. They did not have to wait long to find one.

Whales Are in Danger in N.Y. Waterways: ‘Like Deer Crossing the Road’

Woman killed in suspected mountain lion attack while hiking in Colorado

A Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesperson said there were 'signs that this was consistent with a mountain lion attack but we can't say for sure.'

Woman killed in suspected mountain lion attack while hiking in Colorado

Saving South Africa's threatened albatross from lethal fishing lines

A task force is trying to save seabirds from getting caught and killed in fishing boat nets.

Saving South Africa's threatened albatross from lethal fishing lines

Utah Tries Relocating Beavers to Save Them, and Remake the Landscape

The beaver who would one day be named June was simply doing what beavers do.

Utah Tries Relocating Beavers to Save Them, and Remake the Landscape

In two-day effort at sea, team partially frees whale of fishing gear off Georgia coast

A team from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources was documenting the second North Atlantic right whale calf of the season about 4 miles offshore of the Florida/Georgia border on Wednesday when they received an urgent message.

In two-day effort at sea, team partially frees whale of fishing gear off Georgia coast

‘The narwhals stop calling’: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic

The delicate clicks and whistles of narwhals carry through Tasiujaq, locally known as Eclipse Sound, at the eastern Arctic entrance of the Northwest Passage.

‘The narwhals stop calling’: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic
Involuntary parks: Human conflict is creating unintended refuges for wildlife

Involuntary parks: Human conflict is creating unintended refuges for wildlife

Involuntary parks — areas made largely untenable for human habitation due to environmental contamination, war, border disputes or other forms of conflict and violence — have often unintentionally benefited nature, with flora and fauna sometimes thriving in the absence of people.

Whales Are in Danger in N.Y. Waterways: ‘Like Deer Crossing the Road’

Whales Are in Danger in N.Y. Waterways: ‘Like Deer Crossing the Road’

Just before noon on a Sunday in October, passengers settled onto the upper deck of the American Princess, a 95-foot cruising vessel that departed from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, into the Atlantic Ocean in search of whales. They did not have to wait long to find one.

Woman killed in suspected mountain lion attack while hiking in Colorado

Woman killed in suspected mountain lion attack while hiking in Colorado

A Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesperson said there were 'signs that this was consistent with a mountain lion attack but we can't say for sure.'

Saving South Africa's threatened albatross from lethal fishing lines

Saving South Africa's threatened albatross from lethal fishing lines

A task force is trying to save seabirds from getting caught and killed in fishing boat nets.

Utah Tries Relocating Beavers to Save Them, and Remake the Landscape

Utah Tries Relocating Beavers to Save Them, and Remake the Landscape

The beaver who would one day be named June was simply doing what beavers do.

In two-day effort at sea, team partially frees whale of fishing gear off Georgia coast

In two-day effort at sea, team partially frees whale of fishing gear off Georgia coast

A team from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources was documenting the second North Atlantic right whale calf of the season about 4 miles offshore of the Florida/Georgia border on Wednesday when they received an urgent message.

‘The narwhals stop calling’: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic

‘The narwhals stop calling’: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic

The delicate clicks and whistles of narwhals carry through Tasiujaq, locally known as Eclipse Sound, at the eastern Arctic entrance of the Northwest Passage.

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