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Meet the Marine Biologist Who Works for a Hotel Chain

✇NYT: Science
By: Elisabeth Goodridge
15 May 2024 at 05:00
Megan Morikawa of the Iberostar Group is applying science — and scale — to eliminate food waste, save coral and collaborate across the travel industry to cut carbon.

California Will Add a Fixed Charge to Electric Bills and Reduce Rates

✇NYT: Technology
By: Ivan Penn
10 May 2024 at 11:06
Officials said the decision would lower bills and encourage people to use cars and appliances that did not use fossil fuels, but some experts said it would discourage energy efficiency.

© Jim Wilson/The New York Times

Utility companies across the country have long pushed for fixed charges to help cover the cost of maintaining and improving grid equipment like power lines and substations

New Photo of Australia’s Sand-Swimming Northern Marsupial Mole

✇NYT: Science
By: Anthony Ham
1 May 2024 at 00:02
Indigenous rangers in Australia’s Western Desert got a rare close-up with the northern marsupial mole, which is tiny, light-colored and blind, and almost never comes to the surface.

U.S. Plan to Protect Oceans Has a Problem, Some Say: Too Much Fishing

✇NYT: Science
By: Catrin Einhorn
30 April 2024 at 14:48
An effort to protect 30 percent of land and waters would count some commercial fishing zones as conserved areas.

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The primary driver of biodiversity declines in the ocean, according to researchers, is overfishing.

They Shoot Owls in California, Don’t They?

✇NYT: Science
By: Franz Lidz
29 April 2024 at 05:01
An audacious federal plan to protect the spotted owl would eradicate hundreds of thousands of barred owls in the coming years.

© Gerry Ellis/Minden Pictures

Northern spotted owl populations have declined by up to 80 percent over the last two decades. As few as 3,000 remain on federal lands, compared with 12,000 in the 1990s.

Land Under B.L.M. Management to Get New Protections

✇NYT: Science
By: Catrin Einhorn
18 April 2024 at 14:32
The measure elevates conservation in a number of ways, including by creating new leases for the restoration of degraded areas.

© Jemal Countess/Getty Images

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland in 2021. She said the new rule announced on Thursday “helps restore balance to our public lands.”

Interior Department Rejects Ambler Road Project in Alaska

✇NYT: Science
By: Lisa Friedman
17 April 2024 at 13:05
A mining company wants to build a 211-mile industrial road through Alaskan wilderness to reach a large copper deposit. The Interior Department says it would harm wildlife and communities.

© Ken Hill/National Park Service, Alaska

The headwaters of the Ambler River in the Noatak National Preserve of Alaska, near where the proposed access road would end.

In Australia, ‘Cats Are Just Catastrophic’

✇NYT: Science
By: Emily Anthes and Chang W. Lee
16 April 2024 at 10:17
Feral cats take a heavy toll on the world’s wildlife, especially Down Under. The solution? Smarter traps, sharpshooters, survival camp for prey species, and the “Felixer.”

Dr. Moseby releasing a bettong at the reserve.

Four Wild Ways to Save the Koala (That Just Might Work)

✇NYT: Science
By: Emily Anthes and Chang W. Lee
15 April 2024 at 00:01
To protect Australia’s iconic animals, scientists are experimenting with vaccine implants, probiotics, tree-planting drones and solar-powered tracking tags.

A veterinary nurse treats a koala infected with chlamydia at Currumbin Wildlife Hospital in Currumbin, Australia.

New Method That Pinpoints Wood’s Origin May Curb Illegal Timber

✇NYT: Science
By: Alexander Nazaryan
9 April 2024 at 00:01
The study could help identify wood from Russia, which has been banned by many countries because of the war.

© Alexey Malgavko/Reuters

Timber being moved down the Angara River in the Krasnoyarsk region, in Russia.
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