Hotspots Spread Across Southeast Asia as El Niño Threatens Hottest Years and Rising Haze Risk
The spread of hotspots across Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Sumatra, Malaysia and the Philippines signals that fire risk is not confined to one country. Weather patterns, wind direction and rainfall variability…
Online ads reveal scale — and gaps — in amphibian pet trade into US
Much of the pet trade in amphibians is conducted online, but it’s not well understood. Herpetologist Devin Edmonds with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign recently mapped out the trade in…
Warming and farming hasten bird losses across North America, study shows
After half a century of steep declines, North America’s birds are disappearing faster than ever. A new study shows that populations are shrinking across most of the continent, with intensive…