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Cancer on a Whole Species Cover Story The gruesome disease ravaging Tasmanian devils is unlike anything we’ve seen before. by Cynthia Mills Ecosystems Unraveling Pull predators out of the mix, and a once lush green world turns into an ecological shop of horrors. by William Stolzenburg Urban Myths When most of us think about environmentally friendly places, we imagine a terrain untouched by concrete. Cities seem like ecological nightmares. But perhaps the conventional wisdom is exactly backward. by Jonah Lehrer |
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Saint Ursus Maritimus Icons are about simplicity and clarity. No gray areas. But what happens when the real polar bear clashes with the symbol it has become? by Jim Robbins Wildlife Contraception Charged with downsizing wildlife populations to fit the geography of the modern world, a small group of researchers is out to replace bullets with family planning. by Douglas Fox The Vision Thing Imagine swapping Tony Blair for Winston Churchill. Would it transform the timid politics of global warming? by Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenberger |
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Arresting Evidence State-of-the-art forensic technology is forcing us to face the reality that even our most applauded trade bans and moratoriums aren’t working. From ivory cell phones to shark fin soup, it’s all available—at a price. by Natasha Loder The Last Gladiators How joyful, really, is the resurrection of a species if the modern world cannot find a single haven for it and if it seems doomed to slip into limbo once more anyway? by Scott Weidensaul 10 Solutions to Save the Ocean We asked a select group of innovative thinkers to go out on a limb. Martín Hall, Daniel Pauly, David Conover, Amanda Vincent, Kimberly Davis, Carl Safina, George Sugihara, Ussif Rashid Sumaila, and Tundi Agardy |
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Aliens Among Us Invasive species stand accused of ecological insubordination, mass murder, and other crimes against nature. But the case is far from closed. A Round Table with James H. Brown and Dov F. Sax, Daniel Simberloff, and Mark Sagoff Writers' Block Earnest, pious, and quite allergic to irony: nature writing has none of the trademark qualities that play well in 2007. So is it time for a change? by Jenny Price That Sinking Feeling We dig fossil fuel out of the ground, burn it and fill the atmosphere with carbon dioxide, and then plant trees to soak it back up. If only it were so simple. by Nick Atkinson Green Giants by George Monbiot |
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When Worlds Collide Climate change will shuffle the deck of plants, animals, and ecosystems in ways we've only begun to imagine. by Douglas Fox Virginity Lost Pristine forests of the Amazon were not encountered in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; they were invented in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. by Fred Pearce Are We Putting Tigers in Our Tanks? The connection between biodiesel, land use, and habitat loss isn't easy to pin down, but it isn't easy to ignore, either. by Staff |
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Do No Harm The story of the Hawaiian crow is a parable of doing harm by going to all lengths to do good. What role should the ancient advice of Hippocrates play in endangered species conservation? by Mark Jerome Walters Second Chance Cloning could be the Holy Grail of conservation or the ultimate folly. Either way, the fact is, cloning works. by Cynthia Mills Us or Them Killing predators stands as one of the most age-old and enduring forms of wildlife management. Even now, myth and politics trump ecology. Is there a way out? by William Stolzenburg One Big Fix A prominent scientist's proposal for countering climate change says volumes about our plight. by Elizabeth Kolbert |
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Evolutionary Tinkering A small group of latter-day Noahs is beginning to explore radical new ways to help species ride out the current wave of extinctions. by Scott Norris Dig Deeper When context is lost, what kind of tales can biological relics tell? Paleoecologists are forcing us again and again to rethink what was once established fact. by Douglas Fox Fish Futures George Sugihara thinks the way fish quotas are set is all wrong. Instead, he wants to tap into people's baser instincts by treating fish catches like tradable poker chips. by Rex Dalton |
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Democratizing Taxonomy Imagine a portable DNA barcode scanner that could transform people’s relationship with nature. Could such futuristic technology be to biodiversity what the printing press was to literacy? by Marguerite Holloway Get Real Behind the hue and cry over the Kyoto climate change treaty is one nagging but rarely reported reality: even if every nation in the world complied to the hilt, it would hardly approach solving the problem. by Katherine Ellison Aux Barricades! Fortress conservation is making a come-back. by Jon Christensen How Do You Measure What You Can't See? How do you know what you don't know? How do you know when you know enough, or when you need to know more? by Alan Burdick |
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Connecting Flights Never mind the road map for peace. An unlikely marriage between bird conservation and military aviation is thriving on one of the most divisive pieces of real estate on Earth. by Frances Cairncross Where the Wild Things Were The recent Nature paper proposing to bring cheetahs, lions, and elephants to North America raised a wild rumpus. But are the critics missing the point? by William Stolzenburg Raising the Bar on Kyoto New standards require projects to save more than just carbon. by Adelheid Fischer |
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