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Biden returns US to Paris climate accord hours after becoming president

January 20, 2021January 21, 2021ecolightenment

Joe Biden has moved to reinstate the US to the Paris climate agreement just hours after being sworn in as president, as his administration rolls out a cavalcade of executive orders aimed at tackling the climate crisis. Biden’s executive action, signed in the White House on Wednesday, will see the US rejoin the international effort […]

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Why some US cities are plotting a ‘green recovery’ after the pandemic

September 18, 2020September 18, 2020ecolightenment

The cars that typically throng the huge highways weaving through Los Angeles are such an established part of the city’s fabric that when the coronavirus pandemic hit, their sudden absence felt bizarre to locals even eerie. But many Angelenos have now discovered a new sort of relationship with their streets. “People have felt they own […]

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Shoots and leaves: the shotgun scientist who hunts moving trees

September 17, 2020September 18, 2020ecolightenment

Angelica Patterson is on the lookout, shotgun in hand, as she hikes through New York state’s Black Rock Forest. She focuses on her target high up in the canopy, then bang – a branch falls to the ground. “I can’t climb trees, building scaffolding is expensive, and using a slingshot requires a lot of skill,” […]

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Can a 2,000ft fence save Hawaii’s rare native birds from destruction?

August 28, 2020September 2, 2020ecolightenment

Before the first Polynesian settlers arrived roughly 1,500 years ago, the Hawaiian Islands were ruled from the sky. Not a single land-dwelling reptile or mammal called the archipelago home – just winged insects, one variety of bat, and a truly vast array of birds. While Hawaii is still flush with life today, many of those […]

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California’s only known wolf pack produces new litter of pups

July 27, 2020July 28, 2020ecolightenment

The only known wolf family in California has produced a new litter of pups, its fourth, building on a gradual recovery of the species in the US west. The Lassen pack apparently lost its original father, a wolf not spotted since June last year. But a new male has joined the pack, resulting in the […]

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Los Angeles to build world’s largest wildlife bridge across 10-lane freeway

August 21, 2019August 26, 2019ecolightenment

Engineers in southern California are hard at work designing the biggest wildlife corridor in the world, to extend over US Highway 101 to the north-west of Los Angeles. A wildlife corridor, the biggest in the world, is planned to extend over Highway 101 north-west of Lost Angeles. Photograph: RCD of the Santa Monica Mountains, Clark […]

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A humpback whale breaches in New York Bight, one of the busiest waterways in the world. Photograph: WCS Ocean Giants

‘They are amazed’: New York City sees extraordinary leap in whale sightings

June 3, 2019June 4, 2019ecolightenment

For most New Yorkers, wildlife spotting is confined to squirrels, the odd raccoon and anguished encounters with rats. But in the waters surrounding the city a very different animal experience is quietly booming: sightings of whales. A total of 272 whales were spotted in New York City waters last year, according to the citizen science […]

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‘They’re no different from us’: the woman who follows urban coyotes

February 26, 2019February 27, 2019ecolightenment

San Francisco’s resident Coyote Lady met her first coyote early one cool June morning on Twin Peaks, one of the city’s tallest hills. The coyote was a curious little thing, prancing here and there, dashing up the hill, and then down, all the while watching this strange creature and her dog. “She ran this way, […]

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‘Wiped out before our eyes’: Hawaii offers bold plan to stop shark killings

February 9, 2019February 9, 2019ecolightenment

Credit: Pixabay Sharks could soon become more numerous in Hawaii waters – and advocates say that’s a good thing. Lawmakers in Honolulu advanced a proposed ban on killing sharks in state waters on Wednesday, after receiving hundreds of calls and letters of support from around the country. The law, which would provide sweeping protection for […]

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