Humpback whales spout out slow, but steady recovery
Humpback whales are making a comeback south of the equator.
Appeals court overturns Obama-era ESA designation of “critical habitat” for jaguars
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals March 17 ruled that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s (FWS) 2014 designation of 764,207 acres (about 115 square miles) of land in Arizona and New Mexico as “critical habitat” for the jaguar was “arbitrary and capricious” and declared FWS’s action illegal.
The real reasons Africa has another locust plague
The UN, environmentalist pressure groups and their financial backers have a lot to answer for.
Migratory Bird Treaty Act reform will clarify longstanding confusion
Uncertainty breeds inefficiency. Clarifying the law on migratory birds will cut red tape... if reforms survive legal challenge.
Can the Key Largo Woodrat win its game of cat and mouse?
Today, conservationists are making some headway – but their efforts are being stymied by a cute and cuddly menace: namely, cats.
New initiatives help jaguars paw their way back
Wildlife officials are cracking down on illegal poaching and a number of residents are voluntarily turning from ranching to farming in order to help the cat paw its way back to healthy numbers. Their efforts appear to be working.
Will humanity survive self-hatred?
For some people the world can't end fast enough.
Like polar bears, coral reefs are doing fine
Corals have lived throughout the oceans of our planet for many thousand years. Over those many years they have experienced both much warmer and much colder periods of geologic time.
Greta preaches many of the first Earth Day’s failed predictions
In 1970 the news of our demise was greatly exaggerated. There's a lesson here for Greta Thunberg (if she shows up at school).
Howls erupt over proposed removal of gray wolves from endangered species list
Despite the wolf’s rebound, environmental groups are threatening to take FWS to court over the delisting.
Prescribed burns, thinning helps forests tackle wildfires
To burn, or not to burn. That is the question.
Will biotech help feed humanity with salt tolerant plants?
How to contend with increasing crop yields, especially in the developing world, in less than desirable soil? Biotechnology may provide an answer.
The oceans cannot become acidic, period
There is little chance of large changes in pH.
Keeping Africa on the brink of starvation
UN and EU government agencies – and tax-exempt NGOs – have brought a plague of locusts
Population Bombed!
We've got a great new book available at the CFACT Store called Population Bombed! that explodes population myths from Malthus to today.