Resource Collection for the Sidebar
Please post any relevant, useful links you would like to add to the resource collection on the sidebar! :) Eventually I will go through my bookmarks too!
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If anyone would like to help me set up these communities and/or mod, please get in touch. This place is what we make it and I’d love some fresh ideas. I mod a number of smaller science subreddits and would like to help make this place just as nice, if not better!
[SciShow] How Leeches Are Helping to Save Endangered Species
Fall of the wild: why pristine wilderness is a human-made myth
Fall of the wild: why pristine wilderness is a human-made myth
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02761-3
Even ‘untouched’ natural landscapes bear witness to millennia of human influence, a lyrical book argues — with implications for how we seek to rewild them.
Winter crabbing strained Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab population. It may soon resume
US cave system’s bats and insects face existential threat: discarded Cheetos
US cave system’s bats and insects face existential threat: discarded Cheetos
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/10/cheetos-carlsbad-caverns-national-park
Full bag of snack left in cave occasioned National Park Service to educate public about delicate ecosystems
The controversial plan to turn a desert green | CNN
A photographer captures life in America’s last remaining old-growth forests
https://www.npr.org/sections/the-picture-show/2024/09/03/g-s1-5057/photographer-captures-life-in-old-growth-forests
Even desert plants known for their resilience are burning and dying in the heat
Even desert plants known for their resilience are burning and dying in the heat
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/desert-plants-burning-dying-heat-agave-saguaro-cacti-rcna166834
Agave and saguaro cacti, both heat-tolerant and drought-resistant, are suffering as climate change makes heat waves more frequent and intense.
Who wins from nature’s genetic bounty? The billions at stake in a global ‘biopiracy’ battle
Who wins from nature’s genetic bounty? The billions at stake in a global ‘biopiracy’ battle
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/29/nature-biodiversity-genetic-digital-sequencing-information-dsi-biopiracy-cop16-aoe
As multinationals and researchers harvest rare organisms around the world, anger is rising in the global south over the unpaid use of lucrative genetic codes found on their land
