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Skinned for Profit: How Global Trade Is Driving Africa’s Donkeys to the Brink

Millions of animals are slaughtered each year for use in traditional Chinese medicine — a trade that’s devastating many African communities.
September 22, 2025
by
Roman Goergen
Millions of animals are slaughtered each year for use in traditional Chinese medicine — a trade that’s devastating many African communities.
Investigations

Russia’s Ukraine Invasion Causes a Deadly Oil Spill on the Black Sea

Russia’s “shadow fleet” of aging oil tankers helps fund the ongoing war but puts the region at risk of more environmental disasters.
March 17, 2025
by
Ruchi Kumar
Russia’s “shadow fleet” of aging oil tankers helps fund the ongoing war but puts the region at risk of more environmental disasters.
Investigations

Cash for Corals: Exploiting Ecosystems on Their Way to Extinction

Experts say the growing commercial trade in wild, threatened species like corals is unacceptable and irresponsible.
February 25, 2025
by
Tracy Keeling
Experts say the growing commercial trade in wild, threatened species like corals is unacceptable and irresponsible.
Exxon protest
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Trump Administration Seeks to Muzzle Activist Shareholders

The SEC has proposed rules that could reduce shareholder proposals for environmental, social and sustainable governance issues, while providing cover for corporations like Exxon Mobil.
April 27, 2020
by
Christine MacDonald
The SEC has proposed rules that could reduce shareholder proposals for environmental, social and sustainable governance issues, while providing cover for corporations like Exxon Mobil.
Ruby Mountains
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Ruby Mountains: A Push to Drill, a Failure to Consult Native Peoples

A plan to lease oil and gas drilling rights on nearly a million acres of land near the Te-Moak Tribe of the Western Shoshone illustrates the consistent lack of government consultation with tribes.
April 3, 2019
by
Tiffany Higgins
A plan to lease oil and gas drilling rights on nearly a million acres of land near the Te-Moak Tribe of the Western Shoshone illustrates the consistent lack of government consultation with tribes.
Ocean plastic pollution
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Plastic Pollution: Could We Have Solved the Problem Nearly 50 Years Ago?

What if we’d listened to the researchers who first warned us about plastic pollution in the 1970s?
March 26, 2019
by
Erica Cirino
What if we’d listened to the researchers who first warned us about plastic pollution in the 1970s?
Avian influenza test
Investigations

Could Trump’s Government Shutdown Cause Outbreaks of Wildlife Disease?

Experts warn that the shutdown has furloughed or hobbled personnel responsible for diagnosing and detecting wildlife diseases.
January 16, 2019
by
Erica Cirino
Experts warn that the shutdown has furloughed or hobbled personnel responsible for diagnosing and detecting wildlife diseases.
rhino horn
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Scales, Horns and Skins: Available Online, All Day, Everyday

Increased access to the Internet is facilitating rampant online wildlife trade, providing an attractive marketplace to sellers and buyers.
July 19, 2018
by
Roxanne Joseph, Oxpeckers
Increased access to the Internet is facilitating rampant online wildlife trade, providing an attractive marketplace to sellers and buyers.
Trump appointees
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Operating Under the Radar: Top Zinke Aides Undermine Protections for Public Lands and Endangered Species

David Bernhardt, Greg Sheehan and Susan Combs are implementing Trump’s energy-dominance agenda while ignoring Congress and the public.
April 18, 2018
by
John Dougherty
David Bernhardt, Greg Sheehan and Susan Combs are implementing Trump’s energy-dominance agenda while ignoring Congress and the public.
Rio Grande sewage
Investigations

U.S.-Mexico Commission Fails to Stop Sewage Plaguing Border

The Trump administration is backing away from treaty mandate to “give preferential attention to the solution of all border sanitation problems.”
March 29, 2018
by
John Dougherty
The Trump administration is backing away from treaty mandate to “give preferential attention to the solution of all border sanitation problems.”

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