Category: Environment

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Strings of eggs from breeding pairs of the Houston toad at the Fort Worth Zoo are prepared for release into a pond at Griffith League Ranch. Each bag of eggs is filled with local pond water to acclimatize them to temperature and water quality and then emptied into floating bags that will help protect the eggs as they develop into tadpoles. Julia Robinson for Vox

Inside the audacious mission to bring a rare toad back from the brink

The amphibian “IVF clinic” fighting to save the first amphibian ever afforded federal protections. Strings of eggs from breeding pairs of the Houston toad at the Fort Worth Zoo are prepared for release into a pond at Griffith League Ranch. Each bag of eggs is

Coyote

The Coyote Next Door

What urban wildlife can teach us about cognition, survival and how to be good neighbors. Standing in a thicket of poplars, surrounded by tangled brush and magpie chatter, there’s an air of wilderness. But reminders of the urban world beyond the trees are everywhere: the

US push to turn farm manure into renewable energy draws concerns

AMES, IOWA – In a gathering that drew the attendance of both farmers and Wall Street financiers, US regulators joined with oil giant Chevron at a November conference here to promote what backers promise will be a monumental breakthrough – systemic changes that would turn