Good News for the Environment

The government of French Polynesia announced it is expanding the extent of ocean where extractive industries like seabed mining and industrial fishing will not be allowed. With this move, 30% of French Polynesia’s waters will now be fully protected.

For the country's 250th anniversary, Smithsonian curators draw different kinds of maps that tell a story beyond state lines.

The major wildlife corridor project includes 19 rope bridges, 24 underpasses, and two land bridges for local fauna.

Installed in 2021, local officials now say that there has been a “substantial reduction” in casualties for the endangered species.

Globally, the loggerhead population has decreased by 47% over the past three generations.

One of the conservationists working to protect the species called the sighting “huge news.”

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Heating and cooling buildings consumes 35% of all the energy used in the United States each year. Electric-powered heat pumps could be revolutionary.

Bowser, a 172-pound loggerhead sea turtle, was rescued from the Navarre Beach Fishing Pier recently. The operation was one of a growing number of rescues in areas where sea turtles and humans overlap.

Conservationists in Queensland, Australia “turned to mush upon seeing the images.”

The new hatchling, which will be named by the public, is the child of mother and father pancake tortoises Waffle and Maple.

As turtle nesting season comes to a head, volunteers are needed to keep the endangered eggs safe.