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Jeremy Hance

@jeremyhance.bsky.social
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He/him. Journalist #environment, #climate and #wildlife. Senior Contributing Editor at Mongabay. Also, author of Baggage: Confessions of a Globetrotting Hypochondriac. Toiling on a novel set in Ancient Greece. Loves D&D and good books too.

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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Some good news – with so much room to grow! news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
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World Oceans Day: Marine protected areas surpass 10% mark in 2026
World Oceans Day is celebrated every June 8 to raise awareness about the conservation of Earth’s oceans. In honor of World Oceans Day 2026, the United Nations is focused on marine protected areas (MPA...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
A really fun list! #books I've read 60 of the 100. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
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Top 100 reader novels
After authors and critics chose their top 100 novels, we asked for your favourites. From Uruguay to the Isle of Skye, 3,000 readers cast their votes. Here are the titles that made your list – topped b...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Oh. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Global sea levels have been underestimated due to poor modelling, research suggests
Analysis shows average levels are 30cm higher than thought, and up to 150cm in south-east Asia and Indo-Pacific
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Conservationists are struggling, so I wrote this special article about mental health in the sector. Give it a read!
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‘An epidemic of suffering’: Why are conservationists breaking down?
In December 2024, Rachel Graham, executive director of the Belize-based marine nonprofit MarAlliance, posted on LinkedIn that she knew “5 wildlife & conservation scientists who have taken their lives ...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
My latest on Mongabay. An interview with the inimitable Paul Rosolie! news.mongabay.com/2026/02/a-jo...
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A journey from student to Amazon “Junglekeeper”: Interview with Paul Rosolie
Paul Rosolie has had a career unlike any other. First traveling to the Peruvian Amazon at the age of 18, Rosolie partnered with Juan Julio Durand, a local member of the Infierno Indigenous group. Toge...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Need some good news today? This made me happy!
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Green turtle rebounds, moving from ‘endangered’ to ‘least concern’
The green turtle, found across the world’s oceans, is recovering after decades of decline, according to the latest IUCN Red List assessment. The species has been reclassified from endangered to least ...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Unfortunately, you can no longer believe everything you see. #conservation news.mongabay.com/2026/01/wild...
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Wildlife attacks and strange animal behavior — fake images spark conservation concerns
When Houssein Rayaleh received a WhatsApp message from a local ecotourism guide showing footage of a lioness in Djibouti, he was excited. The video showed the big cat running directly in front of a mo...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
My latest article for Mongabay is a doozy! #ClimateChange
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Can we create new inland seas to lower sea level rise? Interview with researcher Amir AghaKouchak
Sea levels are rising, threatening coastal areas, including cities, around the world. Due to climate change, the global ocean has already risen by 21-24 centimeters (about 8-9.5 inches) since 1880, an...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
As climate change pummels coral reefs, scientists are looking at a new way to restore reefs. Although some think it's a waste of effort and $$$ – believing these coral reefs are already doomed, because, you know, climate change. news.mongabay.com/2025/10/maur...
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Mauritius rethinks coral restoration as reefs suffer from another mass bleaching
PORT LOUIS, Mauritius — Seeing coral reefs can color one’s monochrome view of the ocean forever. In the pink of health — and red, blue, green and purple — corals resemble underwater fireworks, forming...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
"It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar." www.butlernature.com/2025/10/24/r...
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Requiem for the Christmas Island Shrew
The Cry That Faded It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar. Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, moving through the roots and leaf litter of a tiny island in the Indian Ocean...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
C'mon
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Christmas Island shrew officially declared extinct: IUCN
The Christmas Island shrew, a tiny mammal once found only on the Australian island of the same name, has been declared officially extinct. It’s at least the fourth small mammal species to be wiped out...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Here's the question: is the Asian unicorn still out there?
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To track a unicorn: Laos team goes all out to find the last saolas
Few people have the opportunity to meet near-mythical beasts in real life — but Rob Timmins has. He’s one of the few biologists ever to spend time with a saola, a wild ox once known as the “Asian unic...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
More proof that humans ate the Pleistocene megafauna to extinction!
phys.org
Early humans dined on giant sloths and other Ice Age giants, archaeologists find
What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
One of the highlights of my career was interviewing Jane Goodall in 2010. Yes, she was one of the greatest scientists of all time, but it was her kindness that always got me. We need more of that in the world! And I miss her. Here's the interview: news.mongabay.com/2010/04/jane...
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Jane Goodall renews her faith in nature and humanity during the “Gombe 50” anniversary, An interview with Dr. Jane Goodall
Celebrating 50 years of pioneering research and sharing an inspiring vision for our future, world-renowned primatologist and conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall renews her faith in nature and humanity du...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
If you read one article on Jane Goodall, read @mongabay.com's eulogy of her life and her hope!
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Jane Goodall (1934–2025): primatologist, conservationist, and messenger of hope
Jane Goodall, who revealed the intimate lives of chimpanzees and gave the modern world a language of hope, has died at the age of 91. Over the course of six decades, she moved from an unlikely young r...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I'm in denial. And I'm going to stay there a bit.
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Biologists: any record of this in the past? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Labrador visitor gets front row seat to fight between black bear and polar bear | CBC News
A photo of a fight between a black bear and polar bear on the northern tip of Labrador is making the rounds on social media — something many are saying they've never seen before.
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
So happy to have appeared on Wild Green Streams for Ecological Fiends to talk all things Sumatran rhinos! open.spotify.com/episode/1zX8...
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A rhino poo clue could bring new zoo breakthrough: if it's true blue
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
In January, scientists are headed to Antarctica to study whether or not we could put a giant curtain to stop the Doomsday glacier from breaking down. #climate #Geoengineering Great piece by @gloriadickie.bsky.social for @mongabay.com. news.mongabay.com/2025/09/scie...
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Scientists weigh giant sea curtain to shield ‘Doomsday Glacier’ from melting
Thwaites Glacier rises above the Amundsen Sea in the Antarctic, a towering white cliff abutting cerulean waters. Roughly the size of Great Britain and spanning 120 kilometers (80 miles) across, Thwait...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
There is a debate going on about how much storage is actually available for CO2. This matters because we will need A LOT of storage to stave off the worst of the #ClimateCrisis (given that enormity of the problem). From @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2025/09/glob...
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Global CO2 storage capacity may be drastically overstated, study finds
A new analysis suggests that the “prudent” storage available for carbon dioxide to head off further global warming is more limited than other recent estimates. Accounting for the risks associated with...
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The Samoa Conservation Society has a fundraising page set up to help their team *find the last of the little dodos* They believe Samoa's iconic & critically endangered "manumea" are still among its rich rainforests & folks who love #birds or #birding can go here to send $upport:
givealittle.co.nz
Save Samoa's National Bird- the Manumea- to save Samoa's Natural Heritage!
Saving the Manumea will save Samoa's threatened biodiversity and increase community resilience to climate change and other threats.
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
One of my favorite species, the little dodo (or manumea), has gone missing! This weird pigeon looks and acts more like a parrot – an evolutionary marvel. This is a species that DESPERATELY needs support & funding to try and rediscover it. @mongabay.com #birds news.mongabay.com/2025/09/fund...
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Funding is needed to save Samoa’s ‘little dodo’ from extinction (commentary)
It’s early August 2025. Deep in the rainforests of Upolu, on the island of Samoa, Moeumu “Moe” Uili and I have paused our hike, counting the seconds between coo calls from an unseen pigeon hidden in t...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I got a chance to talk all things Rhinos on Sea Change Radio. Sumatran rhinos, Javan rhinos, and the poaching trade that's putting these species and other rhinos in deep peril. Check it out here: www.cchange.net
cchange.net
Sea Change Radio
A nationally syndicated weekly radio show and podcast covering the shift to social, environmental, and economic sustainability.
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
If only he could have done something about it...
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Trump’s second presidency is ‘most dangerous period’ since second world war, Mitch McConnell says
Former Senate leader likens administration’s fixation with tariffs to isolationist policies of the US in the 1930s
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
A project that is bringing back megafauna to help fight fires in Spain. My latest for @mongabay.com !
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Rewilding project aims to restore resilience to fire-prone Spain via wildlife
Some 30,000 years ago, Stone Age people decorated a cave, today known as Cueva de los Casares, in central Spain with pictures of mating humans (most famously), geometric shapes, and animals. The most ...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Cool, cool, cool, cool. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds
Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Awesome to see @peoplemag.bsky.social paying attention to our work on Sumatran rhinos for @mongabay.com! More of this please – wildlife stories need more coverage if we're going to avoid biodiversity collapse. people.com/sniffer-dogs...
people.com
Trained Scent-Detection Dogs May Have Found a Lost and ‘Critically Endangered’ Rhino Population
Dogs sniffing for signs of the ‘critically endangered’ Sumatran rhinos may have found the elusive wild animals. According to a report from conservation news outlet Mongabay, the dogs ‘have discovered ...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Can Namibia's wildlife survive a hotter and drier world? Petro Kotze reports for @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2025/08/clim...
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Climate change tests the resilience of people and desert-adapted wildlife in Namibia
SESFONTEIN, Namibia ­­­— “I want my children to see a rhino with their own eyes — not only in Etosha [National Park],” says Sofia /Nuas, a member of the Sesfontein Conservancy Committee, located in Na...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The IUCN puts out rhino population numbers ever 3 years. This time the numbers for the two most endangered rhinos aren't great. Javan numbers down by a third, Sumatran rhinos stable, but on the edge of total extinction. My latest for @mongabay.com: news.mongabay.com/2025/08/java... :
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Javan rhino numbers plunge; Sumatran rhinos remain near extinction: Report
A new report by the IUCN finds that two of the world’s most endangered species are still perilously close to extinction. Javan rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicus) numbers have dropped by a third, from 76 ani...
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
#conservationoptimism Experts thought the critically endangered Sumatran rhino population in southern Sumatra's Way Kambas National Park had gone extinct But now Working Dogs for Conservation has detected several signs of them in the park, @jeremyhance.bsky.social reports for @mongabay.com
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Sniffer dogs may have rediscovered a lost population of Sumatran rhinos
Sumatran rhinos — hairy and noisy — were thought to have gone extinct from southern Sumatra for years. Then came the dogs. Recently, dogs with Working Dogs for Conservation have discovered what are be...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Beef is the biggest threat to wildlife worldwide. It's also helping fuel the climate crisis. Is there a better way to raise it? Or how much longer can we keep this up? Great piece by @john-cannon.bsky.social news.mongabay.com/2025/08/will...
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Will we still eat beef in 50 years?
When drought became a perennial visitor to the Beatty Canyon Ranch in Colorado in the late 1990s, Steve Wooten remembers telling his family, “We got to do something different.” Between 1997 and 2003, ...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Totally normal. Don't panic. All fine. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Great Barrier Reef suffers biggest annual drop in live coral since 1980s after devastating coral bleaching
Researchers warn reef may reach tipping point where coral cannot recover fast enough between major catastrophic events
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
"The Voting Rights Act is quite likely dead. Long live the Voting Rights Act." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Death of the Fourth American Republic
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Apollo is coming for this dude. And Apollo don't miss.
nypost.com
Tourist shocks onlookers after engaging in ‘disrespectful’ act at ancient Greek site: ‘Crossed the line’
Call him Jerk-ules.
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Could creating clouds help save the doomed Great Barrier Reef? Let's freaking hope so. Great reporting by @ferrisjabr.bsky.social! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/m...
nytimes.com
The Manmade Clouds That Could Help Save the Great Barrier Reef
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Now this would be a terrifying addition to the next Jurassic Park film. www.earth.com/news/shri-ra...
earth.com
Dinosaur discovered that killed with its thumbs instead of claws
Shri rapax was a small Gobi Desert predator with giant thumb claws. It hunted using grip strength instead of slashing feet.
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The land of the insane. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Trump's EPA to repeal finding that climate pollution endangers human health
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency's plan to rescind the finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health.
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Meanwhile...lower down in the @nytimes.com than a wildlife quiz www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
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Aid Groups Blame Israel’s Gaza Restrictions for ‘Mass Starvation’
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The overlooked tropical ecosystem! Liz Kimbrough explores if topical dry forests can survive the next half century. The answer? We need to act now. news.mongabay.com/2025/06/will...
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Will tropical dry forests survive the next 50 years?
In 1978, renowned ecologist Dan Janzen jumped into a ravine in Costa Rica, broke three ribs, and spent the first month of the rainy season watching the tropical dry forest from inside a shack. At nigh...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Some good news. news.mongabay.com/2025/06/pand...
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Pandemic-era slump in ivory and pangolin scale trafficking persists, report finds
A recent report surveying seizures of pangolin scales and elephant ivory over the past decade has found a sharp decline following the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from media reports, public documents...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
More horrifying than any horror movie. I wish I could say "great reporting!" (and it is!), but it's all veiled by terror.
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‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Not dire wolves. "Grey wolves with 20 [gene] edits."
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Colossal scientist now admits they haven’t really made dire wolves
Despite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, the company's chief scientist now concedes that the animals are merely modified grey wolve...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Can't say we weren't warned. Over and over and over again...Are we going to keep ignoring the warnings? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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More than 80% of the world’s reefs hit by bleaching after worst global event on record
An ashen pallor and an eerie stillness all that remains where there should be fluttering fish and vibrant colours in the reefscape, one conservationist says
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
How is this not a bigger story?
wsj.com
The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers
The world’s richest man juggles more than a dozen children and ‘harem drama’ along with running his companies and advising Trump. He recently took a paternity test in a battle with one woman over mone...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Shooting birds en masse doesn't make you a man.
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‘Trophies’ shared on social media reveal scale of mass bird slaughter in Lebanon
Every year, during the Northern Hemisphere spring and autumn, the skies over Lebanon are dotted with millions of birds on their epic migrations. From soaring Egyptian vultures (Neophron percnopterus) ...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Oh, I don't know, just a BABY COLOSSAL SQUID. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvpx...
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Live colossal squid captured on video in wild for first time ever
YouTube video by Guardian News
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Official confirmation now from USDA terminating the Expanding #Agroforestry Project effective immediately Amazing they didn’t work “woke” into this disdainful press release that will hobble climate smart ag and hurt actual farmers: www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It's an article that's been MONTHS in the making! How do we help prepare nature for a hotter world? I talked to some of the best conservationists out there to find out for @mongabay.bsky.social . The answers may be surprising! Link here: news.mongabay.com/2025/04/how-...
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How is conservation preparing for a much hotter world? Experts share
About 90 kilometers (56 miles) southeast of Cape Town lies the tranquilly-named town of Betty’s Bay in South Africa, home to less than 2,000 people. But it’s not the people that draw Nik Sekhran’s eye...
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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
HOLY SHIT! THIS IS REAL.
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The Return of the Dire Wolf
Colossal Biosciences has genetically engineered the first dire wolf to live in over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for other extinct species.
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