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Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature

Preserving Human Life Requires Preserving Insect Life

by Aaron Gilbreath November 29, 2018October 19, 2022

While science labors to comprehend the variety and volume of insects on earth, both are declining with disturbing speed, and the ecological consequences are troubling.

Posted inBlog Post, Profiles & Interviews

Our Planet Still Has Secrets: Talking Tasmanian Tigers with Journalist Brooke Jarvis

by Aaron Gilbreath July 5, 2018October 19, 2022

Investigating the people who search for the extinct Tasmanian Tiger.

Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature

Here Be Tigers

by Aaron Gilbreath June 27, 2018October 19, 2022

If thousands of Australians claim to have seen the Tasmanian Tiger in the wild, then did it really go extinct in 1936?

Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature

Can the Jaguars’ Unique Biology Help It Survive On Our Over-Populated Planet?

by Aaron Gilbreath May 22, 2018October 19, 2022

By avoiding confrontations with humans, and using water and edge-lands, jaguars might be ideally suited to surviving the modern world.

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