Category: Ecology

• August 8, 2022

  The plastic crisis has deep corporate roots: to protect our planet, they need to be exposed

  

  Alice Mah, University of Warwick This spring, I taught a new undergraduate course in environmental sociology. Most of my students took the course because they were curious to see what their desire to live more sustainably had to do with sociology. By the third week – after a deep dive into the troubling connections between…
• July 27, 2022

  Monarch butterflies join the Red List of endangered species, thanks to habitat loss, climate change and pesticides

  

  Kristen A. Baum, Oklahoma State University On July 21, 2022, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature placed the migratory monarch butterfly on its Red List of threatened species and classified it as endangered. Monarchs migrate across North America each year and are one of the continent’s most widely recognized species. The Conversation asked…