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With the approach of the annual Earth Day activities, we offer 12 big picture books on biodiversity, oceans, food, and waste. For April’s bookshelf we take a cue from Earth Day and step back to look at the bigger picture. It wasn’t climate change that motivated people to attend the teach-ins and protests that marked that first observance in 1970; it was pollution, the destruction of wild lands and habitats, and the consequent deaths of species. The earliest Earth Days raised awareness, led ...

Erik Petersen/Washington Post via Getty Images , a new Vox reporting initiative on the science, politics, and economics of the biodiversity crisis. You don’t have to look far to find signs that wildlife is in peril. And most of the news stories about it these days follow a predictable formula: Species are going extinct and, in most cases, humans are to blame. To be clear, that’s true, and there’s every reason to be alarmed. A report from September, for example, found that the populations...

A Reason for Hope In July 1960, at the age of 26, Jane Goodall traveled to what is now Tanzania and ventured into the little-known world of wild chimpanzees. Her work transformed our understanding of chimpanzees and redefined the relationship between humans and animals in ways that continue to resonate around the world. Over the past 60 years, Dr. Goodall has not only shown us the urgent need to protect chimpanzees from extinction; she has also redefined species conservation to include the n...

How to listen to all of Vox’s Earth Month podcasts From climate change policy to clean energy technology, these episodes focus on ways to solve the environmental crisis. Share this story Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images This April, Vox’s podcasts are teaming up to cover some of the most important issues threatening life on Earth. From sustainability to biodiversity to straight-up cool things about the natural world, we’ll focus on our planet and its limits in episodes through...

In physics, the Doppler effect describes how a noise like a coming train will always sound different when it approaches than when it recedes. The noise itself is the same, but your perspective changes, and with it, the pitch enters a new frequency. Reading about history can ignite a similar feeling, showing how, say, social battles that once seemed futile were actually progressing all along. Such is the case with Beloved Beasts unwinds a history of human efforts to protect the loss of other...

If we are all to become conservationists, the conservation movement must embrace its own complexity—and perspectives left out in the past

W.W. Norton & Co., $27.95 On October 29, 1929, a date best remembered for the infamous Black Tuesday stock market crash, socialite and amateur bird watcher Rosalie Edge attended a meeting of the National Association of Audubon Societies. She was there to ask whether it was true, as a pamphlet had claimed, that the organization supported bounties on bald eagles in Alaska and turning wildlife refuges into shooting grounds. The men who led the organization were outraged that she brought up the iss...

Human nature and ‘Beloved Beasts’ How best can we protect and defend the same animal kingdom we endanger? By Dan Cryer Globe Correspondent,Updated March 4, 2021, 2:38 p.m. Email to a Friend On Oct. 29, 1929, at the annual meeting of the National Association of Audubon Societies [ sic], a hitherto-unknown upper-crust birdwatcher from Manhattan’s Upper East Side rose from the audience to address the society’s directors. Rosalie Edge, a former suffragist, wasn’t intimid...