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Many of the effects of the twin crises of climate change and the loss of biodiversity can feel as though they’re happening to us. They are, journalists often write, forces to be battled, or storms to be weathered. Each of the volumes on Mongabay’s year-end book list deals in one way or another. But each […]

The best fiction, nonfiction, history and sci-fi books Scientific American staff read in 2023

This week, we encourage you to try a new memoir or biography.

Journalist Gloria Dickie has been traveling the world documenting the status of every bear species, many of which she says face a “tough future.” Her chronicles of these charismatic ursine individuals can be read in her new book, Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future. Notable conservation success stories, such as that of the giant […]

A new book tells the story of eight bear species and their travails | Culture

In April this year, a jogger in the Italian Alps was mauled to death by a brown bear. This was reported as the first bear killing in Italy in modern times. But it probably won’t be the last. Bears have been reappearing in northern Italy as part of a rewilding project in the last two

Extreme heat and other weather events are driving bears closer to humans’ campgrounds and hiking trails—and that’s no good for either species

The terrifying and life-changing experience of thallium poisoning. Plus, taking part in genetic studies might be in your genes, and medicine’s problem with flawed and fake data. The terrifying and life-changing experience of thallium poisoning. Plus, taking part in genetic studies might be in your genes, and medicine’s problem with flawed and fake data.

Gloria Dickie is an award-winning journalist and currently a global climate and environment correspondent at Reuters News Agency. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, the Guardian, National Geographic, Scientific American, and Wired, among others. She is the author of Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future.

With urban areas expanding and climate change shrinking bears’ habitats, the animals’ interactions with humans will make — or break — efforts to preserve their populations. With urban areas expanding and climate change shrinking bears’ habitats, the animals’ interactions with humans will make — or break — efforts to preserve their populations.