In Angola, Conservationists Make the Case for a Massive New National Park
The east-central and southeastern section of Angola, including the province of Cuando Cubango, was home to Jonas Savimbi, who led the U.S.-backed UNITA faction. UNITA, now a political party, draws its support from this region, and at times the place can feel almost like an independent country. Costa says that when she was growing up…
Restoring Rights for 10 Percent of Potential Florida Voters
Phelan M. Ebenhack/The Washington Post Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. He did his time. Now, 14 years after being released from prison, Desmond Meade is registered to vote. Submitting his voter registration form last week, Meade described the moment as “very, very emotional.” And he has himself to thank: Meade led…
It’s Time to Start Eating Roadkill
Jessica Matthews/The Washington Post via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. My mother texts me four photos of a dead moose the week I leave Alaska. It is freshly hit. The pebbled pink brains…
Overflowing Port-a-Potties and Trash—This Is What National Parks Are Like During a Government Shutdown
Large groups continue to pour into Joshua Tree National Park despite the government shutdown.Nick Kirkpatrick/Washington Post/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since the government shutdown began on December 22, the nation’s 417 parks, battlefields, and monuments have become unsupervised playgrounds—open to the public with few, if any, staffers to rein…
Puerto Rico May Hold the Answer to Saving the Bees
Manuel Giannoni Guzman Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The quick succession of Hurricanes Irma and Maria knocked out Puerto Rico’s electricity and displaced thousands of people from their homes. The storms also wreaked havoc on much smaller members of the island’s population: Billions of wild and domesticated bees were uprooted…
Exploding Ants, Rainbow Slugs, and Tiny Seahorses: 11 New Species Discovered This Year
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Considering there are nearly eight billion people on Earth, and that more and more species are being pushed into extinction by climate change, habitat destruction, and pollution, it may seem like there would be few species left for humans to discover. In fact, there could be up to a…