The Revelator
The Revelator is a digital platform created by the Center for Biological Diversity, dedicated to delivering independent news, insights, and stories that connect politics, conservation, art, culture, endangered species, climate change, economics, and the future of our planet's wildlife and natural spaces. Our goals include: - Holding politicians and corporations accountable through sharp reporting on environmental matters. - Offering thorough and on-the-ground perspectives on current conservation news. - Encouraging a national dialogue involving the public, lawmakers, environmental organizations, scientists, and scholars about critical environmental issues. - Advocating for transparency and encouraging community involvement. - Uncovering misconduct, highlighting positive initiatives, shedding light on neglected issues, inspiring action, and exploring innovative solutions to protect wildlife, communities, and the Earth. We uphold the highest standards in journalism and intellectual discourse, driven by a deep passion for nature.
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therevelator.org | John R. Platt
These are dark times for public lands in the United States, and few people know that better than the hosts of the true-crime podcast “National Park After Dark.”Over the past four years, hosts Cassie Yahnian and Danielle LaRock have recorded hundreds of episodes about the occasionally dark histories of public lands across the United States and around the world.
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2 weeks ago |
therevelator.org | John R. Platt
Thirteen years after a bloody tragedy, an okapi has come to live in Epulu. The village in the Democratic Republic of Congo is also the headquarters of a nonprofit called the Okapi Conservation Project, which was established to preserve its namesake species. The organization once cared for more than a dozen okapis there, who served as “ambassadors” to showcase how important it was to protect these rarely seen, zebra-like animals.
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3 weeks ago |
therevelator.org | John R. Platt
The Earth has a new threat: massive computer data centers. A recent study predicted that these data centers — which already consume about 1.5% of global electricity — will double their energy usage in the next five years, to about 945 terawatt hours a year. To put that in perspective, a single terawatt hour could power all of California for a week and half. The culprit in this massive increase in energy consumption? Generative artificial intelligence (AI).
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3 weeks ago |
therevelator.org | Melissa Gaskill
Hurricane Charley made landfall on the Florida Gulf Coast near Fort Myers on Aug. 13, 2004, driving a six-plus-foot storm surge that destroyed vegetation in 95% of mangrove forests on four-square-mile North Captiva Island. In 2022 Hurricane Ian’s storm surge topped 10 feet on 10.5-square-mile Sanibel Island, just south of Captiva, killing most of its mangrove trees.
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1 month ago |
therevelator.org | David Shiffman
The single greatest threat to the diversity of life in our oceans over the past 50 years, more than climate change or plastic pollution, has been unsustainable fishing practices. In much of the ocean, there is little to no regulation or oversight of commercial fishing or other human activities. That’s part of the reason about a tenth of marine plant and animal species are considered threatened or at risk. It’s also why countries around the world have been creating marine protected areas.
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