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Featured environment & conservation stories

Mysterious sea urchin plague is spreading through the world’s oceans

Science, May 2024

Microorganism that kills victims within days leaps from Caribbean to the Red Sea, alarming marine scientists

Shark kills rise to more than 100 million per year—despite antifinning laws

Science, January 2024

The first tally of global shark mortality reveals an upward trend

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Closing the Loop: From Waste to Food Security

Ka Pili Kai, August 2025

To tackle the climate and economic impacts of food waste, Hawaiʻi communities are composting, food banking, and feeding scraps to pigs

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Deforestation lessens Amazon rainfall, and climate change hastens that process

AGU Newsroom, May 2026

As climate change intensifies, deforestation from agriculture may leave crops with too little rainfall to thrive

Other environment & conservation stories

The front edge of a wildfire burning through a coniferous forest in the daytime, with plumes of smoke following behind, seen from above

Western U.S. wildfires have gotten less frequent, though larger

AGU Newsroom
April 2026

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