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Biodiversity

An image of a hand holding Earth under text | Illustration: Lex Villena; Gabriel Blaj

Environmentalism

Happy Earth Day! Reason Recycles 5 Decades of Environmental Coverage

A selection of Reason's most incisive articles on population, pollution, resource depletion, biodiversity, energy, climate change, and the ideological environmentalists' penchant for peddling doom.

Ronald Bailey | 4.21.2023 1:30 PM

'Tickets for the Ark' hammers home that there is no objective value neutral ecological baseline towards which conservation must aim. | Keng Po Leung | Dreamstime.com

Biodiversity

The Myth of Wild Nature and Creating a New Form of Paradise

A review of the new book Tickets For The Ark, by Rebecca Nesbit

Ronald Bailey | 12.25.2022 7:00 AM

Butterflies | Ioana Grecu / Dreamstime.com

Brickbats

Brickbat: Fly Away

Charles Oliver | 8.2.2022 4:00 AM

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Biden Administration

Will Biden's '30 by 30' Conservation Plan Protect Both Property Rights and Wild Landscapes?

"Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest," wrote naturalist Aldo Leopold.

Ronald Bailey | 5.7.2021 2:15 PM

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Apocalypse

The 'Insect Apocalypse' Has Been Canceled

At least in the United States, according to a new study

Ronald Bailey | 8.13.2020 1:25 PM

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Farming

It's Possible To Cut Cropland Use in Half and Produce the Same Amount of Food, Says New Study

Restoring up to 2.2 million square miles to nature

Ronald Bailey | 4.17.2020 3:04 PM

A real green solution to climate change | Smileus/Dreamstime

Climate Change

Peak Farmland Helps Solve Climate Change

It also protects and restores imperiled biodiversity.

Ronald Bailey | 7.16.2019 5:20 PM

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Environmentalism

The World Is Getting Better, Declare Op-Eds in Leading Newspapers

Doomslayer Julian Simon vindicated after 40 years.

Ronald Bailey | 1.14.2019 12:40 PM

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Extinction

Wild Animal Populations Down 60 Percent Since 1970

But economic growth will reverse this trend by sparing lots more land for nature during this century.

Ronald Bailey | 10.31.2018 4:15 PM

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The End of Doom

The Coming Century of Environmental Renewal

A new article in BioScience vindicates The End of Doom.

Ronald Bailey | 4.23.2018 4:29 PM

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Nature

Humanity Isn't Destroying the Natural World. We're Changing It.

Welcome to Anthropocene Park.

Ronald Bailey | 2.25.2018 6:00 AM

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Paul Ehrlich

Population Doomster Paul Ehrlich's New Forecast: 'Biological Annihilation'

New predictions of animal population doom are likely exaggerated.

Ronald Bailey | 7.12.2017 11:30 AM

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Biodiversity

Predictions of the Death of Wilderness May Be a Bit Premature

Most people are moving to cities and peak farmland is in the offing

Ronald Bailey | 9.9.2016 4:10 PM

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