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Nature

U.S. national park | Bryan Smith/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom

National Parks

The Gutting of the National Park Service

Plus: An attack on pro-Israel protesters in Colorado, a conservative wins Poland's presidential elections, and more...

Liz Wolfe | 6.2.2025 9:30 AM

Alligator | Susan Schmitz/Newscom

Florida

How Florida Law Makes Gator Encounters More Dangerous

Protections apply even when the animal is on your property and getting closer.

Autumn Billings | 5.7.2025 2:30 PM

abolishtheNationalParkService | Illustration: iStock

National Parks

Abolish the National Park Service

Revising how America's most beautiful public lands are protected would create more ways for Americans to interact with some of the best parts of the country.

Eric Boehm | 11.14.2024 6:00 AM

How to get through the election graphic with an open window and letting in fresh air | Illustration: Lex Villena; adapted from David Carillet | Dreamstime.com

Election 2024

To Get Through This Election, Get Some Fresh Air

Even light-intensity exercise has noticeable health benefits, and going for a walk is better than hoping the government will fix the healthcare system.

Joe Lancaster | 10.18.2024 9:45 AM

Horses graze in an open Tennessee pasture, with a barn deep in the background. | Kenn Stilger | Dreamstime.com

Surveillance

Tennessee Will Not Appeal Ruling Over Wildlife Agents Planting Cameras

While the decision is great news for Tennesseans, it's only the first step in reclaiming Americans' property rights against the open fields doctrine.

Joe Lancaster | 7.10.2024 5:00 PM

A fallen tree breaks through a wooden privacy fence. | Mrivserg | Dreamstime.com

Nature

Brickbat: Timber!

Charles Oliver | 2.8.2024 4:00 AM

An illustration of a bat and some bees | Photo: Andreas Häuslbetz/iStock Photo; Todd Cravens/Unsplash

Conservation

When Well-Intended Environmentalism Backfires

Housing bats, buying an E.V., and planting trees sometimes end up being counterproductive.

Mike Riggs | 1.28.2024 7:00 AM

The Best of Reason Magazine Logo | Joanna Andreasson

Florida

The Best of Reason: Meet Florida's Python Bounty Hunters

Eradication of the apex predator is "likely impossible."

Ronald Bailey | 12.19.2023 3:15 PM

Python Huntress Amy Siewe, one of Florida's Burmese python bounty hunters | Photo: Courtesy of Amy Siewe

Florida

Meet Florida's Python Bounty Hunters

Eradication of the apex predator is “likely impossible.”

Ronald Bailey | 12.9.2023 6:00 AM

The Best of Reason Magazine text on top of yellow grid | Joanna Andreasson

Environmentalism

The Best of Reason: The Endangered Species Act at 50

Why have so few species been taken off the endangered species list?

Tate Watkins | 11.28.2023 8:20 PM

An illustration of animals among green leaves | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson

Environmentalism

The Endangered Species Act at 50

Why have so few species been taken off the endangered species list?

Tate Watkins | 11.12.2023 6:00 AM

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Nuclear Power

New Study: Nuclear Power Is Humanity's Greenest Energy Option

Land-hungry biomass, wind, and solar power are set to occupy an area equivalent of the size of the European Union by 2050.

Ronald Bailey | 5.10.2023 4:42 PM

A falcon perched on the end of a falconer's gloved hand. | Emresalci | Dreamstime.com

Brickbats

Brickbat: For the Birds

Charles Oliver | 3.2.2023 4:00 AM

John Stossel is seen in front of a red sky and a city skyline | Stossel TV

Panic

No, the World Is Not Heading Toward 'Mass Extinction'

Despite an apocalyptic media narrative, the modern era has brought much longer lives and the greatest decline in poverty ever.

John Stossel | 1.25.2023 12:30 AM

'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

topicslifestyle | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson; Source images: ferrantraite/iStock; mycan/iStock

Lifestyle

Camping Liberates Kids and Parents

Something about camping seems to turn 21st century worriers into parents with positively Spielbergian nonchalance.

Lenore Skenazy | 6.29.2021 6:00 AM

topicsscience | Photo: crbellette/iStock

Science

Humanity and Wild Nature Will Likely Both Be Flourishing in 2100

Human ingenuity is enabling us to get ever more goods and services from fewer and fewer resources.

Ronald Bailey | 12.22.2020 6:00 AM

iconphotosfive629438 | David Rosenblum/Icon Sportswire DFH

Coronavirus

Let People Go Outside

Many public health experts say the benefits outweigh the risks.

Billy Binion | 5.5.2020 3:44 PM

CombineHarvesterDreamstime | Perolsson | Dreamstime.com

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

Environmentalism

Federal Court Invalidates "Lake Erie Bill of Rights"

Toledo's ballot initiative is "unconstitutionally vague and exceeds the power of municipal government in Ohio."

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 3.3.2020 7:29 AM

Looks tasty to me | Solar Foods

Biotechnology

Is Farm-Free Food the Future?

The end of agriculture draws nigh.

Ronald Bailey | 1.16.2020 4:00 PM

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Oceans

Widely Reported Alarming Ocean Warming Study Is Wrong

Skeptic of catastrophic climate change projections is right about significant errors in alarming new study.

Ronald Bailey | 11.14.2018 10:45 AM

Large image on homepages | Igor Stevanovic/Dreamstime

Farming

High Yield Modern Farming Better for the Environment, Says Nature Study

Low yield organic farming uses up lots more land and harms biodiversity

Ronald Bailey | 9.20.2018 1:00 PM

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Forests

Global Tree Cover Has Expanded More Than 7 Percent Since 1982

Satellite data finds that gains temperate and boreal forests offset reductions in tropical forests.

Ronald Bailey | 9.4.2018 1:00 PM

Large image on homepages | PublicAffairs

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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Malthusianism

Is Degrowth the Only Way to Save the World?

Welcome to the latest gussied up version of Malthusian eco-pessimism!

Ronald Bailey | 2.16.2018 12:02 PM

Large image on homepages | "Little Giant,"Nat Geo Wild

Television

Need a Breather Before May Sweeps? Here, Have a Baby Elephant

Nature documentary highlights the rough childhoods of pachyderms.

Glenn Garvin | 4.22.2016 3:00 PM

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Policy

Saving Earth's Biodiversity Through Markets and Technological Progress

A review of Half Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson

Ronald Bailey | 4.1.2016 1:30 PM

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Climate Sensitivity

Global Warming Hiatus Is Real

The rate of temperature increase has been dramatically slower than predicted, says Nature Climate Change.

Ronald Bailey | 2.24.2016 2:01 PM

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Environmentalism

Creating a Private Yellowstone: Environmental Entrepreneurship in Action

A model for how to voluntarily rewild North America.

Ronald Bailey | 12.28.2015 5:37 PM

Large image on homepages | Deanster1983 who's mostly off for a while / photo on flickr

Policy

Maryland Man Fined $50 for Picking Berries in Park

A Maryland man received a $50 ticket for picking raspberries. The ticket charged him with "destroying/interfering with plants to wit: berries."

Baylen Linnekin | 8.29.2015 8:00 AM

Large image on homepages | Courtesy of Nat Geo Wild

Glenn Garvin TV Reviews

How Human Are Monkeys?

Sunday night's National Geographic documentary shows warfare, lying.

Glenn Garvin | 7.24.2015 3:00 PM

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Sea Level

Sea Level Is Not Rising Faster Than Researchers Previously Thought

Despite alarming headlines to the contrary

Ronald Bailey | 1.15.2015 11:05 AM

Science & Technology

Stem Cell "Game Changing" Paper Retracted

Ronald Bailey | 7.2.2014 4:02 PM

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Politics

Missing the Forest

Regulations in the wild

J.D. Tuccille | 2.28.2014 7:00 AM

World

Forest Workers in India Claim They Have Killed the Tiger Responsible For Recent Deaths

Three women were killed in the last two weeks

Reason Staff | 1.22.2014 6:20 PM

Culture

Denali National Park Gets Google Street View Treatment

Only one road in the park, mostly unpaved

Reason Staff | 11.7.2013 8:10 AM

Science & Technology

Circles on Frozen Pond a Mystery for Residents

Therefore aliens?

Reason Staff | 3.27.2013 7:30 PM

Policy

The Art of Managing Nature

A report from PERC's Reconciling Economics and Ecology Conference

Ronald Bailey | 3.1.2013 4:30 PM

Large image on homepages | BaseballBacks / photo on flickr

Policy

Brickbat: I Think That I Shall Never See

Charles Oliver | 2.28.2013 6:00 AM

Science & Technology

Nearly 650,000 Without Power in the Northeast

Thanks to blizzard

Reason Staff | 2.9.2013 9:18 AM

Science & Technology

Northeast Bracing For Blizzard

Thousands of flights canceled

Reason Staff | 2.8.2013 7:08 AM

Politics

Postenvironmentalism and Technological Abundance

A review of Love Your Monsters, a collection of essays on a new kind of environmentalism.

Ronald Bailey | 1.4.2012 4:30 PM

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