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Nature

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

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.

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

Brickbats

Brickbat: Fly Away

Charles Oliver | 8.2.2022 4:00 AM

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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

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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

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Coronavirus

Let People Go Outside

Many public health experts say the benefits outweigh the risks.

Billy Binion | 5.5.2020 3:44 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

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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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