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The Revelator, an online news and ideas initiative of the Center for Biological Diversity, provides editorially independent reporting, analysis and stories at the intersection of politics, conservation, art, culture, endangered species, climate change, economics and the future of wild species, wild places and the planet.
Our aim is to:
Hold politicians and corporations accountable through incisive reporting on environmental issues;
Provide in-depth and on-the-ground understanding of the day’s conservation news;
Drive and deepen the national conversation among the public, politicians, environmental groups, scientists and academics on the important environmental issues of our age;
Pursue and promote transparency and citizen participation;
Expose wrongdoing, promote righteous efforts, illuminate dark places, stir complacent minds and hearts; and pursue the very best ideas for saving wildlife, people and the planet.
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Search ArticlesNew Environmental Books: Summer-to-Autumn Reads for the Whole Family
The change of seasons gives us a chance to reflect on the environmental issues that affect us all. Here are several new books about wildlife, climate change, and biological diversity that offer intriguing insights into the transformations occurring in our world and ways we can enjoy, protect, and observe the transformation from summer to autumn. We’ve adapted the books’ official descriptions below, and the link in each title goes to the publisher’s page.
Laugh in the Face of Doom and Gloom
In 2024 a team of scientists with a dry sense of humor announced the name of a newly discovered but extinct species: the obliterated whitefish. Extinction is deadly serious, but you have to admit that’s a brilliant name for a species — a name that makes us sit up and take notice of the fact that we wiped that creature out of existence.
Fish Maw: An Emerging Ocean Conservation Nightmare
This June customs officers in Hong Kong intercepted eight cartons supposedly containing frozen fish fillets on their way from Mexico from Vietnam. The packages, they found, also included 149 kilograms (about 330 pounds) of dried fish bladders suspected to come from protected totoaba, a critically endangered fish species that swims in the Gulf of California.
We Are Water: Metaphor As a Tool for Environmental Policies Communication
On Sept. 16, 2025, an estimated 100,000 people flooded the streets of Cuenca, Ecuador’s third-most populous city, in one of the largest environmental mobilizations in the country’s recent history. Protesters marched under a simple slogan: “We are water.” The demonstration was aimed at stopping mining projects in Quimsacocha, a fragile, high-altitude ecosystem that supplies water to hundreds of thousands of people across southern Ecuador.
Conserving Culture in Endangered Species
How does a young wolf learn how to be a wolf? Genetics certainly plays a role, but so do the knowledge and techniques passed on by the previous generation of wolves, who teach their young how to hunt, what areas to avoid, and how and when to howl (and what each variation in those howls means). And much like human dialects and accents, wolf howls vary depending on where a wolf grows up.
Remembering How to Love Again in the Time of AI
Originally published at the “Earth Chxrch” page of Neil Young’s Times-Contrarian. Talen is the religion editor at the Contrarian. The distance between our realization and actualization has changed — and it is a tragic dangerous thing that you and I share. Realizing can come in many forms. With the environmental movement the realization was the reading of Silent Spring.
Tea and Salamanders
Nestled in the misty, snow-capped Himalayas in northeast India, the city of Darjeeling — the famed “Queen of the Hills” — has long been synonymous with its legendary tea gardens. But tea isn’t the only thing you’ll find on these rolling mountains. A “living fossil” also inhabits this landscape: the endemic Himalayan salamander (Tylototriton himalayanus), whose ancestors roamed the Earth with dinosaurs about 160 million years ago.
Submit Your Environmental Photos and Art to the Revelator Gallery
Revelator readers enjoy a love of wildlife and wild places around the world. Our new Revelator Gallery showcases readers’ wildlife and landscape photos, artwork, and other projects and creative efforts.
Eagle and Condor: How Ecuador Translated Indigenous Cosmology Into Constitutional Law
In 2008 Ecuador became the first country in history to grant constitutional rights to nature. Rivers, forests, and ecosystems were no longer treated solely as resources to be managed, but as living entities with rights of their own. For some it was a legal innovation. For others it was the return of a worldview that had survived for centuries outside the institutions of the modern state.
A Gnarly Situation: High-Elevation Discovery Raises New Questions About Which California Trees Will Survive Climate Change
Hugh Safford was hiking at 12,657 feet in California’s Sequoia National Park two years ago when he spotted something strange. It was a young Jeffrey pine, a tree that usually occurs farther downhill. Photo: Hugh Safford. Used with permission. Safford was hiking at treeline, the forest threshold where trees still grow, but fewer and farther between. Only the toughest species can survive the strong winds, heavy snowpack, and freezing temperatures found there.