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The Endangered Species Act always had a hole in it. It was intended to protect ecosystems as well as individual species—it says so right in the original 1973 text—but it has no provisions to ...

As ecosystems degrade at an alarming rate, humanity must find new ways to value the natural world so it isn’t lost forever. Some economists and environmentalists say that to protect nature, we ...

WASHINGTON, November 21, 2023 —Conserving and restoring blue carbon ecosystems, such as mangroves, seagrasses, and salt marshes, which capture more carbon than forests, can help fight climate change, ...