Bad Conservation News Archives | The Cool Down

A hand has orange residue from the lake below.

Tech

Colorado mine spill turned a river orange, then reached Lake Powell in a week

Argentine ants eating food scraps.

Tech

In California, Argentine ants are shielding crop pests from the predators farmers need

A bear walking through a sunlit forest in Norway with trees and mist.

Food

Oslo restaurant serves bear meat for $84, and activists demand a boycott

A black-footed ferret.

Outdoors

In Wyoming, biologists searched the black-footed ferret's comeback ground and came up empty

A monarch butterfly.

Tech

America's butterflies fell 22%, and scientists say it's an early warning sign

A suitcase at an airport.

Outdoors

Customs officials in Germany drug-test nervous traveler, then find 92 reptiles in bottles and socks

A southern right whale.

Tech

In Argentina, 300-plus southern right whale calves died, and one bacterium stands out

A crocodile rests on wooden planks beside a body of water.

Tech

In Florida, a crocodile swallowed 23 air-rifle pellets, and researchers fear it's not the only one

A ball python.

Tech

In Oman, a traveler faces charges after being caught with several royal pythons at Muscat airport

A Burmese python rests on the grass near a roadside with herons visible in the background.

Tech

Burmese pythons may be giving invasive plants a ride through Florida Everglades

A lizard resting on a brown surface.

Tech

On Vancouver Island, invasive lizards kill slugs, save strawberries, and alarm experts

An Indian rock python snake resting on rocks with surrounding greenery.

Outdoors

In India, at least 20 rescued pythons died in a well, with live snakes found on top