New viruses like the pathogen that causes MERS are jumping across the species barrier, going from animals to human beings. …
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Indonesia Punishes Wildlife Traffickers
From the jungles of Borneo to the markets of Jakarta, illegal wildlife trafficking in Indonesia is growing. But recent jail sentences might change that.
Solar: U.S. Slaps Tariffs on Chinese Solar Panels, But the Trade War May Be on Hold
The solar industry in the U.S. has been holding its breath over a much-delayed review by the Commerce Department over allegedly unfair trade practices by Chinese solar panel makers. A few solar manufacturers—notably SolarWorld, …
Raring to Fight: The U.S. Tangles with China over Rare-Earth Exports
President Obama has been talking tough about what he sees as unfair Chinese trade policy since at least this year’s State of the Union speech, when the President boasted that his Administration had brought up trade cases against …
One Baby Gorilla Is Rescued From Poachers—But Others Aren’t So Lucky
It’s easy enough to get the public interested in the great apes when you plaster James Franco’s handsome face on a movie poster and promise visual effects on the level of Lord of the Rings and King Kong. But these animals get other types of attention too – the wrong kind. On Sunday a baby mountain gorilla named Ihirwe was …
Can the U.S. Close Its Seafood Trade Deficit?
As I write in the cover story of TIME this week, we’re in the middle of a seafood transition. Once nearly all of our fish were caught wild—indeed, as Paul Greenberg has written, fish are the last wild food in a world where nearly everything else we eat comes from a farmer’s labor. But that’s changing—around half of the seafood …