# shark (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover shark. Page: Feed: --- ## [NHL Rumor Mill – August 22, 2026](https://www.spectorshockey.net/2026/08/nhl-rumor-mill-august-22-2026/) _2026-08-22 · Lyle Richardson · Spectors Hockey_ ## [NHL Morning Coffee Headlines – August 22, 2026](https://www.spectorshockey.net/2026/08/nhl-morning-coffee-headlines-august-22-2026/) _2026-08-22 · Lyle Richardson · Spectors Hockey_ ## [Hands On series: stories that build change](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/hands-on-series-stories-that-build-change/) _2026-08-22 · Lucia Torres · Conservation news_ How does a community adapt to challenging times? A tiny home built to withstand floods. Ancient floating gardens bringing a canal back to life. Giant fishing nets and the people working to protect a threatened tradition. Across Bangladesh, Mexico and Thailand, communities are finding practical ways to protect their homes, food systems, waterways and livelihoods. \[…\] ## [Art and science must come together for coral reef conservation, biologists argue](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/art-and-science-must-come-together-for-coral-reef-conservation-biologists-argue/) _2026-08-21 · David Brown · Conservation news_ Art and science can work together to raise public awareness and propel conservation efforts needed to safeguard coral reef ecosystems, a group of coral scientists argues in a new research article published in Science Advances. Coral reefs are among Earth’s most threatened ecosystems amid climate change, coral bleaching and threats from mining. However, most people \[…\] ## [Move over bears. Fat Marmot Week puts a spotlight on the alpine rodents](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/move-over-bears-fat-marmot-week-puts-a-spotlight-on-the-alpine-rodents/) _2026-08-21 · Associated Press · Conservation news_ GOTHIC, Colo. (AP) — Fat Marmot Week is coming soon. Last winter was tough for the groundhog-like rodents living in the Colorado mountains. Researchers say there wasn’t enough snow to keep marmots’ burrows warm while they hibernated, causing many of the animals to freeze to death. The marmots that survived are doing well. They’ve fattened \[…\] ## [Angola’s peatlands highly underestimated, new study suggests](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/angolas-peatlands-highly-underestimated-new-study-suggests/) _2026-08-21 · Victoria Schneider · Conservation news_ The Southwestern African nation of Angola has much more peatland than previously thought, new research suggests. In a study published on August 20 in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, researchers mapped out peatlands in the Angolan Highlands Water Tower (AHWT). This vast landscape stores and regulates freshwater in central Angola and feeds freshwater systems \[…\] ## [How ‘gentle power’ can preserve traditional biodiversity in Tokyo](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/how-gentle-power-can-preserve-traditional-biodiversity-in-tokyo/) _2026-08-21 · Annelise Giseburt · Conservation news_ The Zushi-Onoji Historical and Environmental Conservation Area nestles among Tokyo’s sprawling western suburbs. The area provides habitat for endangered species and a space to pass on traditional ecological knowledge of satoyama, Japanese rural landscapes that have been shaped by centuries of human activity. A recent study of a conservation initiative in Tokyo, Japan, explores how \[…\] ## [Southeast Asia is a hotspot for oak trees, many under ‘dire threat’](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/southeast-asia-is-a-hotspot-for-oak-trees-many-under-dire-threat/) _2026-08-21 · Sean Mowbray · Conservation news_ Southeast and East Asia may be famous for towering dipterocarps or massive conifers, but a new report highlights that the region is also home to more threatened oak species than anywhere else in the world. “While it may not be the region that first comes to mind when we think of oaks, it’s a really \[…\] ## [Spain proposes 23 new marine protected areas in the Canary Islands and Mediterranean](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/spain-proposes-23-new-marine-protected-areas-in-the-canary-islands-and-mediterranean/) _2026-08-21 · Francesco De Augustinis · Conservation news_ The Spanish government has launched a consultation process to establish 23 new marine protected areas (MPAs) in Canary Islands waters and the Mediterranean Sea as part of efforts to meet a national commitment to protect 30% of its waters by 2030. The proposal, put forward by Spain’s Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic \[…\] ## [Hands On: Stories that build change](https://news.mongabay.com/specials/2026/08/hands-on-solutions/) _2026-08-21 · Alejandroprescottcornejo · Conservation news_ Communities across the globe are responding to environmental pressures like climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution with local knowledge and practical action. This Mongabay multimedia Special Issue documents what communities are doing to adapt through hands-on activities—showcasing applied wisdom, craftsmanship, and worldviews that are crucial to navigating environmental crises at the… ## [Stop CI/CD & Supply-Chain Attacks (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ArimJbRB4kzp) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Per-PR: 17 CI/CD checks and package malware scans with inline Check Run findings. ## [Reconnecting the skies: Linking flyways for migratory seabirds across continents](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/reconnecting-the-skies-linking-flyways-for-migratory-seabirds-across-continents/) _2026-08-21 · Ruth Kamnitzer · Conservation news_ Arctic terns make the longest migration of any creature on Earth, with some Sterna paradisaea clocking more than 80,000 kilometers (49,709 miles) a year, flying from the Southern Ocean to their breeding grounds in the Arctic — and back. For a tiny bird, weighing less than an iPhone, it’s an astounding feat. South polar skuas \[…\] ## [NHL Rumor Mill – August 21, 2026](https://www.spectorshockey.net/2026/08/nhl-rumor-mill-august-21-2026/) _2026-08-21 · Lyle Richardson · Spectors Hockey_ ## [NHL Morning Coffee Headlines – August 21, 2026](https://www.spectorshockey.net/2026/08/nhl-morning-coffee-headlines-august-21-2026/) _2026-08-21 · Lyle Richardson · Spectors Hockey_ ## [Six things to know about Asia’s heatwave and the health impacts](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/six-things-to-know-about-asias-heatwave-and-the-health-impacts/) _2026-08-21 · Andrew Jeong · Conservation news_ SEOUL — A record-breaking heatwave swept through a broad swath of Asia earlier this month, causing deaths and heat-related illnesses. This year’s extreme weather has been linked to El Niño, which, according to weather experts, could be one of the strongest ever recorded. The “super” El Niño, which officially arrived in June, is expected to \[…\] ## [This tiny Thai lizard shares its name with a ‘House of the Dragon’ beast](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/this-tiny-thai-lizard-shares-its-name-with-a-house-of-the-dragon-beast/) _2026-08-21 · Naina Rao · Conservation news_ Researchers have described a new-to-science species of horned lizard from the high-elevation, evergreen forests of western Thailand. The lizard, named the Syrax mountain horned dragon, or Acanthosaura syrax, in a recent study, was discovered in Mae Wong National Park. The species name syrax refers to the yellow dragon ridden by Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen in the \[…\] ## [Hermit crabs and cockroaches emerge as unlikely seed dispersers on a Japanese island](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/hermit-crabs-and-cockroaches-emerge-as-unlikely-seed-dispersers-on-a-japanese-island/) _2026-08-21 · Naina Rao · Conservation news_ In the humid, coastal forests of Japan’s Ishigaki Island, near Okinawa, a parasitic plant relies on some unusual allies to spread its seeds: land hermit crabs and cockroaches, according to a recent study. The plant, fungus root (Balanophora fungosa), is non-photosynthetic, meaning it lacks chlorophyll and can’t make its own food. Instead, it grows as \[…\] ## [To secure protected areas from wildlife trafficking, criminal networks must be dismantled (commentary)](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/secure-protected-areas-from-wildlife-trafficking-criminal-networks-must-be-dismantled-commentary/) _2026-08-20 · Ofir Drori · Conservation news_ Conservation has historically emphasized protected area management including protecting land, fencing, local enforcement and rangers’ patrols within parks. And indeed, decades of protected area management have demonstrated that strong local protection matters enormously. But there is a weakness in this logic that we rarely confront directly. Protected areas can suppress poaching within their… ## [Drugs are becoming institutionalized: Interview with Ticuna leader in Peru’s Amazon](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/drugs-are-becoming-institutionalized-interview-with-ticuna-leader-in-perus-amazon/) _2026-08-20 · Aimee Gabay · Conservation news_ Francisco Hernández Cayetano, president of the Federation of Ticuna and Yagua Communities of the Lower Amazon (FECOTYBA), is raising the alarm about the latest threats related to drug trafficking in the Amazon’s tri-border area. Living along riverbanks and lowland forests in the remote area where Peru, Colombia and Brazil meet, the Ticuna and Yagua people \[…\] ## [Criminal probe clears Sloth World of criminal neglect in deaths of 57 animals](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/criminal-probe-clears-sloth-world-of-criminal-neglect-in-deaths-of-57-animals/) _2026-08-20 · Bobby Bascomb · Conservation news_ Authorities in the U.S. state of Florida have cleared a controversial startup of criminal neglect after dozens of wild-caught sloths that it imported from South America for tourism purposes died. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office (OCSO) opened an investigation following the closure of the Sloth World facility in April this year. On Aug. 19, it \[…\] ## [NHL Rumor Mill – August 20, 2026](https://www.spectorshockey.net/2026/08/nhl-rumor-mill-august-20-2026/) _2026-08-20 · Lyle Richardson · Spectors Hockey_ ## [Trade Bitcoin & Ethereum (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/kSO6AscGqsPa) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell and margin trade BTC & ETH with fiat currencies ## [NHL Morning Coffee Headlines – August 20, 2026](https://www.spectorshockey.net/2026/08/nhl-morning-coffee-headlines-august-20-2026/) _2026-08-20 · Lyle Richardson · Spectors Hockey_ ## [Climate change drove extreme July heat in European seas, study finds](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/climate-change-drove-extreme-july-heat-in-european-seas-study-finds/) _2026-08-20 · Naina Rao · Conservation news_ European coastal waters recorded unprecedented sea surface temperatures in July 2026. A new study has found that human-induced climate change primarily drove the temperature surge, pushing marine ecosystems past their limits. The rapid analysis was conducted by World Weather Attribution (WWA), a global network of researchers who analyze the influence of climate change in extreme \[…\] ## [Indigenous fishers rethink shark hunting & protect species on Colombia’s coast](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/indigenous-fishers-rethink-shark-hunting-protect-species-on-colombias-coast/) _2026-08-20 · Euan Wallace · Conservation news_ LA GUAJIRA, Colombia — Feet from the ocean, four sharks and a ray lie dead on the wind-battered sand. Above them stands Wilfrido Arends, 46. The blade of a short knife glints in his hand. Carefully, he bends down to cut a small fin from the underside of one shark — an endangered species known \[…\] ## [Nepal pushes for hydropower in protected areas through legal grey area](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/nepal-pushes-for-hydropower-in-protected-areas-through-legal-grey-area/) _2026-08-20 · Rudra Pangeni · Conservation news_ KATHMANDU – Nepal’s government has allowed several private hydropower producers to develop projects inside protected areas and the buffer zones surrounding them, contravening a Supreme Court order, a Mongabay investigation reveals. In January 2025, the Supreme Court declared that a 2024 amendment to a key conservation law opening up protected areas to commercial projects was \[…\] ## [Sloth bears help shape India’s dry forests as unlikely seed dispersers](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/sloth-bears-help-shape-indias-dry-forests-as-unlikely-seed-dispersers/) _2026-08-20 · Mongabay.com · Conservation news_ Sloth bears play a critical role in structuring India’s dry deciduous forests by dispersing viable seeds and influencing plant regeneration, reports contributor Sneha Mahale for Mongabay India. “Dry deciduous forests’ plant compositions are a function of sloth bear presence, movement, and dietary habits,” study co-author K.S. Gopi Sundar, an independent scientist, told Mongabay India. For \[…\] ## [Why every endangered species needs a champion: a conversation with conservationist Bill Konstant](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/why-every-endangered-species-needs-a-champion-a-conversation-with-conservationist-bill-konstant/) _2026-08-20 · Rhett Ayers Butler · Conservation news_ Russell Mittermeier has a running joke about Bill Konstant. The two have worked together, off and on, for more than four decades, and Mittermeier writes in the foreword to Wrestles With Wolves that Konstant seems to have a tolerance of roughly five years working directly for him before departing for another organization. Konstant has an \[…\] ## [Dolphin mother and calf observed using shells to catch fish in Australia](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/dolphin-mother-and-calf-observed-using-shells-to-catch-fish-in-australia/) _2026-08-19 · Bobby Bascomb · Conservation news_ A small population of dolphins in Shark Bay in Western Australia have a documented history of using an unusual tool to help them catch fish: Large, empty snail shells. For the first time, scientists have now observed the same behavior in a different dolphin population on Australia’s east coast. Researchers even filmed a baby dolphin \[…\] ## [Orangutan Day: Here’s where the three critically endangered species stand](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/orangutan-day-heres-where-the-three-critically-endangered-species-stand/) _2026-08-19 · Mongabay.com · Conservation news_ Aug. 19 is World Orangutan Day, a day to honor the three species of Southeast Asian great apes, all of which are classified as critically endangered by the IUCN, the global conservation authority. Orangutans were classified into two species: The Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) found in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, and the Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus), \[…\] ## [Egypt’s deserts show why ecological knowledge matters in conservation (commentary)](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/egypts-deserts-show-why-ecological-knowledge-matters-in-conservation-commentary/) _2026-08-19 · Marwan Mahmoud Kamal Hamdoun · Conservation news_ Egypt’s deserts are often introduced to the world as empty: Wide horizons, silence, heat, sand and stone. In tourism brochures they become dramatic scenery. In archaeological writing they can appear as corridors around monuments. In some conservation documents they are fragile spaces that need technical management from outside. But these descriptions miss something essential. Deserts \[…\] ## [New Zealand opens marine reserves with groundbreaking Māori co-management model](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/new-zealand-opens-marine-reserves-with-groundbreaking-maori-co-management-model/) _2026-08-19 · Edward Carver · Conservation news_ DUNEDIN, Aotearoa New Zealand — At a U.N. meeting in 2015, Aotearoa New Zealand’s then Prime Minister John Key made a major announcement that drew praise from international conservation groups: His administration would turn a swath of waters far larger than the country’s land mass into a marine protected area (MPA). The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary, \[…\] ## [Find it on Amazon (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/sh0IA5RJmXlr) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Open the Amazon product listing to see details and availability ## [Philippine Supreme Court rules monitoring commercial fishing vessels is unconstitutional](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/philippine-supreme-court-rules-monitoring-commercial-fishing-vessels-is-unconstitutional/) _2026-08-19 · Keith Anthony Fabro · Conservation news_ The Philippine Supreme Court has struck down a regulation requiring commercial fishing vessels to continuously transmit their locations and submit electronic catch reports, a decision small-scale fishers say could make it harder to protect coastal grounds already strained by overfishing and competition from larger operators. The high court upheld a lower-court decision that invalidated Fisheries… ## [NHL Rumor Mill – August 19, 2026](https://www.spectorshockey.net/2026/08/nhl-rumor-mill-august-19-2026/) _2026-08-19 · Lyle Richardson · Spectors Hockey_ ## [NHL Morning Coffee Headlines – August 19, 2026](https://www.spectorshockey.net/2026/08/nhl-morning-coffee-headlines-august-19-2026/) _2026-08-19 · Lyle Richardson · Spectors Hockey_ ## [NHL Rumor Mill – August 18, 2026](https://www.spectorshockey.net/2026/08/nhl-rumor-mill-august-18-2026/) _2026-08-18 · Lyle Richardson · Spectors Hockey_ ## [NHL Morning Coffee Headlines – August 18, 2026](https://www.spectorshockey.net/2026/08/nhl-morning-coffee-headlines-august-18-2026/) _2026-08-18 · Lyle Richardson · Spectors Hockey_ ## [NHL Rumor Mill – August 17, 2026](https://www.spectorshockey.net/2026/08/nhl-rumor-mill-august-17-2026/) _2026-08-17 · Lyle Richardson · Spectors Hockey_ ## [NHL Morning Coffee Headlines – August 17, 2026](https://www.spectorshockey.net/2026/08/nhl-morning-coffee-headlines-august-17-2026/) _2026-08-17 · Lyle Richardson · Spectors Hockey_ ## [Sunday NHL Rumor Roundup – August 16, 2026](https://www.spectorshockey.net/2026/08/sunday-nhl-rumor-roundup-august-16-2026/) _2026-08-16 · Lyle Richardson · Spectors Hockey_ ## [NHL Morning Coffee Headlines – August 16, 2026](https://www.spectorshockey.net/2026/08/nhl-morning-coffee-headlines-august-16-2026/) _2026-08-16 · Lyle Richardson · Spectors Hockey_