Protecting the Amazon's swimways

Protecting the Amazon's swimways
WWF and partners reviewed the use of more than 200,000 miles of Amazonian rivers by long-distance migratory fish and turtle species and river dolphins to map the most important routes.

Published January 24, 2023 at 06:00PM
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Eliminating fisheries crime calls for innovative partnerships. WWF just helped launch one.

Eliminating fisheries crime calls for innovative partnerships. WWF just helped launch one.
WWF and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Global Maritime Crime Program have launched a new partnership to advance innovative knowledge-sharing to protect the waters around Ecuador.

Published January 16, 2023 at 06:00PM
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Stethoscope

Stethoscope: A surprising investigation of a scientific instrument long at the pulse of medicine.   This book explores the colorful past, present, and future of an instrument that is, quite literally, close to our hearts. The stethoscope has become the symbol of medicine itself—how did this come to be? What makes the stethoscope such a familiar yet charismatic object? Drawing from a range of fields including history, anthropology, science, technology, and sound studies, the book illustrates the variety of roles the stethoscope has played over time. It shows that the stethoscope is not, and has never been, a single entity. It is used to a variety of ends, serves several purposes, and is open to many interpretations. This variability is the key to the stethoscope’s enduring presence in the medical and popular imagination.

Dr. Nurse

Dr. Nurse: An analysis of the efforts of American nurses to establish nursing as an academic discipline and nurses as valued researchers in the decades after World War II. Nurses represent the largest segment of the U.S. health care workforce and spend significantly more time with patients than any other member of the health care team. Dr. Nurse probes their history to examine major changes that have taken place in American health care in the second half of the twentieth century. The book reveals how federal and state health and higher education policies shaped education within health professions after World War II. Starting in the 1950s, academic nurses sought to construct a science of nursing—distinct from that of the related biomedical or behavioral sciences—that would provide the basis for nursing practice. Their efforts transformed nursing’s labor into a valuable site of knowledge production and proved how the application of their knowledge was integral to improving patient outcomes. Exploring the knowledge claims, strategies, and politics involved as academic nurses negotiated their roles and nursing’s future, Dr. Nurse highlights how state-supported health centers have profoundly shaped nursing education and health care delivery.

5 ways WWF helped fight the climate crisis in 2022

5 ways WWF helped fight the climate crisis in 2022
Here are five ways that WWF helped to fight the climate crisis in 2022.

Published December 27, 2022 at 06:00PM
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A big win for the planet – and people – in Alaska

A big win for the planet – and people – in Alaska
A 44,000-acre conservation easement will protect four of the world's most important rivers for salmon habitat.

Published December 21, 2022 at 06:00PM
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World strikes agreement to stop biodiversity loss

World strikes agreement to stop biodiversity loss
In a big win for biodiversity, countries struck a global agreement to halt and reverse nature loss during negotiations in Montreal.

Published December 18, 2022 at 06:00PM
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3 ways the US is taking action to protect biodiversity

3 ways the US is taking action to protect biodiversity
These actions send a signal to the world, but there’s a lot more to do

Published December 14, 2022 at 06:00PM
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Atlantic Forest Declared UN World Restoration Flagship

Atlantic Forest Declared UN World Restoration Flagship


Published December 13, 2022 at 06:00PM
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Conservation highlights of 2022

Conservation highlights of 2022
Despite the dual threats of a rapidly warming planet and declining biodiversity, we still made major conservation strides toward protecting wildlife, wild places, and people in 2022.

Published December 12, 2022 at 06:00PM
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Abandoning the carton: how bulk milk dispensers can help schools reduce waste

Abandoning the carton: how bulk milk dispensers can help schools reduce waste


Published December 06, 2022 at 06:00PM
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Meet Alexia Leclercq, WWF’s 2022 Conservation Leadership Award Winner

Meet Alexia Leclercq, WWF’s 2022 Conservation Leadership Award Winner
Leclercq is a grassroots organizer, educator, scholar, and artist whose primary focus is on environmental justice.

Published December 07, 2022 at 06:00PM
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Abandoning the carton: how milk distribution can help schools reduce waste

Abandoning the carton: how milk distribution can help schools reduce waste


Published December 06, 2022 at 06:00PM
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Making Sense of Medicine

Making Sense of Medicine: A critical reflection on the relationship between materials and the reproduction of medical knowledge.  Medical knowledge manifests in materials, and materials are integral to the reproduction of medical knowledge. From the novice student to the expert practitioner, those who study and work in and around medicine rely on material guidance in their everyday practice and as they seek to further their craft. To that end, this edited collection brings together historians, anthropologists, educators, artists, and curators to explore the role of materiality in medical education.  With a broad temporal focus and international scope, the volume focuses on the materials, objects, tools, and technologies that facilitate the reproduction of medical knowledge and often also reify understandings of medical science. Experimental in form and supplemented with ethnographic, museological, and historical cases from around the world, this edited volume is the first to fully explore the matter of medical education in the modern world.

International wildlife trade talks lead to more protections for animals

International wildlife trade talks lead to more protections for animals
The talks concluded with new and renewed global protections against poaching, illegal, and unsustainable trade in wild animals and plants that could help reverse trends driving biodiversity loss.

Published December 01, 2022 at 06:00PM
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How Wildlife Help Combat the Climate Crisis

How Wildlife Help Combat the Climate Crisis
By conserving wildlife, from otters and elephants to tigers and oysters, we help protect the planet, including ourselves.

Published November 28, 2022 at 06:00PM
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The Doctor Who Wasn’t There

The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: This gripping history shows how the electronic devices we use to access care influence the kind of care we receive.The Doctor Who Wasn’t There traces the long arc of enthusiasm for—and skepticism of—electronic media in health and medicine. Over the past century, a series of new technologies promised to democratize access to healthcare. From the humble telephone to the connected smartphone, from FM radio to wireless wearables, from cable television to the “electronic brains” of networked mainframe computers: each new platform has promised a radical reformation of the healthcare landscape. With equal attention to the history of technology, the history of medicine, and the politics and economies of American healthcare, physician and historian Jeremy A. Greene explores the role that electronic media play, for better and for worse, in the past, present, and future of our health. Today’s telehealth devices are far more sophisticated than the hook-and-ringer telephones of the 1920s, the radios that broadcasted health data in the 1940s, the closed-circuit televisions that enabled telemedicine in the 1950s, or the online systems that created electronic medical records in the 1960s. But the ethical, economic, and logistical concerns they raise are prefigured in the past, as are the gaps between what was promised and what was delivered. Each of these platforms also produced subtle transformations in health and healthcare that we have learned to forget,...

COP27 wrap up: funding the end of the world and other thoughts

COP27 wrap up: funding the end of the world and other thoughts
All international climate talks begin with high hopes, and COP27 was seen as the moment for implementation and climate justice. Instead, it may be remembered as the COP of unmet expectations.

Published November 22, 2022 at 06:00PM
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Predators of predators: the snaring crisis threatening the survival of Asia's big cats

Predators of predators: the snaring crisis threatening the survival of Asia's big cats
Snares, rudimentary traps that people have set by the millions on forest floors and snowy mountain pathways across Asia, are barely visible to the eye and a fatal danger to all wildlife.

Published November 20, 2022 at 06:00PM
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States of Plague

States of Plague: States of Plague examines Albert Camus’s novel as a palimpsest of  pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and politics of a public health crisis. As one of the most discussed books of the COVID-19 crisis, Albert Camus’s classic novel The Plague has become a new kind of literary touchstone. Surrounded by terror and uncertainty, often separated from loved ones or unable to travel, readers sought answers within the pages of Camus’s 1947 tale about an Algerian city gripped by an epidemic. Many found in it a story about their own lives—a book to shed light on a global health crisis. In thirteen linked chapters told in alternating voices, Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris hold the past and present of The Plague in conversation, discovering how the novel has reached people in their current moment.  Kaplan’s chapters explore the book’s tangled and vivid history, while Marris’s are drawn to the ecology of landscape and language. Through these pages, they find that their sense of Camus evolves under the force of a new reality, alongside the pressures of illness, recovery, concern, and care in their own lives. Along the way, Kaplan and Marris examine how the novel’s original allegory might resonate for a new generation of readers who have experienced a global pandemic.  They describe how they learned to contemplate the skies of a plague spring, to examine the body politic and%...