Mounting development is a grave threat because of how it is carving up an ecosystem that must stay relatively intact to function.

Responses to the former Trump chief of staff’s comments. Also: Election disinformation; a voter paradox; Harris donations; biodiversity; pandas.

In the 1990s, China began sending pandas to foreign zoos to be bred, in the hope that future generations could be released into the wild. It hasn’t gone as planned.

The panda census methodology is widely seen as flawed, and China keeps the data shrouded in secrecy.