Anatomy of an Extinction

Anatomy of an Extinction

For Mother Jones, Jackie Flynn Mogensen reports on the threats facing North America’s largest amphibian—a giant aquatic salamander called the Eastern hellbender—and how climate disasters, like Hurricane Helene, and the Trump Administration’s environmental policies are both accelerating the species’ potential extinction. Mogensen’s reporting provides a wide view of how extinctions happen, while her interactions with conservation biologists and wi…