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The Climate Flames Come for Us All

This month’s western megafires have burned millions of acres and upended countless lives. It’s a sign of things to come if we don’t start to listen and act.
September 15, 2020
by
John R. Platt
This month’s western megafires have burned millions of acres and upended countless lives. It’s a sign of things to come if we don’t start to listen and act.
EPA building and flag
Commentaries

Pandemic Spawns Dangerous Relaxation of Environmental Regulations

The EPA allowed polluters to stop monitoring or even preventing their emissions, and many states followed suit. Here’s what happened — and how to fix it.
September 14, 2020
by
Joel A. Mintz and Victor B. Flatt
The EPA allowed polluters to stop monitoring or even preventing their emissions, and many states followed suit. Here’s what happened — and how to fix it.
reindeer walking on snow
The Ask

An Antidote to Despair: New Book Shares Stories of Ecological Restoration 

In The Reindeer Chronicles, Judith D. Schwartz shows how badly damaged landscapes are being restored across the world — and why more of that work is deeply needed.
September 8, 2020
by
Tara Lohan
In The Reindeer Chronicles, Judith D. Schwartz shows how badly damaged landscapes are being restored across the world — and why more of that work is deeply needed.
Yellowstone National Park
Editorials

Looking Back at the Past Four Years

With about two months until the 2020 election, our time to reflect on the environment grows short.
September 2, 2020
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John R. Platt and Tara Lohan
With about two months until the 2020 election, our time to reflect on the environment grows short.
Connecticut River
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Endgame Looms for New England’s Great River

After a half-century of failures, the recovery of the Connecticut River ecosystem hangs in the balance. Will authorities finally act to save it?
August 26, 2020
by
Karl Meyer
After a half-century of failures, the recovery of the Connecticut River ecosystem hangs in the balance. Will authorities finally act to save it?
rocks on seabed floor
Voices

As Deep-Seabed Mining Ramps Up, Scientists Race to Study the Environmental Effects

Timing is running short to develop an international framework to help prevent environmental harm to deep-sea life and to share resources equitably among nations, experts say.
August 21, 2020
by
Elizabeth M. De Santo and Elizabeth Mendenhall and Elizabeth Nyman
Timing is running short to develop an international framework to help prevent environmental harm to deep-sea life and to share resources equitably among nations, experts say.
A raised house next to one on the ground
The Ask

Walls or Wetlands? How Southeast Cities Are Grappling With Rising Seas

Climate change is already leaving Southeast cities swamped. Experts from the Southern Environmental Law Center explain how communities are planning for a wetter future.
August 17, 2020
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Tara Lohan
Climate change is already leaving Southeast cities swamped. Experts from the Southern Environmental Law Center explain how communities are planning for a wetter future.
Papua New Guinea
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Shark Quest: Are the World’s Most Endangered Rays Living in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea?

Solving this biodiversity mystery could reveal one of the most important sites to conserve these “rhinos of the sea.”
August 14, 2020
by
Jonathan Booth
Solving this biodiversity mystery could reveal one of the most important sites to conserve these “rhinos of the sea.”
silky shark
Commentaries

The Informal Blue Economy: East Africa’s Silent Shark Killer

Subsistence, artisanal and small-scale fisheries represent a previously unrecognized threat to many protected shark and ray species.
August 12, 2020
by
Rhett Bennett and Dave van Beuningen and Mike Markovina
Subsistence, artisanal and small-scale fisheries represent a previously unrecognized threat to many protected shark and ray species.
recycling
Commentaries

Can Cities Go Zero-waste? One Japanese Town Tried

Kamikatsu famously declared its goal was to go waste-free by 2020, but it didn’t quite get there. Their experience shows we can’t move further without systemic changes.
August 7, 2020
by
Olivia Sullivan
Kamikatsu famously declared its goal was to go waste-free by 2020, but it didn’t quite get there. Their experience shows we can’t move further without systemic changes.

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