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This Land Is Our Land: New Books About Public Lands, the Threats They Face, and Their Ecological Importance

These new books cover challenges to our shared land, ranging from Indigenous appropriation to current corporate grabs.
April 16, 2025
by
John R. Platt and Colleen M. Crary, Ph.D.
These new books cover challenges to our shared land, ranging from Indigenous appropriation to current corporate grabs.
Bears Ears National Monument
Op-Eds

Trump’s Approach to Public Lands? Expanding the Extractive Economy and Declaring a War on Nature

The Trump team has launched a three-pronged attack on the environment. We need to understand it if we hope to stand up to it.
March 28, 2025
by
Federico Holm, Ph.D.
The Trump team has launched a three-pronged attack on the environment. We need to understand it if we hope to stand up to it.
EPA building and flag
Op-Eds

From EPA Staff: An Open Letter to the American Public

“We cannot stand by and allow this to happen,” write current and former EPA employees. “We need to hold this administration accountable.”
March 20, 2025
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Environmental Health News
“We cannot stand by and allow this to happen,” write current and former EPA employees. “We need to hold this administration accountable.”
News

How DOGE Cuts Threatens Science That Could Save the Planet

Politicians have mocked, belittled, and cut federally funded research for decades, but funding basic science has a long history of lifesaving discoveries.
March 19, 2025
by
John R. Platt
Politicians have mocked, belittled, and cut federally funded research for decades, but funding basic science has a long history of lifesaving discoveries.
Extinction Countdown

By Shutting Down USAID, Trump and Musk Will Worsen the Climate and Extinction Crises

The agency supports critical efforts to reduce wildlife trafficking, deforestation, land violence, and other threats around the world.
February 4, 2025
by
John R. Platt
The agency supports critical efforts to reduce wildlife trafficking, deforestation, land violence, and other threats around the world.
Patches of forest surrounded by roads, cleared areas, and areas being burned
Climate Change

Trump’s Assault on Foreign Aid Threatens Brazil’s Efforts to Fight Deforestation and Poverty

Previous support and pledges from the United States have helped to slow forest loss in Brazil. Will Trump reverse that progress?
February 3, 2025
by
Vinicius Pereira
Previous support and pledges from the United States have helped to slow forest loss in Brazil. Will Trump reverse that progress?
Op-Eds

Mining Policy Must Be Reformed

Current plans to update our 152-year-old mining laws fail to redress centuries of mineral-extractive colonialism.
September 25, 2024
by
Sam Orndorff
Current plans to update our 152-year-old mining laws fail to redress centuries of mineral-extractive colonialism.
Op-Eds

‘Free Water’ Was Never Free, Writes a Historian of the American West

Subsidized water cultivated the West, but this required becoming increasingly profligate with the region’s scarcest resource.
November 28, 2022
by
Nate Housley
Subsidized water cultivated the West, but this required becoming increasingly profligate with the region’s scarcest resource.
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Editorials

Election Denial Is the New Climate Denial — and Still a Threat

The midterms may have avoided a red wave, but there’s still blood (and some anti-science conspiracy theorists) in the water.
November 18, 2022
by
John R. Platt
The midterms may have avoided a red wave, but there’s still blood (and some anti-science conspiracy theorists) in the water.
Green wave dominates a blue ocean
Climate Change

Midterms 2022: A Green Wave on the Horizon?

While control of Congress remains unsettled, other races around the country reveal a growing — if precarious — tilt toward climate as a priority.
November 10, 2022
by
John R. Platt and Tara Lohan
While control of Congress remains unsettled, other races around the country reveal a growing — if precarious — tilt toward climate as a priority.

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