Government

These new books cover challenges to our shared land, ranging from Indigenous appropriation to current corporate grabs.

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.

“We cannot stand by and allow this to happen,” write current and former EPA employees. “We need to hold this administration accountable.”

Politicians have mocked, belittled, and cut federally funded research for decades, but funding basic science has a long history of lifesaving discoveries.

The agency supports critical efforts to reduce wildlife trafficking, deforestation, land violence, and other threats around the world.

Previous support and pledges from the United States have helped to slow forest loss in Brazil. Will Trump reverse that progress?

Current plans to update our 152-year-old mining laws fail to redress centuries of mineral-extractive colonialism.

Subsidized water cultivated the West, but this required becoming increasingly profligate with the region’s scarcest resource.

The midterms may have avoided a red wave, but there’s still blood (and some anti-science conspiracy theorists) in the water.

While control of Congress remains unsettled, other races around the country reveal a growing — if precarious — tilt toward climate as a priority.