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Wild bees are rapidly shrinking due to global warming

Bees in a well-preserved Spanish wilderness weigh less than they did decades ago, possibly because rising temperatures are affecting their development and food.

proposed strip mine Okefenokee Swamp
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Margaret Renkl: The fate of the Okefenokee Swamp is in your hands

It’s not too much to say that to endanger it would be to endanger the whole world.
Biden bans roads, logging in Alaska’s Tongass
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Biden bans roads, logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest

The U.S. Forest Service rule restricts development on more than nine million acres in North America’s largest temperate rainforest, reversing a Trump decision.
West Virginia clashes over new Corridor H highway by Blackwater Falls

West Virginia clashes over new Corridor H highway by Blackwater Falls

A highway project planned since the 1960s is about to be built in West Virginia. Critics worry it will hurt the environment — and their revived economies.
David Foreman, hard-line environmentalist, dies at 75

David Foreman, hard-line environmentalist, dies at 75

As a co-founder of the group Earth First!, he advocated slashing tires and downing power lines in an effort to return vast swaths of the country to their natural state.
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As Alaska warms, fires burn over and under' more wild land

As Alaska warms, fires burn over and under' more wild land

Lightning storms, drought and thawing tundra are making fires more destructive. In the vast wilderness, firefighting is a major challenge.
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