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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.
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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.
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.
‘The nation has stood up': Indigenous clans battle pipeline project
On one side of a barricade in remote British Columbia, members of the Wet’suwet’en people hoped to stop a pipeline that would cross their traditional land. On the other side were heavily armed police.
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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.
Lawyer set to defeat Cheney spent career fighting environmental rules
Harriet Hageman, who is challenging Representative Liz Cheney, worked for decades as a lawyer opposing environmentalists and federal regulations of resources in Wyoming.
Jon Waterman: 36 years later, the climate changes at this national park stunned me
The landscape resembles frozen spinach left out on the kitchen counter too long.
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