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The goats fighting fires in Los Angeles

Grazing goats are becoming a common sight in Los Angeles – can they really prevent ever bigger, fiercer wildfires?

In new collaborations, tribes become stewards of parks and monuments

There's a growing movement to restore tribes’ role in managing the lands and waters within their ancestral territories. Many of America’s most cherished public lands were established only after the displacement of the Indigenous people who called them home.

Pa groups thrilled by Biden’s American Climate Corps, but wish it were bigger

American Climate Corps will train 20,000 young people in clean energy, conservation, and climate resilience across the country.

Biden is using executive power to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps

After being thwarted by Congress, President Joe Biden will use his executive authority to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps that'll serve as a major green jobs training program.

America’s fire spotters aren’t ready to fade away just yet

Officials say the future of wildfire detection is cameras. But in northwest Montana, solitary humans on mountaintops still do more than machines alone can offer.

Can mushrooms help prevent wildfires?

Fungi could turn piles of potential wildfire fuel into soil.

Fighting fire with goats

Their superpower: Eating. Uncomplainingly and just about unceasingly, the goats reduce the vegetation that dries up in the summer, reducing fuel for the flames.
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