How Prescribed Burns Can Help Save Taxpayers Billions
New research shows every $1 the US Forest Service spent to minimize wildfire risk prevented nearly $4 in damages.
Environment
admin Black Lung Surges in Coal Country as Trump Slow-Walks Protections
The administration says it’s pro-coal, but miners are increasingly stricken with this brutal disease.
Recent Close Calls for Michigan’s Dams Are a Warning to America
Our nation’s aging infrastructure was not designed for a warming world.
The Solution to Urban Heat Is Actually Amazingly Simple
Trees, people. Trees. And the right kind.
Chevron Seeks Huge Tax Break to Build a Power Plant for a Texas Data Center
It would emit more CO2 than the entire nation of Jamaica.
Trump Officials, Billionaires and the Quiet Reshaping of America’s Public Lands
A controversial land swap orchestrated by the mega rich could be “a harbinger of what’s to come” for public lands…
Watchdogs Urge Senate to Investigate Samuel Alito’s Oil Stock Conflicts
The justice’s failure to recuse himself in cases involving the industry looks unethical, the groups say.
Farmers Are Collateral Damage in Trump’s Iran War
Inside America’s fertilizer crisis.
A Hallowed Monument to US History May Be Assailed by Data Centers
The proposed AI project next to Manassas National Battlefield Park would be the size of 61 Pentagons.
Smuggled in Syringes: Inside Nairobi’s Black Market in Giant Harvester Ants
Criminal cases in Kenya point to growing demand for the critters as exotic pets in Asia and Europe.