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To Fight Wildfire, California Gets a Surprising Solution: a New Sawmill

To Fight Wildfire, California Gets a Surprising Solution: a New Sawmill

(Bloomberg) -- As California braces for another potentially devastating wildfire season, state officials and some environmental advocates are finding hope for forests in an...

Is the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act ready for climate action?

Is the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act ready for climate action?

But the bill’s text never mentions climate change — despite the myriad impacts that climate change is having on wildlife species and habitats. Some worry that RAWA might be a...

 The United States and Canada Enhance Their Joint Plant Protection Efforts

The United States and Canada Enhance Their Joint Plant Protection Efforts

[Dr. Mark Davidson (left), USDA Deputy Administrator for Plant Protection and Quarantine, and David Bailey, Acting Executive Director of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s...

Bird Warde Wants to Introduce You to Your Next Favorite Animal

Bird Warde Wants to Introduce You to Your Next Favorite Animal

Bird Warde is a freelance illustrator in Cincinnati who designed Audubon's 2022 Let's Go Birding Together collection. Their work focuses on the natural world—not just birds, but...

How We Can Help Marine Protected Areas Save Our Ocean

How We Can Help Marine Protected Areas Save Our Ocean

In January 1790, a ship named The Bounty landed on a small speck of land jutting out of the Pacific Ocean. The uninhabited island, barely 2 miles long and 1 mile wide, would...

Protecting neighborhoods from future flames

Protecting neighborhoods from future flames

“If they’d stayed at home, they would’ve likely perished,” said Dan Efseaff, the Paradise Recreation and Park District manager. Sparked by electrical transmission lines, the...

First in the Nation, California Proposes Ending Subsidies To Connect New Buildings to the Gas System

First in the Nation, California Proposes Ending Subsidies To Connect New Buildings to the Gas System

California is taking important steps towards ending its reliance on fossil fuels, thanks to a recent well-overdue decision by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)....

No-till and cover crops yield success in a northern setting

No-till and cover crops yield success in a northern setting

Greg Amundson, Gilby, North Dakota, had been sitting on the fence about making a full switch to no-till. He’d experimented with it and was growing cover crops to protect his...

Suffered from 2020 or 2021 natural disasters? More help is on the way, says USDA

Suffered from 2020 or 2021 natural disasters? More help is on the way, says USDA

Another phase in assistance to commodity and specialty crop producers impacted by natural disaster events in 2020 and 2021 is underway, the USDA announced Thursday. More than...

Dangerous Heat Wave Building in U.S. West Could Break Records - EcoWatch

Dangerous Heat Wave Building in U.S. West Could Break Records - EcoWatch

A propane truck drives past The World's Tallest Thermometer displaying a temperature above 107°F ahead of an expected heat wave in Baker, California on Aug. 30, 2022. PATRICK T....

Radioactive Waste ‘Everywhere’ at Ohio Oilfield Facility, Says Former Worker

Radioactive Waste ‘Everywhere’ at Ohio Oilfield Facility, Says Former Worker

As Bill Torbett and his colleagues went about their work, handling the sloppy radioactive detritus of oilfields in a cavernous building in eastern Ohio, their skin and clothing...

Kansas research shows reintroducing bison on tallgrass prairie doubles plant diversity

Kansas research shows reintroducing bison on tallgrass prairie doubles plant diversity

Decades of research led by scientists at Kansas State University offered evidence reintroducing bison to roam the tallgrass prairie gradually doubled plant diversity and...