This story is a couple of years old, but for a Sunday afternoon, it's worth a talk. One thing that people have worried about with big-time solar fields is what it would to an area's ecology. I mean, the problem with them is that if...
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I may be a westerner from west of the Cascades--the endlessly rainy corner of the region--but all of my family on both sides were from eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and.
The National Environmental Policy Act of 1970 was one of the truly groundbreaking laws in American history, creating the entire idea of citizen review of development projects for environmental impact..
Trumpism is devastating our forests for profit. When the Forest Service approved the sale of nearly 70 acres for commercial logging in southern Illinois’ Shawnee National Forest in late 2024, Sam Stearns was furious. The Shawnee is the only national forest in the state, and...
Brett Christophers has an excellent essay at the London Review of Books, going over a number of new books writing about waste and recycling and making the point that the.
It's so great that the media took Trump's claims that Project 2025's architects wouldn't rule his administration seriously.... The environmental rollbacks came one after the next this week, potentially affecting.
Great success on the salmon returning on the Klamath River. And thanks to whoever it was who linked to this in comments: A little more than a year after the historic removal of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River, California Department of Fish and...
You can't turn an animal into an industrial product without nature adjusting and leading severe problems, as we are seeing with bees this year. Bret Adee is one of the.
Well this is weird. A ship that docked in Cleveland last summer harbored what scientists believe was a previously unknown form of life. The revelation occurred after the research vessel Blue.
While Trump and RFK are doing whatever possible to ensure that Americans don't get vaccinated, the administration is also Making America Healthy Again by ensuring that forever chemicals don't get cleaned up. By the time Trump was sworn in for his second term, many of...
Always worth remembering that Trump always repays the people who support him by seeking to kill them. Just one year ago, JD Vance was a leading advocate of the Great.
It was the Christmas Bird Count recently and I like birds a lot, though I'm too lazy to be a serious birder. Still, I have a lot of good bird.