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Recent News

  • Seeing Fewer Fireflies This Year? Here’s Why, and How You Can Help
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  • The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come
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  • Pender Landowner on Mission to Conserve Hundreds of Acres

This Fireworks Show is Like No Other

I’m on a Civil War battlefield in West Virginia late on a dark night, and I’ve got the Heebie-Jeebies.
At least I hope I do.

Black Alabamians Sue State Department of Transportation Over Repeated Flooding

Residents in the Shiloh Community have fought for years to remedy excessive stormwater runoff caused by an elevated highway. Now they’re suing.

Rachel Carson, Cancer, and the NIH

While writing Silent Spring, Rachel Carson was dying of metastasizing breast cancer. Often in agony before she died, Carson asked her friends and colleagues to form an organization, the Rachel Carson Council (RCC), to carry on her work.

The True Cost

The food on our plate carries a story. A story of hands that harvested, lands that were tilled, and the distance it traveled to be on the shelf of that grocery store. It’s a journey from soil to shelf. A simple grain of rice may have traveled thousands of miles.

The Environmental Injustice of Inaccessibility

My brother has fallen victim to the often overstated phenomenon of “range anxiety” that often deters consumers from purchasing electric vehicles. Rather than a Tesla battery, though, he is concerned with his electric wheelchair.

“Build the Wall!” Tri-Staters Scream in Unison

My childhood home will have ocean views after just a foot increase in sea level, which is under the current projected sea level for 2050.