Natural Resources

"President Trump’s proposed cuts to the National Park Service (NPS) are troubling some Republicans."

"Planned programs to protect dunes and beaches on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens are eroded by broken promises from Trump’s EPA." 

"World leaders, scientists and officials gathered on Monday to open the third United Nations Ocean Conference and launch a global appeal to save the world's oceans, which scientists say are in bad health." "Glaringly absent are U.S. scientific agencies like NASA and NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Their scientists weren't allowed to attend the summit, say organizers."

"The Trump administration wants to unplug a high-powered U.S. Geological Survey research program whose scientists have helped protect wildlife, manage forests, thwart pests and illuminate nature for over three decades."

"The “SuperAdobe” homes of CalEarth are receiving plenty of attention after wildfires devastated parts of Los Angeles. Why aren’t we building them everywhere?" 

"A legacy of mining means that toxic metals could be carried along plumes of smoke." 

"The Trump administration on Friday greenlighted the expansion of a scandal-hit underground coal mine in Montana, one of the nation’s largest, cutting short a federal environmental review and putting into action a key element of President Trump’s plan to revive America’s coal industry."

"Governments are meeting in France to discuss how to protect oceans from harmful fishing practices, like bottom trawling."

"A little-known provision of Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill would open thousands of acres of public lands at the edge of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters wilderness to a foreign-owned mining company."