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Oil and gas permitting in national forests may get easier

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On Tuesday Sept. 1, the Trump administration published a proposed rule-making that could open up the 193 million acres of National Forest Service lands...

Natural Habitat Adventures to offset air travel emissions for all clients

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When Court Whelan isn’t leading zero-waste adventures through Yellowstone, watching polar bears from a rover in the Canadian Arctic, or taking teachers and curious...

How to save the economy and climate together

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The warnings are stark. With the COVID-19 crisis wreaking global havoc and the overheating atmosphere threatening far worse in the long term, especially if...

Grasshopper invasion?

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Grasshoppers. Coming soon to a field, garden or yard near you. Eating everything of plant material, including cotton T-shirts on clothes lines. Or so rumor has it. It came up at my book club meeting, where a couple of members said they heard about it recently on ...

Nature bats last

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The coronavirus pandemic has made humans think a lot about animals. Take, for instance, the deluge of foster home applications that hit animal shelters...

Bearing witness

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A stocky Western bluebird makes his home in a nest box.  The tenant’s glimmering blue suit, interrupted by a rusted vest, catches Mary Young’s attention,...

Just another plant

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In five test fields across the state, hemp plants are pushing toward the sun in the nation’s first hemp seed certification program. The global...

Water footprints

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Costa Rican beer company Imperial made a bold statement last month with the announcement of “the world’s first and only water positive beer.” It’s...

Fried fish, smothered fish

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First thing every morning, Ryan Votta walks across the Durango Fish Hatchery campus and over to the isolation unit. Before stepping inside, he disinfects...

Predicting seasons of the sun

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Although you might take it for granted that the sun is extremely stable over time, the star at the center of our solar system...

Rooting for change

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When Elizabeth Black was a kid growing up in Hawaii, she spent her days running without shoes between the banyan trees, sometimes as large...

A fitness tracker for the planet

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For 26 years the Earth Guardians have been working to amplify the voices of the world’s youth in the environmental and social justice movements....