WORDS: DONNY O’NEILL The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Wednesday that it will permit logging and allow roads to be constructed on 9.3 million acres of Alaska’s Tongass national forest, lifting regulations that protected the world’s...
Let’s talk about the elephant (fart) in the room: methane. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, even though it doesn’t stick around in the atmosphere as long as carbon dioxide (methane gets reabsorbed after about 12 years compared to the centuries it takes...
Bears Ears. Grand Staircase-Escalante. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve been following the news over the last year or so, chances are you’ve heard about recent threats to these three protected places, or at least seen their names circulating on social media,...
