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The Biden Administration Protects Millions of Acres of Arctic Alaska

Latest NewsAlaskaJenny Shalant
The new Special Areas Rule in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska could boost biodiversity and empower Indigenous Peoples to defend the lands they’ve relied on for generations.
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“Forever Chemicals” Called PFAS Show Up in Your Food, Clothes, and Home

ExplainerUnited StatesMolly M. Ginty, Courtney Lindwall
These toxic chemicals are so common in consumer products and manufacturing that they’re everywhere—including inside our bodies.
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In Planning for Climate Change, Native Americans Draw on the Past

ExplainerUnited States, CanadaTim Vanderpool
Across North America, Indigenous tribes and nations are consulting their traditional ecological knowledge to help prepare for a warming world.

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5G Coming to Your Neighborhood?

Expert BlogSharon Buccino
The next generation of wireless technology—5G—is dramatically different from previous versions. The 5G technology will enable more data to be carried more quickly, but in many places relies on higher frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum. As a result, its signal…

Caring for Our Ocean in Crisis

Expert BlogKelsey Kane-Ritsch, Alison Chase
Recent ocean science paints a dire picture for the ocean, but also points the way for us to create a better, healthier future – if we act now.

Defending Ocean Ecosystems from Fossil Fuel Exploitation

Expert BlogIrene Gutierrez
Offshore oil drilling has a host of negative effects on the environment, from the harms to marine life caused by oil exploration, pollution from drilling waste, to the devastating environmental consequences of oil spills.

States Can Leverage SNAP for Healthy Food & Strong Economies

Expert BlogMargaret Brown, Sara Imperiale
Every family has the right to a healthy and varied diet, but in too many communities, fresh produce is not available or affordable. As part of a package of policies that expand and strengthen SNAP in the face of the…

NRDC Stands Up for Racial Justice

Expert BlogGina McCarthy
We have a responsibility to be fully and visibly committed to the fight against systemic racism and for justice, equity, and hope.

Interior Fast Tracks Roll Back of Bird Protections

Expert BlogKatie Umekubo
A just-released draft environmental impact statement confirms that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is poised to ignore any science or public input that stands in the way of recklessly rewriting the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

INVEST: A Roadmap to Sustainable, Equitable Transportation

Expert BlogStephanie Gidigbi Jenkins, Ann Shikany
This reauthorization is an opportunity for Congress to remake our transportation system as one that works for all and towards a sustainable, equitable, and prosperous future, and we feel the INVEST in America Act rises to that challenge.