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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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Canadian Trade Group Opposes U.S. Anti-Deforestation Bills

Expert BlogCanada, New York, CaliforniaAnthony Swift
The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) claims that applying proposed anti-deforestation legislation in California and New York to the boreal forest would threaten its business model.

Biden's Defense of Nature Protects Climate and Biodiversity

Expert BlogUnited StatesAnthony Swift, Dr. Lisa Suatoni
Biden's promise to protect 30% of terrestrial and marine ecosystems by 2030 is a critical part of a strategy to stop climate change, prevent species collapse and enhance the resiliency of our natural world and the communities that rely on…

Can We Talk About Toilet Paper?

Expert BlogUnited StatesAnthony Swift

We’re destroying forest ecosystems—and ancient, sacred First Nations communities—to satisfy the market for this everyday consumer product. We can and must do better.

Exxon's Arkansas Tar Sands Spill: The Tar Sands Name Game

Expert BlogUnited StatesAnthony Swift

As the American public becomes acquainted with images of tar sands flowing across lawns, driveways and streets of an Arkansas suburb near Little Rock, Exxon is now making the claim that the crude spilled from its ruptured Pegasus pipeline isn’t…