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Missing Lynx: How the Rise of Border Walls Has Divided Wildlife Populations

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The lynxes of the Białowieża forest once freely prowled through 548 square miles of ancient woodland. Then, in 2022, the habitat was abruptly sliced in two. Poland built a 115-mile wall across its border with Belarus to stop refugees and migrants […]

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Scientists Deem Trump’s Latest Funding Freeze a “Slow-Moving Apocalypse”

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The hits to science, and scientists, keep coming under the Trump administration. This week, the National Science Foundation (NSF), a government agency that funds research across the country, told staffers that “until further notice,” it will stop payments on grants it has already awarded for studies—and stop awarding new ones. That’s according to a scoop […]

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The Immigrant Families Trump Separated Years Ago Are Getting Another Raw Deal

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The immigrant families separated at the US-Mexico border during Trump’s first administration have gotten some bad news: Essentially, Trump’s second administration is taking away their lawyers and giving them new ones. The new ones work for the government. Put another way, the Trump administration, which has the power to deny immigrants’ applications to stay in […]

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After Trump Kills the National Climate Assessment, Scientists Vow to Create Their Own

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Two major US scientific societies have announced they will join forces to produce peer-reviewed research on the climate crisis’s impact days after Donald Trump’s administration dismissed contributors to a key Congress-mandated report on climate crisis preparedness. On Friday, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the […]

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“Going to Fallujah Was the Most Horrific Experience of Our Lives”

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It’s been just over 20 years since the Battle of Fallujah, a bloody campaign in a destructive Iraq War that we now know was based on a lie. There were no weapons of mass destruction. But back then, in the wake of 9/11, the battlefield was filled with young men and women who bought the like, […]

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Republicans Seek to Kill California Auto Pollution Rules Using a “Blatantly Illegal” Tactic

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration On a warm July morning in 1943, in the middle of World War II, a thick cloud of acrid smoke blanketed downtown Los Angeles, turning its clear blue skies into an inscrutable brown haze that left Angelenos with burning eyes, […]

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JD Vance Poses With TV Host Who Called for Violence Against LGBTQ People

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Steve Deace, the host of an eponymous show on the rightwing platform Blaze Media, has built a brand around his brash and provocative personality. Deace has entertained his 52,000 YouTube viewers and 274,000 X followers by calling for violence against drag queens and LGBTQ people and ranting that the Democratic party is controlled by Satan. […]

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Trump’s Mob-like Shakedown: A Scandal Starring “60 Minutes,” Paramount, and the FCC

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Once upon a time, but not so long ago, if an American president was involved with a company that had vital business before a federal agency, it would be expected that the chief executive would steer clear of all government deliberations about that firm and that his political appointees at this department would hand over […]

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A Massive Power Grab Could Help North Carolina Republicans Steal an Election

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Two weeks after the November 2024 election, the Republican-controlled legislature in North Carolina convened a lame-duck session for the ostensible purpose of passing a hurricane relief bill. But, with no public notice, they snuck provisions into the bill stripping power from the state’s incoming Democratic governor and attorney general and drastically changing how elections were administered. Most […]

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Scientists Are Ditching Cows to Make Butter From Greenhouse Gases

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Butter was long thought to be magic. Ancient civilizations imbued it with divine beliefs and it factored into 17th-century witch trials as evidence of the dark arts. Scientists have since decoded its chemistry, but a new version of this favorite dietary fat is making it seem otherworldly again: butter made from greenhouse gases. Scientists at […]

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Trump’s Rookie Moves Have Created Loads of Uncertainty—Even for Big Oil

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This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration Last week, the US Department of the Interior announced that it would speed up the approval process for certain fossil fuel projects, proclaiming that environmental analyses that previously would have taken years must now be taken down to, at maximum, a month. While the […]

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“An Anti-Trans Fever Dream”: HHS Publishes Attack on Gender-Affirming Youth Care

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Three months ago, Donald Trump’s administration issued an executive order attempting to stamp out standard-of-care medical treatments for transgender children. Doctors who provided such treatments would be prosecuted, it promised; hospitals would lose all federal funding. Buried in that order was a clause directing the top federal health agency to publish, within 90 days, a […]

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