Environment
Make America dirty again? Bluegreen Alliance slams EPA deregulation plans
March 13, 2025The days of rivers catching on fire and skylines disappearing will return.
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Some brief notes about coca in Bolivia
March 11, 2025A North American traveling to some parts of South America—Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, for example—is intrigued by these lands as the locus for a major source of drugs in the United States, cocaine in particular.
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Questions and confusion as Trump pauses key funding for shrinking Colorado River
March 6, 2025Halted funding threatens the sustainability of the entire system, experts say.
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People demand an end to Trump-Musk destruction of national parks
March 4, 2025Mass march and rally this week to save Olympic National Park in Washington State repeated across the country.
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Trump’s NOAA firings will be ‘dangerously risky’ to Americans’ well-being, experts warn
March 3, 2025“The nation will be compromised in safety, science and international standing."
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