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The ‘Biggest Tragedy’ of Trump’s Gutting of the National Park Service

Charles F. Sams III, former director of the park service, says cutting nearly a quarter of the agency’s staff decimated institutional knowledge in a way that can’t easily be righted, and threatens to break the emotional bonds Americans have with public lands.

By Blaine Harden

Low clouds blanket Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state. Credit: Craig Tuttle/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Ted Bundy, Serial Killers and Lead Exposure: Exploring the Connection Between Neurotoxins and Violence

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Indictment of US Forest Service ‘Burn Boss’ in Oregon Could Chill ‘Good Fires’ Across the Country

By Grant Stringer

In Oregon, a New Program Is Training Burn Bosses to Help Put More “Good Fire” on the Ground

By Grant Stringer

Inside Climate News reporter Liza Gross (right) takes the handoff of a cougar kitten from Caitlin Kupar, of Panthera, a global wild cat conservation organization, while accompanying biologists with the organization's Olympic Cougar Project to a cougar den on the Olympic Peninsula. Credit: Michael Kodas/Inside Climate News

Q&A: A Reporter Joins Scientists as They Work to Stop the Killing of Cougars

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, “Living on Earth”

A Week After the Pacific Northwest Heat Wave, Study Shows it Was ‘Almost Impossible’ Without Global Warming

By Bob Berwyn

A Deadly Summer in the Pacific Northwest Augurs More Heat Waves, and More Deaths to Come

By Bob Berwyn, James Bruggers, Liza Gross

Battle in Pacific Northwest over 800-Mile Route to Canada's Oil Sands Heats Up

By Stacy Feldman

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