by Curtis Johnson | Oct 6, 2026 | Alaska, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Conservation, Deregulation, Endangered Species, Forest Service, forests, Indigenous Peoples, logging, Mining, News Analysis, Tongass, Tongass National Forest, Trump Administration, US Forest Service, USDA, Wildfires, Wildlife
On August 18, Donald Trump’s United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) officially proposed eliminating the national Roadless Rule. If finalized, the repeal would strip protections from 44.7 million acres of wild intact forest. The rule, passed in 2001, protects in total 58 million acres of forest from road building, logging, fossil fuel extraction, and other development.
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by Amy Goodman | Jun 23, 2026 | Conservation, Ecotourism, Endangered Species, Interview, Israel, Lebanon, Sea Turtles
Acclaimed conservationist Mona Khalil was killed by an Israeli strike on her beachside home in the village of al-Mansouri in southern Lebanon. The 76-year-old spent more than 25 years working to protect endangered sea turtles, and her work helped turn a stretch of southern Lebanon’s coastline into one of the most important nesting sites for endangered sea turtles in the eastern Mediterranean.
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