Conservation

September 21, 2017 — Margaret Gordon’s reports on pollution in her West Oakland neighborhood allege racial discrimination by the city and industries. They’ll be ignored if the EPA’s environmental justice initiatives are hobbled.

September 21, 2017 — Ellen George has barely begun her scientific career studying a little—and a little-known—fish called the cisco. Proposed budget cuts to graduate funding and fisheries science threaten to cut it short.

September 21, 2017 — Dennis Ojima helps Great Plains ranchers adapt to the local impacts of climate change—namely, drought. But if Trump's budget goes through, funding for the nation’s climate science centers would also dry up.

September 21, 2017 — As the former head of the EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance, Cynthia Giles knows how the office’s proposed budget cuts—totaling more than $125 million—could let major polluters off the hook.

September 21, 2017 — With Matt Hepler’s help, Appalachians are leading investigations, lawsuits, and economic ventures to reclaim neglected lands and tainted waters.​ The White House seems determined to get in their way.

September 20, 2017 — Placing the native honeycreeper under federal protection marks what scientists hope will be the beginning of a long road to recovery.

September 18, 2017 — A leaked memo shows the Interior Secretary wants to shrink four western monuments and overhaul management of six others.

September 14, 2017 — Mike Cherkiss tracks Florida's crocodiles as part of a $6 million program that evaluates the $16 billion devoted to Everglades restoration. Trump's proposed budget would gut the program's funding.

September 08, 2017 — A tour of some of the affected islands shows the storm’s impacts, but also the surprising resilience of coastal ecosystems.

September 06, 2017 — The amount of plastic trash ending up in the birds' nests appears to be increasing—with dangerous and deadly results.