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    Trump Admin Moves Closer to Slashing Protections for World’s Largest Temperate Rainforest

    Trump Admin Moves Closer to Slashing Protections for World’s Largest Temperate Rainforest

    The Trump administration has moved one step closer to opening Earth’s largest intact temperate rainforest to logging. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service announced it would draft an environmental impact statement exempting Alaska’s Tongass National Forest from the 2001 Roadless Rule, which prohibits road construction and timber harvesting on 58.5 million acres […]

    Meet the Winner of Katmai National Park’s Fat Bear Week 2019

    Meet the Winner of Katmai National Park’s Fat Bear Week 2019

    Every fall for the past five years, Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska has celebrated Fat Bear Week: a chance, as NPR explained, for people around the world to vote March-Madness style on which coastal brown bear has gotten the chonkiest while gorging themselves in preparation for winter hibernation. This year’s event was the […]

    Canada’s Starving Grizzlies Mean Low Salmon Stock

    Canada’s Starving Grizzlies Mean Low Salmon Stock

    The effect the climate crisis will have on the food chain are already playing out in British Columbia. Low fish stocks this summer have caused southern resident killer whales to starve. And now, with winter fast approaching, a photographer captured images of an emaciated family of grizzly bears desperately searching for salmon where there are […]

    Hidden Trump Report Reveals Water Plan Will Harm Endangered Whales and Salmon

    Hidden Trump Report Reveals Water Plan Will Harm Endangered Whales and Salmon

    It’s become a familiar story with the Trump administration: Scientists write a report that shows the administration’s policies will cause environmental damage, then the administration buries the report and fires the scientists. The latest chapter in that book happened this summer in California when federal officials suppressed a scientific report that warned that the administration’s […]

    Why Everybody Is So Excited About 23 Salmon

    Why Everybody Is So Excited About 23 Salmon

    By Alisa Opar For Chinook salmon, the urge to return home and spawn isn’t just strong — it’s imperative. And for the first time in more than 65 years, at least 23 fish that migrated as juveniles from California’s San Joaquin River and into the Pacific Ocean have heeded that call and returned as adults […]

    ‘Artifishal’: New Film Asks, Have We Reached the End of Wild?

    ‘Artifishal’: New Film Asks, Have We Reached the End of Wild?

    That salmon sitting in your neighborhood grocery store’s fish counter won’t look the same to you after watching Artifishal, a new film from Patagonia. The project, which got its start when Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard wanted to make a film about the arrogance of humankind, turned out to be a film about salmon … and […]