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Listening to Silence: Why We Must Protect the World’s Quiet Places

by Elizabeth Duan | June 30, 2020
“It is a frosty March morning in the Hoh Rainforest, deep within Olympic National Park in Washington state. The forest is full of Jurassic ferns, hanging moss, and towering spruce and cedars, but what I hope to find is an absence. I seek a spot known as the “One Square Inch of ...

It Will Take Years to Undo the Damage from Trump’s Environmental Rollback

by Elizabeth Duan | June 29, 2020
“The Trump administration’s response to a pandemic that has killed more than 120,000 Americans and forced much of the country into a devastating economic slowdown has been a massive failure, leading to new levels of anger and disappointment at the president. But none of that has ...

Trump nominates controversial, longtime acting head of land management bureau as director

by Elizabeth Duan | June 26, 2020
“President Trump on Friday nominated William Perry Pendley, who has controversially served as the acting head of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for months, to lead the agency. “Pendley has a long record of opposing the very existence of the public lands he now oversees,” ...

Colorado should do more to control PFAS contamination

“There is growing scientific evidence that the COVID-19 virus disproportionately impacts those with compromised immune systems. Unfortunately, segments of the Colorado public may be more at risk because of long standing contamination from per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), ...

William Perry Pendley to be nominated to lead land management agency

“President Donald Trump on Friday said he plans to nominate William Perry Pendley, a controversial figure who would become Trump’s first head of the agency managing one-tenth of the nation’s land mass and vast amounts of underground oil, gas and minerals. Pendley’s ...

Wi-Fi in the Wilderness

by Elizabeth Duan | June 25, 2020
“In 2018, I went on a solo backpacking trip into the wild stone labyrinth of the Needles district in Canyonlands National Park. I had an iPhone with me, which I was using as a camera, and on a lark I decided to see if I could catch a signal. Sure enough, I could. I vowed ...
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