One of the excuses the Trump administration offered for moving to rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule that protects over 60 million acres of US Forest Service lands -- our lands -- was to provide more road access to fight wildfires. But a new study published in the journal Fire Ecology , and summarized in Inside Climate News , reviewed the history of wildfire ignitions from 1992 to 2024 and found that wildfires were four times more likely to ignite within 50 meters of a road tha

Can technology help solve environmental problems facing our planet? Sometimes. And sometimes those solutions come from the youngest among us. This inspiring article in Smithsonian magazine about two teenagers in Portugal is bound to lift your spirits. Not only because of the utility of the invention they developed, but because at such a young age they did this. Since the early 2000s, Portugal has lost over half of its forest cover, triggering erosion, water l

Wildland fire Fresh off 2023's historic court decision in Montana, twenty-two plaintiffs aged 7 to 25 have filed suit against the Trump...

This linked 5-minute video tells a very big story -- so big that there has never been such a restoration of a river system and its salmon...

March is finally here, the month when spring arrives (according to my calendar), and our first migratory nesting birds return from their...

This past summer, Arctic temperatures reached their warmest ever translating into thawing permafrost, flooding due to melting glaciers,...

A n article published in The Proceedings of the National Academies of Science lays out a developing cycle resulting from increasing...