45 Years After Nixon Signed It Into Law, the War on the Endangered Species Act Continues
The ocelot is an endangered, wild cat native to North America.Leonardo Prest Mercon Ro/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Forty-five years ago, on December 28th, 1973, President Richard Nixon, a Republican, signed a piece of monumental environmental legislation, the Endangered Species Act, into law. At the time, Nixon issued a…
Looking Back on Ryan Zinke’s Reign Over 500 Million Acres of Public Land
William Campbell-Corbis via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who is departing Jan. 2 amid multiple ethics investigations, leaves a legacy of widespread attacks on science. Zinke was in charge of balancing protection of national parks, endangered species, waterways and other resources with public uses on 500 million…
Report: The GOP Economic Outlook for Arctic Wilderness Drilling Is a “Pipe Dream”
The report, published Wednesday by conservation nonprofit The Wilderness Society, comes as the Trump administration weighs a proposal to allow seismic surveys in the refuge. The surveys would be a key first step in the administration’s push to approve drilling leases as early as 2019. Late last year, GOP lawmakers passed a wildly unpopular tax…
Scientists Are Using Penguin Poop to Understand How Climate Change Is Affecting the Arctic
assimo Rumi/Barcroft Images/Barcroft Media via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Wired. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Satellites watch many things as they orbit the Earth: hurricanes brewing in the Caribbean, tropical forests burning in the Amazon, even North Korean soldiers building missile launchers. But some researchers have…
Ryan Zinke Is Resigning, and the Internet’s Reaction Is Priceless
Tom Williams/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Saturday, President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that his Interior secretary, Ryan Zinke, will be leaving his position in the coming weeks. Zinke’s tenure overseeing the nation’s public lands has been controversial and has resulted in a number of federal investigations. (He…
Ryan Zinke Out as Interior Secretary
George Frey/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump announced Saturday morning that Ryan Zinke—who, as Interior Secretary, oversees nearly one-fifth of all land in the United States—will leave his post at the end of the year. Trump said he will nominate a new secretary in the next week,…