Trump officials seek to weaken historic-preservation reviews of projects

The Trump administration is moving to rewrite federal historic-preservation rules to give agencies broader authority to advance projects with less public input and narrower protections for historic si...

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Trump administration allows killing of species threatened with extinction

Regulatory changes to reinterpret the Endangered Species Act also demand that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service consider the economic toll of habitat protection.

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Slavery exhibit swapped overnight at Philadelphia’s Independence Park

The National Park Service replaced panels that discussed the horrors of slavery and George Washington’s ownership of enslaved people.

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Trump’s helicopter flights to resume from Ellipse, breaking South Lawn tradition

The park south of the White House will become a temporary landing zone for the president’s Marine One flights, which have been on hold for two months from construction.

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Trump’s vision for White House park: 47 trees to mark his presidency

The president has called Lafayette Square the entrance to the White House. Contractors have been renovating the park for months and are likely to miss Trump’s original goal of reopening before July 4.

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As Wildfire Risks Rise, Forest Service Shutters Labs That Study Them

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Trump’s border wall expansion just bulldozed an ancient tribal site

Construction in the Arizona desert damaged an enormous Indigenous ground etching resembling a fish that is thought to be at least 1,000 years old.

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Trump withdraws nominee to lead national parks as peak tourist season nears

The withdrawal of tourism executive Scott Socha marks a fresh setback for the National Park Service amid cuts during the Trump administration.

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Company claims cloud-seeding breakthrough could help the parched West

Rainmaker says it is the first U.S. commercial cloud-seeding operation to prove it has generated water, in efforts to battle drought in Utah and Idaho.

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A massive border wall expansion is underway

The aggressive pace of expansion has alarmed advocates who say the construction will destroy pristine country, threaten endangered species, and cut off access to sacred Indigenous and archaeological s...

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Exclusive: Soy trading firms to abandon Amazon protection pact in Brazil

Some of the world's largest soybean traders are preparing to break their agreement to curb deforestation of the Amazon rainforest to preserve tax benefits in Brazil's top farm state, two people with d...

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Brazil says it’s a climate leader. Not everyone buys it.

Brazil wanted the U.N. summit to make it a leader on climate, despite signing off on oil drilling near the Amazon and gutting environmental permit law.

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A new generation rallies to preserve the Boundary Waters wilderness

The Trump administration is moving rapidly to approve a mine next to the Boundary Waters that many fear will pollute the pristine wilderness area.

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Lula expected to announce Brazil's top climate diplomat as COP30 president

Brazil is expected to announce on Tuesday that ambassador Andre Correa do Lago will be president of the 2025 COP30 global climate summit in the Amazonian city of Belem, three people with knowledge of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's plans told Reuters.

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Brazilian meatpacker JBS says net-zero emissions pledge was 'never a promise'

The world's largest meatpacker, JBS, became in 2021 the first of its peers to commit to cutting or offsetting all its emissions by 2040, and to ending illegal deforestation across its long supply chain that starts in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon.

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Brazil farmer lobby asks to lift soybean ban from deforested Amazon rainforest

A farmers' lobby in Brazil is seeking to end a two-decade-long agreement that forbids grain traders from buying soybeans from farms on deforested land in the Amazon rainforest, claiming the deal has created an uneven playing field.

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EU, Mercosur set to finalise contentious trade deal

The European Union and South America's Mercosur bloc are expected on Friday to finalise a free trade agreement but it faces a tortuous battle for approval in Europe given firm French opposition.

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Soy traders push to weaken ban on buying from deforested Amazon

Multinational grains traders operating in Brazil are seeking to weaken an agreement that forbids buying soybeans from farms on deforested land in the Amazon rainforest, environmental advocates involved in the discussions said on Wednesday.

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Indigenous mining complicates Brazil's fight against illegal gold

The involvement of Indigenous people in illegal gold hunting, lured by the prospect of easy money due to record prices, has made Brazil's task of cracking down on wildcat mining in the Amazon far harder, environmental agents and police say.

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Brazil grain barge shipping returns as Amazonian drought subsides

Transportation of soybeans and corn on barges along the Brazilian Amazon's Tapajos River, which had been suspended in early October due to dry weather, resumed at 50% capacity this week, operators said on Wednesday.

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G20 leaders turn focus to climate change at close of Rio summit

Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies meet on Tuesday to discuss sustainable development and the transition to cleaner energy, as they aim to increase the odds of a successful deal to address global warming at U.N. climate talks in Azerbaijan.

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