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The deference shown to industry concerns conservation groups and Game and Fish retirees, who called the agency's shrinkage of a protected corridor antithetical to science-based wildlife management. "If it's going to be a political decision, let the politicians own it," one biologist said.

Wyoming appeases stockgrowers, trims Red Desert and southwestern Winds from ‘Path of the Pronghorn’ - WyoFile

Wyoming Game and Fish retirees and conservation groups say the state agency's planned shrinkage of a protected corridor runs counter to science-based wildlife management.

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Today, in a move that has alarmed conservationists, the Department of the Interior unveiled a proposal to rescind the Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule—effectively removing conservation as an equal priority in public-land management. #publiclands #BLM #protectpubliclands #parkchat

Interior Department Proposes to Rescind Wildly Popular Public Lands Rule

Mining, drilling, and logging is now officially more important than land conservation

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‘The Trump administration is hobbling Australian scientists studying dwindling sea ice in Antarctica with a sudden decision to shut down civilian access to key satellite data, as research reveals the alarming effects of “extraordinarily low” sea ice.’ #climatecrisis www.smh.com.au/environment/...

Trump cuts satellite data on Antarctic sea ice just as it’s needed most

Scientists at the Australian Antarctic Partnership Program are just beginning to understand the dire effects of extremely low sea ice in the Antarctic summer, but they will lose access to their main d...

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BREAKING: A federal judge just blocked the Trump admin’s push to fast-track the Oak Flat land swap—halting the giveaway of sacred Apache land + rare desert ecosystems to a foreign mining giant until SCOTUS rules.

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most

A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.

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Researchers found 2% of amphibian species are already experiencing temperatures beyond their physiological limits. The study revealed that tropical species in the Southern Hemisphere face greater heat risk, and in the Northern Hemisphere, species at higher latitudes are more vulnerable.

Warming climate is already too hot to handle for 2% of amphibians, study shows

For about 2% of the world’s amphibian species, it’s already getting too hot to survive in their natural habitats, according to a new study in Nature. If the planet keeps warming unchecked, this…

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The monopoly utilities like PG&E are at it again: Trying to kill off rooftop solar by taking away the financial benefits of installing solar. They’re obsessed with maintaining their monopoly so they can charge ever-increasing rates (enabled by state regulators). We must reject this monopoly play.

California wants to kill rooftop solar — all because officials were duped by this flawed theory

Too many officials have bought a key utility company excuse for rising energy prices — solar ‘cost shift.’

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