"Holy Wisdom Monastery Restoring Rare Landscape With Horse-Powered Help"
"Rosebud and Duchess seemed anxious to get to work as they heard trees being felled on a recent misty November morning."
Source: Wisconsin State Journal, 11/27/2017
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In Peru’s Deserts, Melting Glaciers Are a Godsend (Until They’re Gone)
"Accelerating glacial melt in the Andes caused by climate change has set off a gold rush downstream,
letting the desert bloom. But as the ice vanishes, the vast farms below may do the same."
Source: NY Times, 11/27/2017
"North Atlantic’s Greatest Survivors Are Hunted Once More"
"After decades of recovery, right whales are now under threat from industrial fishing".
Source: Guardian, 11/27/2017
"Interior: Right And Left Wings Battle Over Migratory Bird Treaty"
"Federal officials might be grounded from pursuing companies whose operations incidentally kill migratory birds, under a two-pronged maneuver now advancing publicly on Capitol Hill and quietly inside the Interior Department."
Source: Greenwire, 11/27/2017
"A Poison In Our Island"
"Rising seas caused by climate change are seeping inside a United States nuclear waste dump on a remote and low-lying Pacific atoll, flushing out radioactive substances left behind from some of the world’s largest atomic weapons tests."
Source: Australian ABC, 11/27/2017
"BLM: Potential Chief Vows To Push Local Input, Reduce Monuments"
"Wyoming-based property rights attorney Karen Budd-Falen recently vowed that if she is confirmed to lead the Bureau of Land Management, she will 'advocate for local government involvement,' criticizing an inside-the-Beltway mindset that she said currently pervades land-use planning."
Source: Greenwire, 11/27/2017
"Why Lost Ice Means Lost Hope for an Inuit Village"
"The only road to Rigolet, Labrador, is the ice. But climate change is making that ice vanish, and the mental health impact runs deep."
"ON SEA ICE NEAR RIGOLET, Labrador — Leaning over the handlebars with one knee up on the seat, Derrick Pottle commanded his snowmobile between rocks and sheets of gray sea ice before stopping suddenly at the mouth of a bay.
“It’s open,” Mr. Pottle said, turning off his machine. Ten yards away, the ice had cracked and opened a dark hole in the water that made it impossible to drive across the inlet.
Source: NY Times, 11/27/2017
Mexico Creates Largest Marine Reserve In North America
"Mexico’s government has created a marine park the size of Illinois in the Pacific, the largest ocean reserve in North America for the conservation of giant rays, whales and turtles, including dozens of species endemic to the area."
Source: Reuters, 11/27/2017
"EPA: Buyout Stories: 'We Are Kind Of Being Hollowed Out'"
"Barbara Aldridge knew it was time to leave U.S. EPA. Now 64, she had worked at the agency for 26 years, restoring wetlands along the Gulf Coast and policing Superfund compliance. But Aldridge's husband died last year, and then the election ushered in the Trump administration — and a reckoning for EPA."
Source: Greenwire, 11/27/2017
"Trump’s Interior Department Is Flooded With Industry Lobbyists"
"Lobbyists in key positions with the U.S. Department of the Interior now number 13, making the nation’s public lands agency a leading example of President Donald Trump’s policy of filling government posts with former advocates for special interests."
Source: Reveal, 11/27/2017
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