The NYPD Descent on Columbia, Told by Student Journalists
The mayor and the police blamed “outside agitators” for campus protests. Student journalists reported what they saw.
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Europe must defend its deforestation law
We are now in a make-or break-moment for the landmark law to halt imported global deforestation into the European Union. Global forest defenders watch with bated breath as in the next few days, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen will either decide to support the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), or to […]
U.S. avocado policy must account for monarch butterfly habitat
Monarch butterflies are returning to gardens across the United States, but a few months ago, I stood in a mountain forest in Mexico where the monarchs spend the winter. They clustered on trees by the thousands and when the sun hit them, they swarmed in a cloud of bright orange confetti. I was surrounded by […]
Yellowstone National Park 2024 road improvement projects
Yellowstone National Park 2024 road improvement projects
Day-use trail closures scheduled for a section of the North Kaibab Trail
The National Park Service is announcing temporary day-use trail closures for the North Kaibab Trail north of the Manzanita Day Use Area to the Supai Tunnel. The Manzanita Day Use Area will be available for use during the closures.
Grand Canyon National Park announces reopening of trails and campground April 15
The National Park Service is announcing Havasupai Gardens Campground and the Bright Angel and Tonto Trails will reopen for public use April 15, 2024. The areas were closed Dec. 1, 2023, for Transcanyon Waterline project construction activities. Plateau Point Trail, from Havasupai Gardens to Plateau Point remains closed until June 20, 2024. During this time, Tonto Trail hikers will be able to use a trail detour to connect to and from the Bright Angel Trail.
Laos offers land-rights lessons for forest carbon projects
It’s a hot and humid afternoon in Vientiane, the capital of Laos. Our contact at Burapha Agro-Forestry welcomes us to an empty boardroom full of maps. The meeting goes smoothly, though we can’t help noticing that our contact is the only employee in office. “Why is it empty?” we wonder. Before we get the answer, […]
Cargo ship collides with Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland
In a significant maritime incident early Tuesday morning, a large container ship, MV Dali, collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge on Baltimore's beltway, collapsing an entire span of the bridge. This accident has…
Islamic State Khorasan Province claims responsibility for attack at Crocus City Hall, Krasnogorsk
Armed gunmen killed more than 133 people and injured more than 145, including children, at a music concert at Crocus City Hall, Krasnogorsk, near Moscow, Russia on Friday evening. Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K…
Everglades National Park closes Gulf Coast canoe/kayak launch and visitor contact station for construction
Everglades National Park closes Gulf Coast canoe/kayak launch and visitor contact station for construction
Why Plant-Based Burgers at Fast Food Chains Get So… Mushy
When my friend Chad opened his new burger shop two years ago, he was eager to offer plant-based meat options. “We had so many requests,” he tells Sentient, and he wanted to get it right. He entrusted me, his vegan pal,…
Yellowstone National Park’s winter season wraps up
Yellowstone National Park’s winter season wraps up
Unions Join the Fight to Slash Economic Development Tax Breaks
When local authorities hand out subsidies, school budgets lose revenue. The state teachers union is now pushing back.
Laundry offers free showers to homeless people
LaundReCycle is energy and water self-sufficient. It has been running since 2021 at the Streetscapes Urban Farm.
It’s Hard to Get a Criminal Case Heard in New York’s Top Court. The New Chief Judge May Change That.
Some Court of Appeals judges are far more likely to grant requests to hear appeals than others, a New York Focus analysis found.
Conservation needs clearer communication
The Business of Conservation conference was held in Rwanda in August 2023. In the lead up, my social media feeds were full of NGOs I follow advertising their attendance and the sessions they were involved in. The small NGO I was working with, only a year old, decided against attending, mainly a strategic decision around […]
Bangladesh's western hoolock gibbons need urgent conservation funding
Western hoolock gibbons (Hoolock hoolock), native to the forests of northeastern India, western Myanmar, and eastern Bangladesh, are among the world’s most threatened primates, listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List. Previously, they were listed among the 25 most endangered primates, and Bangladesh’s gibbon population may be the most precarious, with an estimated 300-400 […]
False U.N. claims entice Indigenous communities into forest-rights deals
Reporting for this story was supported by the Dom Phillips Grant of the Rainforest Journalism Fund in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center, and it won the 2025 International Anti-Corruption Excellence (ACE) Award for Investigative Journalism. IQUITOS, Peru — On the Peruvian side of the Yavarí River, overlooking the lush Brazilian shore, a weary Matsés man […]
Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark, announces abdication
During her annual New Year's Eve address on Sunday, Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark, informed the public that she planned to step down on January 14. Crown Prince Frederik, her oldest son, is to succeed
Russian photographer Viktor Pinchuk presents exhibition The Architectural Art of the Vanished Civilizations of Mesoamerica
On November 4, Russian Wikinews attended Russian photographer Viktor Pinchuk's exhibition The Architectural Art of the Vanished Civilizations of Mesoamerica ((ru))Russian language: Архитектурное Искуство Исчезнувших…
