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
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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
