When flames were spotted within one of the world’s tallest trees, firefighters flooded the area. Drones, aircraft and hand crews worked for days to tame the fire, successfully…
Read more One of the world’s tallest trees is burning. Why can’t firefighters put it out?They are sprawling lands of seemingly endless vistas and soaring plateaus. The red canyons are sprinkled with ancient rock art and historic Indigenous settlements. Normally nonconfrontational paleontologists were…
Read more Trump downsized national monuments. Biden restored them. Project 2025 calls for reductions againU.S real estate investment trusts today manage $4.5 trillion in real estate worldwide. Many groups on Wall Street offer these tax-friendly funds to retail investors. KKR’s real estate…
Read more How Wall Street’s REIT giants are reshaping U.S. real estateANCHORAGE, Alaska — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed restrictions that would block plans for a copper and gold mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region that…
Read more EPA proposes restrictions to block proposed Alaska mineBASS RIVER TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Up to 2.4 million trees would be cut down as part of a project to prevent major wildfires in a federally protected New…
Read more Fire plan would cut 2.4 million New Jersey Pinelands treesFLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The Interior Department announced Friday that it will consider revising a set of guidelines for operating two major dams on the Colorado River in the…
Read more New US plan could lead to federal action on Colorado RiverSALEM, Ore. — When U.S. Forest Service personnel carried out a prescribed burn in a national forest in Oregon on Oct. 13, it wound up burning fencing that…
Read more ‘Burn boss’ arrest inflames Western land use tensionsSACRAMENTO, Calif. — With California’s four-year-old legal marijuana market in disarray, the state’s top prosecutor said Tuesday that he will try a new broader approach to disrupting illegal…
Read more California expands largest US illegal pot eradication effort
