What's at Stake: Making Farmland Work for Wildlife
September 21, 2017 —
51猎奇入口 California's Samantha Arthur joined forces with dairy farmers to save the Tricolored Blackbird. The proposed USDA budget would see the partnership and possibly even the species go extinct.
September 21, 2017 —
As part of a much larger potential cut, Jenna Harper and her staff at Florida鈥檚 Apalachicola Reserve stand to lose 70 percent of their funding. The people and wildlife that depend on them stand to lose everything.
What's at Stake: Fighting for Environmental Justice
September 21, 2017 —
Margaret Gordon鈥檚 reports on pollution in her West Oakland neighborhood allege racial discrimination by the city and industries. They鈥檒l be ignored if the EPA鈥檚 environmental justice initiatives are hobbled.
What's at Stake: Training a Generation of Scientists
September 21, 2017 —
Ellen George has barely begun her scientific career studying a little鈥攁nd a little-known鈥攆ish called the cisco. Proposed budget cuts to graduate funding and fisheries science threaten to cut it short.
September 21, 2017 —
Dennis Ojima helps Great Plains ranchers adapt to the local impacts of climate change鈥攏amely, drought. But if Trump's budget goes through, funding for the nation鈥檚 climate science centers would also dry up.
What's at Stake: Holding Big Polluters Accountable
September 21, 2017 —
As the former head of the EPA鈥檚 Office of Enforcement and Compliance, Cynthia Giles knows how the office鈥檚 proposed budget cuts鈥攖otaling more than $125 million鈥攃ould let major polluters off the hook.
September 21, 2017 —
With Matt Hepler鈥檚 help, Appalachians are leading investigations, lawsuits, and economic ventures to reclaim neglected lands and tainted waters.鈥� The White House seems determined to get in their way.
The 'I'iwi, a Besieged Hawaiian Forest Bird, Is Now Listed as Threatened
September 20, 2017 —
Placing the native honeycreeper under federal protection marks what scientists hope will be the beginning of a long road to recovery.