Can Roadless Areas Help Stem the Extinction Crisis in the United States?
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
“As a nation, we have to ask ourselves this question,” says Dietz. “If we can’t protect these federal public lands that are some of the last of our country’s wild, ecologically intact and unroaded forests — that also provide habitat for the majority of our most vulnerable wildlife species — what can we protect?”
Move or Change: How Plants and Animals Are Trying to Survive a Warming World
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
Thor Hanson’s new book explains the biology behind climate change and why some species may be better able to survive a quickly changing planet.
Fisher rewilding: How Washington state is restoring a native carnivore
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
So until we fully understand ecosystems, the best approach is what Aldo Leopold suggested: Let’s just make sure we keep all the parts when we’re tinkering with them.
How an Indigenous Scientist Studies Global Change
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
Dr. Danielle Ignace has found a way to unify her Native American and Western science identities to better understand big ecosystem changes.
‘The Story of Our Lifetime and Our Planet’ — Environmental Journalism in Troubled Times
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
But I feel like this story is really the story of our lifetime and our planet. It’s the story that crosses every boundary that we humans have artificially put upon the world. Anybody who can be engaged in dealing with it, on any level, should do that. And so, being a journalist, I feel it’s my responsibility to tell these stories.
How One Utah Community Fought the Fracking Industry — and Won
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
Even though economics played a role in halting the project, Dean Baker, a Kanab resident and opponent of the project, believes community efforts were important, too.
Drones, Algae and Fish Ears: What We’re Learning Before the World’s Largest Dam-removal Project — and What We Could Miss
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
The Klamath is a river in peril, plagued by dangerously poor water quality and collapsing salmon populations. That could start to change as early as 2022, when four dams are likely come down on the river — the biggest dam-removal and river-restoration project in history. Dam removal is expected to help solve many, but not all, of the river’s challenges, and understanding the change that does happen is crucial to planning the next steps for improving the river’s health.
Fighting Water Privatization with ‘Blue Communities’
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
A Blue Community is an act of hope. Instead of being against the many threats to water, a Blue Community offers a vision for the future based on the belief that water is a human right and a public trust. It also tackles the growing crisis of plastic pollution by committing a municipality (or university or place to worship, etc.) to phasing out bottled water on its premises.