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Yes, there is much work to do, and nothing is more worth doing than trying to save this place. But if in my rushed, dogged efforts I became distracted from Tahlequah’s call, then I need to ask what I’m doing.

In his second term, Trump has signaled he would attack Joe Biden’s climate policies any way he can, increase fossil fuel production, and stymie the expansion of renewable energy. Yet he may not be as successful as he hopes, because states will once again take action.

From a practical standpoint, however, the extraordinary impacts the planet has witnessed – including extreme weather, heat waves, wildfires, coral bleaching and ecosystem destruction – point to a need to swiftly reduce carbon dioxide emissions to limit ocean warming, regardless of whether this is a continuation of an ongoing trend or an acceleration.

Verbena Fields in Northern California is an emerging model of what decolonizing land via Traditional Ecological Knowledge can look like, supported by partnerships between Native and non-Native communities.

Michael Swanwick’s 1985 novel In the Drift takes place in an alternate reality in which the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident—rather than remaining a partial meltdown with minimal environmental impact, as in reality—escalated into a full-scale disaster that rendered much of the United States uninhabitable.

The kind of weather whiplash that fueled the fires is only becoming more common, and not just in the United States. A new analysis in the peer-reviewed academic journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment has found that rapid shifts between heavy rain and drought (and vice versa) are becoming more intense — and the trend is unfolding faster than climate models have projected.

Interior handles natural resources and domestic affairs – primarily managing 480 million acres (200 million hectares) of federal lands and developing the assets that they hold. Many of these lands are officially open for multiple uses, including energy development, mining, logging, livestock grazing and recreation.

We agree with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that monarchs have great value as conservation icons, and that they help build public interest in insects. Our concern is that the public could be encouraged to ignore scientific findings and take actions that may harm these incredible and inspiring insects.