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Fire-driven degradation of the Amazon reaches two-decade peak
2024 was the worst year for Amazonian deforestation and degradation in 20 years
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The environmental effects of roads in wilderness
Roads promote erosion, alter hydrology, open access to invasives, and have other troubling effects on the environment
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The Green Dispatch year in review
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Tires: a big problem getting bigger
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New evidence links pesticides with declining monarch populations
Aug 29, 2025
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Carbon output from tourism increases
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In touch: San Diego sunflower
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The global criminalization of climate and environmental protest
Repression of climate and environmental activism is no longer restricted to the Global South
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Sustainable balconies
City dwellers find ways of making their apartments and condos more sustainable with solar panels and small gardens
Dec 19, 2025
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The Trump administration’s war on information
Disinformation, misinformation, and now even un-information
Dec 12, 2025
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Data centers and climate change push drive to recycle wastewater
We will need more water as climate change threatens water supplies.
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Food good; food packaging, not so much
Chemicals from packaging can migrate to foods
Nov 28, 2025
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More science on the regenerative powers of wildfire
Fire is good for birds, frogs, even spiders
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From the archives: San Diego Canyonlands
Neighborhood groups conserve and restore nature in urban canyons
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