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During a hike in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1995, Don Barger climbed Chilhowee Mountain hoping to gaze across the valley below. All he saw was a wall of gray haze.
The future of the Boundary Waters continues to be a hot topic of debate among Minnesota legislators, as a new bill that would ...
An analysis of data from 1999 through 2023 shows 93% of parks and wilderness areas saw improved air quality on clear days.
Now that U.S. Sen. Tina Smith is not running for re-election, she has introduced legislation this week that "would protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area wilderness (BWCA) from the threat ...
On Monday, dozens of Montanans spoke in opposition to a proposal to back Utah’s attempt to assume control of 18.5 million acres of federal lands. On Tuesday, a resolution on another prominent federal ...
Some of our members reached out, confused after seeing other conservation nonprofits urging support for this bill, even as Wilderness Watch opposed it. News articles covering the EXPLORE Act ...
Residents are furious over a plot to evict a family that has called the forests of an affluent Silicon Valley neighborhood home for more than half a century. The Girouard family - Jeremiah, his ...
From Monday, the regulator will start enforcing the Online Safety Act’s illegal content codes, requiring social media companies to find and remove content such as child sexual abuse material.
Polling conducted for CNN and NBC has laid bare the deep divides within America as Democrats lick their wounds 'in the wilderness' in the wake of the 2024 election. 'While this survey shows a ...
The SAT and ACT are standardized tests that can help students get into colleges and earn scholarships. Although they have similar content, they’re ultimately different in other aspects.
The Carpathians, Nick Thorpe writes in “Walking Europe’s Last Wilderness,” are the “geographical center of Europe.” Their peaks and ridges form the watershed between the Baltic Sea to ...
Bing is the second-most popular search engine around, and these days it actually shows better results than Google. If you use it, here are some of the best tips and tricks you need to know when ...