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The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Army announced a proposal to further define, and scale back, the number of waterways and wetlands protected by the federal government under the Clean Water Act, a bedrock environmental law.

Northern bog turtles have federal protection, but their southern counterparts don’t. To begin to save the threatened species, someone had to rebuild their home. In 2023, Parr and his colleagues at the Nature Conservancy began creating a fen—a type of wetland that is closely related to a bog.

A broad cross-section of Americans voiced their support for protecting public lands and preserving the Public Lands Rule as the Trump administration's 60-day public comment period to rescind the rule closed today. Despite the administration's failure to host a single public meeting or conduct community outreach, the public raised their collective voice in defense of public lands.

In the most comprehensive tracking study of monarch butterfly migration ever conducted, researchers tracked individual monarchs as they travelled to their overwintering sites in Mexico. The study utilized revolutionary ultralight transmitters and an innovative network that turns millions of everyday devices into wildlife tracking stations.

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