Bipartisan support for the act highlights the outdoor industry’s growing political clout, but questions remain about its cultural and environmental impact.
People weren’t the only ones fleeing fast-moving flames and hot embers as deadly wildfires burned down entire neighborhoods in Los Angeles beginning on Tuesday night and ongoing as of publication.
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Using detailed, vernacular sentences that hew closely to her characters’ perspectives, The Crazies unravels a NIMBY phenomenon that is happening across the West as the U.S. pushes to decarbonize, ...
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At Sequoia National Park in California, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees cover trees in structure wrap to protect them from fires in late September, 2021. Credit: Gary Kazanjian/AP Photo ...
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Shaun Griswold, a citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna with Jemez and Zuni ancestry, gives everyone a lot to consider in this Fourth of July perspective piece about the meaning of truth and what it’s ...
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In June 1979, President Jimmy Carter announces his new solar energy policy while standing in front of solar panels placed on West Wing roof of the White House. Credit: Glasshouse Images/Alamy ...