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Episode for October 24, 2025

Conservationists used fire to manage habitat in an Allegheny County meadow. The practice goes back centuries to Indigenous peoples. High-pressure water used in a maintenance procedure on a valve led to a fatal explosion in August at U.S. Steel’s Clairton…

Interior is failing to conserve national parks

Former National Park Service leaders Jonathan and Destry Jarvis argue that Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s decision to keep national parks open without staff during the federal shutdown violates the agency’s legal mandate to preserve park resources “unimpaired” for future generations.

Forest Declaration Assessment reveals a forest paradox

The world’s forests tell two stories at once. Even as chainsaws advance, new trees are rising in their wake. More than 11 million hectares of tropical moist forest—an area roughly the size of Cuba—were in some stage of natural regrowth between…