The Trump administration could update the Roadless Rule to permit temporary roads to allow for forest thinning.

The Russian authorities have seized on the crisis in Donetsk to argue that taking over the rest of the region from Ukraine would allow Moscow to restore the water supply.

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Ecuador’s ecological progress is threatened by a series of reforms steamrolled by its young populist president, Daniel Noboa.

The continent is dedicated to research and cooperation, but proposed funding cuts in the Trump administration and actions by other world powers may alter the environment.