Thunder Valley CDC will release 50 bison across 40,000 acres in Badlands National Park on Oct. 6, restoring native prairie ecology and Lakota stewardship.

The owners of England Airpark in Alexandria, Louisiana, have signed an agreement with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to open a 528-bed child and family detention centre on its grounds, designed to provide short-term accommodation for rapid deportations. However, families are increasingly detained for longer under the Trump administration – sometimes for several months to over a year – meaning the centre will likely be ill-equipped to house its vulnerable occupants for the duration of their stay. It's already a human rights violation to detain children for immigration purposes, but this centre also poses a serious threat to their health. A former military air base, the site is heavily contaminated with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), with groundwater concentrations 575,000 times higher than the federal limit for drinking water. Any child housed at this centre will therefore be exposed to toxic chemicals linked to developmental problems, behavioural issues, and painful, life-long conditions like inflammatory bowel disease. Adding to the danger, future operator LaSalle Corrections has a long history of violently abusing those held at their facilities. Guards at other sites have deliberately deprived detainees of power and water, pepper-sprayed entire dorms, and meted out deadly beatings...

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The Trump administration just released its plan to undo the landmark 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule and strip protections from nearly 45 million acres of wild, national forest and 70,000 miles o...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

Scientists say global heating was a destabilising factor in collapse of 200,000 sq metre glacier in August Climate breakdown probably weakened the glacier that collapsed causing catastrophic floods and killing hundreds of people in Nepal and Tibet last month, the first scientific study of the disaster has found. Researchers identified unusually warm conditions before the glacier’s collapse, which sent an avalanche of 110m cubic metres (3,885 cu ft) of snow and ice into the valley below. This triggered flash floods on an almost unprecedented scale, hitting communities downstream without warning. Continue reading...