Juliet Grable

1 month ago | sierraclub.org | Juliet Grable

Brian Geier and his wife, Elizabeth Tobey, are farmers in Harrison County, Indiana, where they grow corn, soybeans, hay, and flowers on their 55 acres. Last year, they added sheep to the operation. Like many producers, the couple has taken advantage of federal conservation programs available through Natural Resources Conservation Service, or NRCS. In 2024, they used grant funding to remove invasive trees and brush that had moved into the forested part of their acreage.

1 month ago | resilience.org | Juliet Grable

Every fall dozens of monarch butterfly enthusiasts deploy to groves on the California coast to tally the orange-and-black insects who spend the winter clustered on tree limbs. In 2024 there were more volunteers than ever, but dreadfully few of the colorful butterflies to count. On Dec. 9 a monarch lover named Saunie Holloway posted numbers from her annual pilgrimage to the Pismo Beach grove on the Western Monarch Advocates Facebook page.

1 month ago | therevelator.org | Juliet Grable

Every fall dozens of monarch butterfly enthusiasts deploy to groves on the California coast to tally the orange-and-black insects who spend the winter clustered on tree limbs. In 2024 there were more volunteers than ever, but dreadfully few of the colorful butterflies to count. On Dec. 9 a monarch lover named Saunie Holloway posted numbers from her annual pilgrimage to the Pismo Beach grove on the Western Monarch Advocates Facebook page.

1 month ago | opb.org | Juliet Grable

Diane Choplin gathers eggs at Bel Avenir Farm, her small operation in east Ashland, Ore. In his drive to slash government spending, President Donald Trump has frozen or terminated millions of dollars in federal agriculture grant contracts. This is leaving farmers, ranchers and landowners in Southern Oregon confused and worried. On a Monday morning in early February, Diane Choplin wheels a bale of hay to a paddock on Bel Avenir, her farm east of Ashland, Oregon.

2 months ago | sierraclub.org | Juliet Grable

Not long after a series of devastating wildfires began ravaging parts of Los Angeles in early January, people were demanding answers: What caused it? Why couldn’t it be stopped? Who, or what, is responsible for why so many lost so much? Those questions soon found their way into the mirror world that is social media and the internet, where a wave of disinformation and misinformation—some of it propagated directly from President Donald Trump and his surrogates—compounded the crisis.