Inside a Trump-linked plan to turn a communist-era military base into a luxe resort
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Two towns, same gas fields, very different experiences
In Queensland’s “energy capital”, two towns on either side of the same gas fields are feeling the effects very differently.
Whitsunday home owners in the dark over cable-car project
Approvals for the 1.8-kilometre Skyway in Airlie Beach are set to be fast-tracked, but locals say consultation with the developer has been limited.
Ecologist worried damaged boat could pollute sensitive rock platform
Excavators have been used to salvage a vessel that ran aground at Flat Rock just north of Ballina, potentially disrupting the intertidal ecosystem in the area.
The Trump administration is trying to kill a rule that protects millions of acres of national forests | Charles F Sams III
The bipartisan Roadless Rule is under fire. It’s just one way Trump could make our public lands unrecognizable
Modern roads in the United States will last for decades. And yet the damage they cause in our national forests is immediate.
Since 2001, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule has protected more than 58m acres of national forests from development, barring road construction and timber harvests. The policy came to be with huge bipartisan support; almost 2 million people submitted comments on it, the majority of whom championed the protections.
Charles F Sams III (Cayuse and Walla Walla) was director of the National Park Service from 2021 to 2025. He is now director of Indigenous programs at the Yale Center for Environmental Justice