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At the U.N. clime conference, roughly 100 governments have signed a pledge to end deforestation by 2030. And in the U.K., efforts are already underway to reforest large parts of the country.

President Bush marks Earth Day with a visit to the Great Smoky Mountains -- America's most-visited national park and one of its most polluted. The president will use the park as a backdrop for promoting policies he says will result in cleaner air and water. Environmentalists say he is actually weakening regulations.

The Russian government approves the Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty that seeks cuts in "greenhouse gas" emissions in order to slow global warming. The measure is now expected to be ratified by Duma, the Russian parliament. Hear NPR's Lawrence Sheets.

Federal oil and gas drilling lease sales on public land resumed in June — the first since President Biden took office. His administration had paused quarterly sales because of environmental concerns.

To environmentalists, the National Environmental Policy Act is sacred. NEPA has given them the power to halt or amend hundreds of federal projects. Now, as NPR's Allison Aubrey reports, they're arguing that the Bush administration is undermining the statute to speed up oil and gas exploration in areas like Utah's red-rock country.

Goldman Environmental Prize winner Silas Siakor's reports on illegal logging in Liberia helped persuade the U.N. Security Council to ban Liberian timber exports. That stripped warlords of key income and led to political change. Siakor looks back... and forward.

$1.6 million dollars will help them to deal with the impacts of climate change.

Forty years after Warren County, N.C., residents marched to a landfill to try to stop dump trucks, the EPA is creating an office for advancing environmental justice. (Aired on ATC on Oct. 3, 2022.)

Forty years after Warren County, N.C., residents marched to a landfill to try to stop dump trucks, the EPA is creating a new office charged with advancing environmental justice.

A beekeeper was cleaning wax worms out of her hives, and putting them in a plastic bag when she realized the worms were chewing through the plastic and chemically breaking it down.