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Latest top headlines • 2 July 2026
An appeals court has reversed a lower court order that halted Trump's censorship campaign in NPs, clearing the way for it to resume. https://buff.ly/TC6E99z
The current heat wave in parts of Europe is the worst ever recorded, and would not be possible without the effects of climate change, scientists with World Weather Attribution said. https://buff.ly/BBmlcvK
Reversing decades of best practice, Trump is going back to full suppression of all wildfires, no matter the origin or potential benefits. https://buff.ly/g8EuzyD
Critics are blasting the announcement that Trump and Burgum will attend the grand opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library tomorrow, calling it hypocritical in the extreme. https://buff.ly/A1t8FOl
Some environmental groups are demanding an accounting of the damage done to the Everglades by the now-closing "Alligator Alcatraz" migrant detention camp. https://buff.ly/Bmg9Ka4
Protests in Albania over plans for a Trump-linked resort in a protected area have become a full-blown phenomenon, picking up the nickname "Flamingo Revolution." https://buff.ly/pIESzO8
The West African island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe has formally designated its first two protected sites off its coast. https://buff.ly/kJiopzo
Trump is targeting the California Coastal Commission with an investigation into what it called the state agency's "environmental extremism." https://buff.ly/n1yFzb2
Former USNPS rangers held a teach-in on Juneteenth at Harpers Ferry NHP to present an exhibit containing the names of hundreds of enslaved people that had been canceled by the Trump censorship campaign. https://buff.ly/df2jjM4
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The first-ever biography of our namesake — the visionary who revolutionized management of America‘s national parks
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