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Outgoing administration’s last-minute changes to wildlife protections draw criticism Douglas Main © Photograph by Kiliii Yuyan, National Geographic A view of the central Brooks Range, Alaska, near the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. On January 6, the Trump Administration sold leases to drill for oil in this pristine wilderness area. Over the past four years, wildlife and environmental protections in the United States have been under attack. President Donald Trump’s administration has pursued a campaign of deregulation, undoing or weakening scores of laws and policies th...

“The end is in sight. Effectively deployed testing may be able to ameliorate social distancing until the vaccines arrive …To have several highly effective vaccines for this horrible virus after less than a year is a quite astonishing achievement, among the greatest things that we — by which I mean both humanity in general and molecular biologists in particular — have ever accomplished.” So wrote Rupert Beale of the Francis Crick Institute in the London Review of Books early last month. But before we start celebrating, we should remember that a year ago the possibility that the worl...

Iasked Jacksonites to reflect on the local news stories of 2020 that had the greatest impact on them personally. Susan Marsh, author and 30-year veteran of the U.S. Forest Service, wrote about Bear 399 and her four cubs wandering through the valley: “What really had an impact on me in addition to the bears themselves was how many people in the valley were hypervigilant about keeping them safe when they wandered out of the park. Instead of the usual eco-porn about grizzly bears with teeth bared, we had a mother and her four children being looked after so they can continue to live like bea...

John Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. R. Jamil Jonna is associate editor for communications and production at Monthly Review. Brett Clark is associate editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Utah. The authors thank John Mage, Craig Medlen, and Fred Magdoff for their assistance. The U.S. economy and society at the start of 2021 is more polarized than it has been at any point since the Civil War. The wealthy are awash in a flood of riches, marked by a booming stock market, while the und...

Ecosystem Destruction Fueled the Pandemic. Pollution Has Made It Worse. Ecosystem loss from deforestation and agriculture has caused hundreds of diseases to jump from other animals to humans. Jared Rodriguez / Truthout On December 30, 2019, an urgent email circulated on the internet, in which the Wuhan Municipal Health Committee noted the treatment of multiple patients with “pneumonia of unknown cause.” Since then, researchers have identified antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in blood and spit samples in the United States, France and Italy, suggesting human exposur...