Camilla Price

A road runs through it - The Boston Globe America’s wild lands are already home to vast networks of paved and dirt roads. Now the Trump administration is about to expand their reach.

"Today the consequences of excessive roadbuilding are perfectly foreseeable; it’s the wisdom that remains scarce."

For @bostonglobe.com's Wild Issue, I wrote about Trump's plan to rescind USFS's Roadless Rule, which — spoiler — is a terrible idea. #roadecology

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/04/o...

Case in point: My mom loved this one!

EPA tells some scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.

#EPA Tells Some Scientists To Stop Publishing Studies, Employees Say

Amudalat Ajasa and @hannahnatanson.bsky.social report for @washingtonpost.com

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A view of the Bitterroot Mountains: a blue lake with high mountains around it and many green evergreen trees

Stop the repeal of the Roadless Rule protecting 58 million acres of U.S. National Forest. A major slice of wilderness is at risk of mining, logging and road construction.

Send your comments by Sept. 19! yellowstonetoyukon.nationbuilder.com/protectroadl...

How bison boost the nitrogen cycle—and create healthier plants The large herbivores stimulate plant growth by cycling carbon and nitrogen in the soils of Yellowstone National Park, showing benefits of free-roaming wildlife

What's the best fertilizer? Turns out it's a healthy ecosystem with “just the animals and plants doing their thing.” Super cool finding about how bison boost the nitrogen cycle, by Christine Peterson for @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/environment/...

Former WWII Internment Camp Turned Into Immigrant Detention Center Sparks Outrage From Activists "It is inconceivable that the United States is once again building concentration camps, denying the lessons learned 80 years ago," Ann Burroughs said.

They are literally reusing the old concentration camps! This is indefensible.

www.huffpost.com/entry/former...

A rusty-patched bumblebee atop a purple and green flower.

Some good news: Last week, a federal judge ordered less reliance on pesticide spraying on millions of acres of Western rangelands — rather than a “spray first, ask questions later” approach.

More details: biodiv.us/45BMue9

Happy to be interviewed by Dr. Stephanie Manka, the "Fancy Scientist," about my journey to graduate school at CSU! #ecology #NSF #SciComm

US Supreme Court lets Trump cut diversity-related NIH grants The U.S. Supreme Court let President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday proceed with sweeping cuts to National Institutes of Health grants for research related to racial minorities or LGBT people, part of his crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and transgender identity.

There is no solace for NIH funded researchers in this Supreme Court decision. Grants that were ripped away on dubious grounds, restored by a reasonable judge are now again terminated by an out-of-control Supreme Court. Labs will shutter, people will lose jobs. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

A guy out in the desert scrub who looks like Napoleon Dynamite uses a jeans-wrapped pole with a hiking boot on the bottom to "step" on a rattlesnake.

Hahaha, I love this photo of a snake nerd researcher from the Phoenix Herpetological Society using a fake leg to step on rattlesnakes & see how likely they are to bite. He "stepped" on 175 of them, and was bitten by only SIX. Snakes desperately want to just get away! 🐍🧪

www.npr.org/2024/05/17/1...

UN plastic treaty negotiations end in failure, again Representatives from 184 countries recently gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, to tackle the growing plastic crisis. The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meeting (INC 5.2) went into overtime but…

Representatives from 184 countries recently gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, to tackle the growing plastic crisis.

The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meeting (INC 5.2) went into overtime but failed to produce an agreement.

Interior Department Targets Wind Developers Using Bird Protection Law A new letter sent Friday asks for reams of documentation on developers’ compliance with the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.

Scoop: The Trump administration on Friday sent letters to wind energy developers indicating a crackdown under bird protection laws is imminent

They’re targeting wind projects using the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, with six-figure fines and jail time for violations

Via @heatmap.news

Save This Species Template • The Revelator

Contribute to our "Save This Species" feature. Do you work with, advocate for, or live near an endangered species? We want to hear from you! therevelator.org/save-this-sp...

Four CDC buildings shot up. Employees under lockdown and in fear for hours. Public health is physically under attack, and the silence from the administration is deafening.

My first conference ever was at IPAM as an undergrad, bringing me into scientific research.

When I branched out into new topics, my first conference as new faculty was also at IPAM.

My R35 was suspended. A lot of personal feelings, but more I worry for the future of the country.

hey! I've got an extra copy of @bengoldfarb.bsky.social's CROSSINGS, an important book to understand the influence of roads on wildlife & what we can do about it. Interested? Like/reskeet & I'll randomly pick someone on Friday Aug 8 2025, & mail to the winner for free. US addresses only. #booksky 🌍

Corporation for Public Broadcasting, funder of NPR and PBS, says it will shut down after Congress cut money The announcement comes less than a month after Congress passed a package of spending cuts, which included stripping $1.1 billion in funding.

Devastating.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker

It’s #GlobalTigerDay! Tigers are one of the world’s most iconic wildlife species. Did you know they have been known to reach up to 20 years of age in the wild? Tell us your favorite tiger fact below👇

EPA looks to overturn the scientific reason for climate regulations The move is guaranteed to spark litigation.

Our take: EPA cancels scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human health and welfare."By revoking this key scientific finding Trump is putting fealty to Big Oil over sound science and people's health.Dan Becker @biologicaldiversity.org @bengeman.bsky.social‬ www.axios.com/2025/07/29/e...

Trump admin proposes to revoke EPA’s ability to make rules about climate pollution | CNN If successful, the repeal could strip away the federal government’s most powerful way to control the country’s planet-warming pollution and fight climate change.

We knew this was coming, but... *sigh*

Trump admin proposes to revoke EPA’s ability to make rules about climate pollution | CNN www.cnn.com/2025/07/29/c...

That ‘fish’ on the menu? In Brazil’s schools and prisons, it’s often shark Brazil, the world’s top importer of shark meat, is feeding much of it to preschoolers, hospital patients, military staff, public workers and more via government procurements, Mongabay has found. This ...

In Brazil’s schools & prisons, shark is often on the menu

That's not great for public health

An investigation by @philjaco.bsky.social @bykarlamendes.bsky.social & @kuangkeng.bsky.social for @mongabay.com reveals *thousands of tons* of mercury laden, possibly endangered #sharks & rays, are served:

World’s smallest snake rediscovered in Barbados after 20-year absence “I was making a joke and in my head I said, ‘I smell a threadsnake,'” Justin Springer, Caribbean program officer for the NGO Re:wild, recalled. “I just had a feeling, but I couldn’t be sure because…

Scientists rediscovered the world’s smallest snake, the Barbados threadsnake, which had been missing from scientific observation for 20 years.

The tiny blind snake required microscopic examination to distinguish it from an invasive look-alike species before being confirmed & returned to the wild.

Underwater image of a sea lion hunting salema fish in the Galapagos Marine Reserve.

Why do some say marine protected areas are just “paper parks”? And are industrial fishers actually staying out of these no-fishing zones?

New in @science.org: We used AI + satellite radar to find out. doi.org/10.1126/scie...

#ScienceResearch #OceanConservation #OceanTransparency #30x30 #Fisheries

The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...

This is who Trump shipped to a Salvadoran dungeon:

An event planner
A coal miner
An Uber driver
Tortilla maker
Barber
DoorDashers
Soccer coaches
Furniture-maker
Car washers
Taxi drivers
HVAC techs
Auto parts worker
Tire plant worker

and 240 more...

projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

Image is of cars stuck in traffic on a three-lane highway.

Bad news for the climate: The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to roll back tailpipe pollution standards and rescind the landmark scientific finding that planet-heating pollution harms public health and welfare, which is a foundation of federal climate action.

More: biodiv.us/4kZuYF5

Come ON. The federal level is already gutting infrastructure- let's not pile on.

Really excited about our new pub on how health (of people, animals, and ecosystems) can affect, and are affected by, human-wildlife interactions

tinyurl.com/OneHealthHWIs

In the BioScience One Health collection @aibsbiology.bsky.social 🧪

#humanwildlifeconflict #onehealth #urbanwildlife

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After 7 Decades of Measurements From a Peak in Hawaii, Trump’s Budget Would End Them

Trump is closing all four climate observatory stations in Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, and Antartica. Because you can't have high CO2 levels if you don't *measure* CO2 levels.

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Automakers Are Canceling Plans for New EVs. Here’s a List of What’s Been Killed So Far Shifts in economic policy and manufacturing have led major automakers to cancel upcoming electric vehicle launches in the US.

Carmakers announce EV plans loudly, cancel them quietly: