"Why These Chimps Have Been At War For 8 Years"
"The long-running conflict in a formerly unified community, the second ever observed, adds to Jane Goodall’s studies about a different chimp war in the 1970s."
Source: National Geographic, 04/13/2026
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"Deer Test Positive For Chronic Wasting Disease At Catoctin Mountain Park"
"Two deer tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease at Catoctin Mountain Park in Maryland during recent white-tailed deer reduction operations and subsequent disease sampling. This is the first CWD-positive detection at Catoctin Mountain Park."
Source: National Parks Traveler, 04/13/2026
Communities Wait On Billions In Disaster Funds From Trump Administration
"Placerville, Calif., bears all the markers of a community at risk of a wildfire. The city's rolling hillsides are dense with brush, which dries out during the hot summers. Older homes made of wood, which are more prone to igniting, are dotted throughout."
Source: NPR, 04/13/2026
"Plastic Pollution Is Bad Enough. Burning It Can Be Even Worse."
"In places like Indonesia, plastic refuse is often burned in unregulated low-tech furnaces that pose grave health risks."
Source: Undark, 04/13/2026
AI Boom Derailed Clean-Air Push In One Of America's Most Polluted Cities
"Trump administration rolled back clean-air rules to support AI-driven electricity demand. St. Louis faces poor air quality and high health costs as coal plants remain online."
Source: Reuters, 04/13/2026
"EPA Sets ‘No Surprises’ Science Policy, Reassigns Researchers"
"The Trump administration is tightening its grip over EPA’s scientific enterprise as it prepares to relocate employees from its once esteemed research arm."
Source: E&E News, 04/13/2026
"A Critical Moment For The Nuclear Safety Policeman"
"The Institute of Nuclear Power Operations is struggling to bring a new wave of nuclear startups into their system." "Several nuclear power startups are balking at joining the industry’s voluntary regulatory body in what could become a major shakeup to plant safety oversight."
Source: E&E News, 04/13/2026
New Threatened Landscapes Report Will Focus On Erasure Of American History
"The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), a national Washington, D.C.-based education and advocacy organization, announced “Erasing American History” as the subject of its annual thematic Landslide report about threatened landscapes and landscape features and issued a call for nominations. As the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence approaches, the United States is simultaneously also witnessing the erasure of irreplaceable cultural resources that reflect and interpret our shared history."
Source: National Parks Traveler, 04/13/2026
Forecasters Predict Slightly Below-Average 2026 Atlantic Hurricane Season
"Colorado State University’s hurricane forecasting team is expecting El Niño to bring a slightly below-average season with 13 named storms, six hurricanes, and two major hurricanes."
Source: Yale Climate Connections, 04/13/2026
"How Lee Zeldin Shifted the Mission — And the Message — of the E.P.A."
The job of the E.P.A. chief is to protect human health by safeguarding “the air we breathe, the water we drink and land that grows our food,” as the agency’s founding charter puts it, and most administrators have talked about their work in those terms. Mr. Zeldin, though, speaks more about supporting industry and exporting fossil fuels than about protecting the environment."
Source: NYTimes, 04/13/2026
