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Jake Spring

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Climate & Environment Reporter for @washingtonpost. Send me tips on Signal at jspring.99 Ex-Reuters in Brazil/China Host of @foreignpod.
Washington, D.C. foreignpod.podbean.com Joined February 2008
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🧵 If reforestation could work anywhere, it's in Brazil's Amazon rainforest. I followed two reforestation projects for 3+ years to find out why it's so hard. Threats at gunpoint, botanical mysteries, here's what I found. 1/

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www.reuters.com Replanting the Amazon could slow global warming. Here’s why it’s hard Restoring Brazil’s rainforest has largely fallen to nonprofits. They're battling illegal land-grabbers, tight budgets, botanical mysteries – and the clock.
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Breaking: Trump administration regulatory change allows killing of species threatened with extinction washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
www.washingtonpost.com Trump administration allows killing of species threatened with extinction Regulatory changes to reinterpret the Endangered Species Act also demand that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service consider the economic toll of habitat protection.
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The National Park Service swapped a slavery exhibit "under the cover of darkness" last night at Philadelphia’s Independence Park, to a version that advocates say softens the depiction of slavery and George Washington as a slave owner washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
www.washingtonpost.com Slavery exhibit swapped overnight at Philadelphia’s Independence Park The National Park Service replaced panels that discussed the horrors of slavery and George Washington’s ownership of enslaved people.
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Scoop: Park Service orders removal of ‘woke’ quotes at Boston’s Bunker Hill monument washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
www.washingtonpost.com Park Service orders removal of ‘woke’ quotes at Boston’s Bunker Hill monument A visitor complaint prompted a review of quotes that are anti-war, pro-immigrant or highlighted American hypocrisy on slavery ahead of the monument’s 251st anniversary celebration.