Matthew Brown, Author at Greenfield Recorder

This November 2018 image provided by NASA shows flames and smoke from the Camp Fire that erupted 90 miles (140 kilometers) north of Sacramento, Calif. Increasingly intense wildfires that have scorched forests from California to Australia are stoking worry about long-term health impacts from smoke exposure in affected cities and towns. (NASA via AP)

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As wildfires worsen, smoke spreads, stokes health worries

by Matthew Brown Associated PressJanuary 9, 2020

PARADISE, Calif. — First came the flames, a raging firestorm propelled by 50 mph (80 kph) wind gusts that incinerated Kelsey Norton’s house and killed 85 people in her community.Then came the smoke — not just from the forest but also from some 14,000…

A female red wolf emerges from her den sheltering newborn pups at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, N.C., on Monday, May 13, 2019. The Associated Press found that over the last two decades, more than half of Mexican wolf deaths and about one in four red wolf deaths resulted from gunshots or were otherwise deemed illegal. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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Illegal killings, political opposition hobble wolf recovery

by Jonathan Drew Associated Press, Susan Montoya Bryan Associated Press, and Matthew Brown Associated PressMay 23, 2019

In this Oct. 8, 2018 photo, U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announces a ban on mining claims north of Yellowstone National Park as K.C. Walsh, left, president of Simms Fishing Products, listens near Emigrant, Mont. The Trump administration is considering using West Coast military bases or other federal properties as transit points for shipments of U.S. coal and natural gas to Asia as officials seek to bolster the domestic energy industry and circumvent environmental opposition to...

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US wants to use West Coast military bases for coal exports

by Matthew Brown Associated PressOctober 15, 2018

A wolverine is photographed by a remote camera in the Tahoe National Forest near Truckee, Calif. Changes proposed by the Trump administration to the U.S. government's endangered species program would end automatic protections for species listed as threatened, which advocates say could harm the wolverine.

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Trump aims to end automatic protections for some species

by Matthew Brown Associated PressJuly 19, 2018

FILE - In this May 28, 2013, file photo, a hiker walks on a rock formation known as The Wave in the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in Arizona. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said he's recommending that none of 27 national monuments carved from wilderness and ocean and under review by the Trump administration be eliminated, including the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. (AP Photo/Brian Witte, File)

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Interior chief recommends changes on some protected lands

by Matthew Brown Associated Press, and Brady McCombs Associated PressAugust 25, 2017

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 14, 2015, file photo, Indian women use bare hands to pick reusable pieces from heaps of used coal discarded by a carbon factory in Gauhati, India. The world’s biggest coal users - China, the United States and India - have boosted coal mining in 2017, in an abrupt departure from last year’s record global decline for the heavily polluting fuel and a setback to efforts to rein in climate change emissions. (AP Photo/ Anupam Nath, File)

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Coal on the rise in China, US, India after major 2016 drop

by Matthew Brown Associated Press, and Katy Daigle Associated PressJune 26, 2017