Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. California adopts ambitious climate change law – This week Governor Jerry Brown signed new legislation that will require the Golden State to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2030. The […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Political polarization on climate change is on the rise in the United States – A new study finds that today’s Republicans are less likely to accept that humans are causing climate change than […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Agency (EPA) has received three White House Presidential GreenGov sustainability awards, including one for helping Long Island communities develop post-Hurricane Sandy climate resiliency strategies. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-awarded-three-greengov-presidential-sustainability-awards
Published by Ocean Conservancy A conversation between Ocean Conservancy’s CEO Andreas Merkl and Nainoa Thompson, president of the Polynesian Voyaging Society and navigator of the iconic Hōkūle‘a, as Hawaiʻi hosts the IUCN World Conservation Congress. With a shared passion for our ocean, Merkl (@AndreasMerkl) and Thompson spoke about experiencing unparalleled beauty on the water, the plague […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund As officials work to safeguard us from the mosquito-borne virus, they must take every precaution to minimize collateral damage. iStock After health officials confirmed four travel-related cases of the dangerous Zika virus in South Carolina’s Dorchester County last month, authorities moved quickly to reduce the risk that mosquitoes might spread the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Last month, the website Water Deeply published an op-ed I wrote about the likely harm to salmon and other endangered species from the California WaterFix project. This op-ed followed a letter that NRDC sent to the Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service regarding major flaws […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Recently, NRDC, Center for Biological Diversity, Great Old Broads for the Wilderness, and the Montana chapter of the Sierra Club filed an administrative protest challenging BLM’s plan to auction off oil and gas resources on approximately 20,000 acres of public land in northern Montana throughout Glacier, Toole, Choteau, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund “Black machine” – Teatro Colosseo, Torino (I),f 2015 NEVERCREW The immediacy of city life can make it all too easy to think of environmental woes as being the problems of faraway places. But two Switzerland-based street artists who call themselves NEVERCREW make humanity’s fraught relationship with nature impossible […]
Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme Speech by Ibrahim Thiaw, deputy chief of UN Environment at the “Defence and Climate Change” international conference in Skhirat, Morocco. Read the full article at: http://www.unep.org/NewsCentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=27085&ArticleID=36260&l=en
Published by the Environmental News Service HANGZHOU, China, September 6, 2016 (ENS) – The Hangzhou G20 communique issued today brings climate change to the center stage of the global agenda and sends a strong signal for all nations to join the Paris Agreement as soon as possible. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/09/06/usa-and-china-formally-join-paris-climate-agreement/
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Gord McKenna/Flickr The future health of the planet depends heavily on one vast ring of trees: the boreal forest, which spans nearly the entire globe just below the Arctic Circle. In addition to being one of the world’s greatest remaining stretches of wilderness, home to many vulnerable species, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Feeding leftovers to livestock could help curb emissions – Around the world, one-third of all food produced for human consumption never gets eaten. Trashed food often winds up in landfills, where it rots […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund While all eyes are rightly focused today on the historic action by the United States and China to formally join the Paris Climate Agreement, it’s also worth noting the two countries’ joint steps to reach another historic global climate deal next month – one that will be the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Today, President Obama stood together with the President of China to announce that both countries have formally joined the Paris Agreement to combat climate change. This historic announcement sends an undeniable message that the world’s two largest economies and emitters are turning their climate change commitments into action. […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Presidents Obama and Xi announced that the U.S. and China have formally joined the Paris Agreement, moving the agreement within reach of entering into force this year. This announcement sends a strong signal that these two countries will continue to act aggressively on climate change through stronger domestic […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund This week, conservation takes center stage as 6,000 global experts dive deep into the issues that will define the physical future of our planet. And with the all the far-reaching impacts of these decisions affecting the long-term sustainability of our planet, it’s a gathering that cannot come soon enough. The […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released a revised and long-awaited proposed minimum efficiency standard for residential natural gas furnaces, which are found in about 40 percent of U.S. homes, making them the most prevalent heating equipment in America. DOE estimates the updated standard will deliver up […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Massive reef found hiding behind Great Barrier Reef – Scientists have known for decades that mysterious geological structures were lurking in the deep waters north of the Great Barrier Reef, and now sea […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This is the first blog in a special three-part series on green finance in China Xinhua On September 4-5, this year’s G20 Summit will be held in Hangzhou, China. Green finance will be one of the major topics of discussion at this meeting, marking the first time that […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Click for larger version Ed Hawkins This story originally appeared on Climate Central. Climate change just got another telling visual courtesy of the famed temperature spiral creator. But rather than a graph, it’s a series of 167 maps. Alone, they each tell the story of whether a year was mostly […]