Published by the World Wildlife Fund By all accounts, Glenn Pritchard and Mia Isaacs should be rivals. They each own a seafood processing plant and exporting company in The Bahamas, and both stake a claim to the lucrative spiny lobster business. Their products reach restaurants at home and massive markets in North America, Europe, and Asia. […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Efforts to save the Vaquita Marina continue, Lake Poopó is gone for good, Colombia to add climate change mitigation to constitution To get the weekly Latin America Green News blog delivered directly to your email, subscribe here. July 7 – July 13, 2016 Mexico’s Ambassador to the United States, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Texas Central Railway plans on running trains similar to the Tokaido Shinkansen Series N700 (shown here) between Dallas and Houston. Wally Gobetz/Flickr Two guys walk into a bar…and go on to create Southwest Airlines. According to this durable snippet of too-good-to-fact-check corporate lore, the company’s founders drew a […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Co-Authored with Jessica Korsh, NRDC Stanback Fellow Energy and air pollution Abhiyant Tiwari The International Energy Agency’s recent report estimates that 6.5 million deaths a year are linked to air pollution. The source of this pollution? Energy—its production and use. India is one of the countries at greatest […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Crowdfunding campaign keeps New Zealand beach out of private hands – Awaroa Beach, on the country’s South Island, will be given to the public after almost 40,000 people collectively donated $1.7 million to […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The post co-authored with Bhaskar Deol After eight years of heated deliberations, countries are finally coming close to an agreement to phase down the super-potent heat-trapping chemicals called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) under the Montreal Protocol. Talks towards an HFC deal resume next week in Vienna, and expectations are rising. […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund India Green News is a selection of news highlights about environment and energy issues in India. From June 28 – July, 8 2016Compiled by Jessica Korsh Climate Change Study: Climate Change Warming Asian Waters, Altering Monsoon Each year as temperatures rise across India, farmers look to the sky […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund In a far-reaching move, the Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy recently published draft National Occupational Standards and Qualifications Packs on Solar Skill Development Courses. Effective implementation of these standards has the potential to ramp up the skills required to achieve India’s renewable energy goals and help […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Just beyond the remote mountain village of Yangma in the high Himalayas of eastern Nepal, Nepali conservationists fitted a female snow leopard with a GPS collar. The collar will allow scientists to track this snow leopard’s movements daily for the next year, which will help us learn more about these […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund India Green News is a selection of news highlights about environment and energy issues in India June 21, 2016 – June 28, 2016Compiled by Jessica Korsh Climate Change The Social Consequences of India’s Heat Waves Spell Doom for the Working Poor Deaths due to heat waves in India […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund July 6 is National Fried Chicken Day. Along with gems like National Sunglasses Day, Toasted Marshmallow Day, and Fruitcake Toss Day, you could say this falls into the same category as other silly, made-up holidays. But this year, instead of using this moment as a marketing gimmick, KFC—the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund (C) Hawaii Saving Species Both New York and California – the two largest ivory markets in the country – enacted ivory bans in the past two years. And Thursday, Hawaii officially joined them when Governor Ige signed Senate Bill 2647 (now Act 125), which bans the vast majority of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Co-authored by Jessica Korsh As the health impacts of climate change become more and more evident on a daily basis, several dozen leading researchers from public health and climate science gathered at the Health and Climate Colloquium 2016, June 8-10th. Poster at Colloquim Kim Knowlton The three-day Colloquium, […]
Published by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Sea Shepherd Shuts Down Entire Illegal Driftnet Fleet File – The Fu Yuan Yu 076. Photo: Tim WattersLos Angeles, CA. -June 29, 2016, Operation Driftnet a campaign launched by Sea Shepherd Global to expose, confront and shut down illegal fishing operations on the world’s oceans – has successfully ended the […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund We’re all quick to recognize the beauty of elephants roaming through Africa and Asia, the tigers traversing Southeast Asia and the far reaches of Russia and China, and the charismatic gorillas of the Congo basin. But the United States also hosts an abundance of beautiful, iconic animals that make our […]
Published by the Department of the Interior Secretary Jewell to Deliver Remarks at the National Congress of American Indians Mid-Year Conference Read the full article at: https://www.doi.gov/mediaadvisories/secretary-jewell-deliver-keynote-remarks-national-congress-american-indians-mid-0
BEIJING (Reuters) – The mayor of a city in central China made a rare public address calling for calm after thousands of people protested against a waste incineration project over fears it would damage the environment and residents’ health. Read the full article at: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/environment/~3/pzNkqrAKKfc/us-china-protests-idUSKCN0ZD0HU
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Elephants have been hit hard by a global poaching epidemic that’s emptying the planet of an array of wildlife. As many as 30,000 elephants are killed for their ivory each year. This senseless slaughter feeds a lucrative, global black market for ivory, which endangers the survival of entire elephant populations […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Over 40 representatives from nine of 12 snow leopard range countries gathered in Kathmandu, Nepal, in April 2016 for a workshop on climate smart conservation planning at the landscape level to protect the iconic snow leopard and its habitat. The workshop focused on building capacity for landscape level planning for […]
Published by the Environmental News Service BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 11, 2016 (ENS) – Indian and international environmental groups are taking Danish container ship giant Maersk to task for considering flagging its end-of-life vessels out of Danish or any other European registry to circumvent the European Ship Recycling Regulation and break the ships in India. Read […]