Trump’s Meeting With Al Gore Gives Environmental Activists Hope

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Even as Donald J. Trump met with Mr. Gore, he continued to court opponents of climate control policies for key government posts. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/us/politics/climate-change-trump-al-gore.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

What Leonard Cohen Can Teach Environmentalists About Fighting Back

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Just 48 hours after the U.S. presidential election, while tens of millions of people around the globe were still trying to process the shocking results, the world received some more distressing news: Popular culture had just lost one of its wisest and most distinctive voices, Leonard Cohen. The […]

Future Energy Jobs Bill: A Path for Illinois to a Bright Clean Energy Economy

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund With a very different federal landscape, and action on clean energy and climate change threatening to stall, the real climate action is going to occur where the rubber hits the road: cities and states. There is already tons of good news in this area, including, after more than […]

NRDC Report: US Clean Energy Transition Irrevocably Underway

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund NRDC’s Fourth Annual Energy Report published today brings optimistic news in a moment of uncertainty in the federal government: the nationwide momentum for clean energy is undeniable and irresistible because clean energy now costs less than dirty energy. Our report, Accelerating Into a Clean Energy Future, includes extensive new evidence of […]

Communities come together to restore mangroves

Published by the World Wildlife Fund Mangroves protect and stabilize coastlines – particularly important as climate change brings more extreme storms and increased wave action. They also act as sinks, sequestering 3–5 percent more carbon per unit area than any other forest system. But mangroves are disappearing, cleared for urban and tourism development or felled for […]

California’s Plan for Agricultural Water Savings Falls Short

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund John Martinez Pavliga For months, California’s state agencies have been building a framework to fulfill Governor Brown’s vision of making water conservation a “way of life.” The governor’s executive order in May aimed to bolster California’s climate and drought resilience long-term.   Earlier this week, the agencies finally […]

News Report on Global Temperatures Is Wrong, Scientists Say

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The report, which first appeared in The Daily Mail and Breitbart News, cited incomplete data and drew incorrect conclusions about climate change, according to experts. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/science/global-warming-daily-mail-breitbart.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Trudeau Threatens to Derail Canadian Climate Progress

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund When Canada’s Prime Minister announced his government’s approval of two new tar sands pipelines earlier this week, he repeated his befuddling claim that expanding productions of one of the world’s dirtiest sources of energy was a necessary step in the fight against climate change. Huh? It’s a claim […]

Latin America Green News: 11/19 – 12/1/2016

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund To get the weekly Latin America Green News blog delivered directly to your email, subscribe here. November 19 – December 1 Water Niños bolivianos observan las obras en el sector de Collpani, desde donde se intentará bombear agua para la ciudad de La Paz Agencia EFE Bolivia’s Altiplano region—including […]

Can Noise Pollution Affect the Way Mongooses Sniff Out Their Enemies?

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund smalljude/Flickr Sound is a powerful weapon. Flash-bang grenades can stun and disorient unruly mobs, and loud music is sometimes played to weaken detainees before interrogations. Even innocuous-seeming sounds can drive a person mad if they go on long enough. When the United States invaded Panama in 1989, Manuel […]

Celebrating the biggest conservation wins of 2016

Published by the World Wildlife Fund In the waning days of 2016, it’s important to pause for a moment to celebrate all we’ve accomplished for wildlife, people, and the planet in the past 12 months. Together, we pushed for new regulations to help shut down the illegal elephant ivory trade within our borders and to stop […]

Beyond Just Water: Why We Should All Be Taking a Stance on DAPL

Published by the Yale School of Forestry Last week, newly released data by the Climate Change Institute from the Arctic confirmed that, yet again, winter temperatures in the North Pole have reached unprecedented highs. This year, the temperature is 36 degrees Fahrenheit above the historic average. This… Read the full article at: http://environment.yale.edu/blog/2016/11/beyond-just-water-why-we-should-all-be-taking-a-stance-on-dapl/

Very Cool: Heat Pump Water Heaters Save Energy and Money

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Co-authored by Eric Weiner A new NRDC study shows that water heaters that use high efficiency heat pump technology—the same process that keeps your refrigerator cold—can cut the amount of electricity used to heat water by half or more, saving significant amounts of energy and money on your household […]

Building Smart Cities: Online Systems for Energy Savings in Hyderabad

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Co-authored with Karan Chouksey As the cost and demand for power dramatically rise in south India, Hyderabad and the state of Telangana are turning to energy efficiency as a solution. The cost to purchase power doubled in Telangana from September to this month, raising alarms about energy prices […]

We Will Stand Up for the Ocean–and That Means Standing Up for Science

Published by Ocean Conservancy This post originally appeared on National Geographic’s Ocean Views blog. During this bruising presidential campaign, there was an eerie sense that we had moved into a post-truth world, with fake news circulating on Facebook and the veracity of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump continually called into question. In fact, Oxford Dictionaries just declared “post-truth” its […]

Secretary Jewell, Presidential Senior Advisor Brian Deese to Discuss Climate Change in “Exit Interview” Series at Georgetown University

Published by the Department of the Interior “The Exit Interview” series at Georgetown University features Cabinet Secretaries and senior White House officials and encompasses a wide range of policy topics such as national security and foreign policy, the economy, criminal and social justice, climate change and health care. Read the full article at: https://www.doi.gov/mediaadvisories/secretary-jewell-presidential-senior-advisor-brian-deese-discuss-climate-change-exit

America’s Cities, Stepping Up

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund With Washington becoming more hostile to climate action, the nation’s mayors are volunteering to fill the leadership vacuum. The city of Pittsburgh Rudy Balasko/iStock Within environmental circles, at least, it’s the question that’s on everybody’s mind right now. What kind of progress can we realistically hope to make […]

This year’s bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef was the worst on record

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. This year’s bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef was the worst on record – A new study by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies has confirmed that 2016’s bleaching […]

NYS Leads Again: More Local Action on Climate Change

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund New York’s recently launched $5 million clean energy competition will spur additional renewables, energy efficiency and clean transportation programs and projects in several of New York’s largest cities. This new initiative of the New York Power Authority, the country’s largest public power provider, demonstrates New York’s continued leadership […]

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