Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Brazil just ratified the Paris Agreement – In order for the landmark deal to enter into force, 55 countries representing 55 percent of global emissions must ratify it. Not counting Brazil, the totals […]
Published by the Environmental News Service BRASILIA, Brazil, September 12, 2016 (ENS) – Brazil’s new president, Michel Temer, today ratified his country’s adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement, which sets greenhouse gas emissions targets to stop the global temperature from rising beyond 2°C above pre-industrial levels by 2100. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/09/12/brazil-ratifies-paris-climate-agreement/
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Dakota Access pipeline needs to be stopped — and the broken system that allowed it to get this far must be fixed. Sacred Stone Camp near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Many have gathered since April 2016. Nima Taradji/Polaris Some environmental victories come in the form of a single, decisive moment: […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Drilling in the Arctic Ocean makes no sense. The signs are everywhere. Last week Russia announced a moratorium on drilling in its Arctic waters, our colleagues at the World Wildlife Fund report. At the same time, Norway’s Eni ran smack into the dangerous realities facing every company that’s […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The city was flooded in 2005, and again four years later. And again in December. In the northwest corner of England, global warming is not a distant threat. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/science/carlisle-england-climate-change-flooding.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund California is once again leading the way, moving closer to establishing the nation’s first energy efficiency standards for computers and monitors with today’s latest proposal issued by the California Energy Commission (CEC). This new draft follows two earlier proposals and opens up a 45-day comment period, the last […]
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. […]