Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. The world is close to missing the 1.5-degree target – In December negotiators of the Paris Agreement decided to try to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures. But over […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund If we collectively want to understand our planet’s mounting social and environmental challenges — and how we might solve them — consider Meeta’s story. Meeta is a young mother from India. Back-to-back pregnancies and heavy housework responsibilities took a toll on her health and wellbeing. Noting her declining health, a […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy When the heat index is well over 100 degrees, Washington, D.C. locals will do whatever it takes to stay cool. This summer, the National Building Museum is making it easier than ever to escape the heat—by bringing an icy environment straight to our backyard. Their new exhibit, Icebergs, is a massive installation […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund New York’s counties, cities, towns and villages now have additional support when it comes to advancing clean energy and combating climate change at home. It comes in the form of Clean Energy Communities (CEC), a new program unveiled earlier this week by the New York State Energy Research […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Information is power— at least according to conventional wisdom. But what if we lack access to reliable and scientifically sound information? Around the world, one of the common barriers preventing people from being able to protect their river basins is lack of information. That’s why WWF and the University of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund On July 20, an oil pipeline in Northern Saskatchewan ruptured, eventually leaking as much as 66,000 gallons of heavy crude oil and other chemicals into the North Saskatchewan River. Despite noticing a “pressure anomaly” in the line, pipeline operators failed to shut it down, and the leak continued […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund About 150 miles off Cape Cod, where the continental shelf drops into the pitch-black abyss of the deep Atlantic Ocean, a series of massive undersea canyons plunge thousands of feet, some deeper than the Grand Canyon. Just beyond these canyons, four underwater mountains (or “seamounts”)—the only ones in […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund President Obama has done more than any President to protect Americans and future generations from climate change, but there is more to do. Transportation continues to be a major source of carbon pollution, accounting for about one-third nationally. There are two important ways we can cut pollution from […]
Last year our Plastics Make it Possible® campaign built a tiny house to demonstrate the role plastic building materials play in increasing energy efficiency. We unveiled the house at the California Science Center in LA, where more than 25,000 visitors saw it firsthand. This year, we decided to take a road trip and took the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Ecuador signs Paris agreement, Drones launched to protect Vaquita Marina, General Electric seeks expansion of renewable energy generation To get the weekly Latin America Green News blog delivered directly to your email, subscribe here. July 28 – August 3, 2016 Conservation Mexico’s armed forces have launched a drone operation […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The country’s role in combating global climate change is more important than ever. Guilin, China We got a timely alert on the growing dangers of climate change this week, when scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration teamed up with their counterparts from 61 other nations to report from […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This week marks the one-year anniversary of the announcement of President Obama’s historic Clean Power Plan, our nation’s first-ever limits on carbon pollution from the electric power sector—the single biggest source of climate change-fueling CO2 in America. While there are limits on dangerous emissions like sulfur and mercury from power […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The news on Zika virus in the United States isn’t good at all this week. The outbreak in Puerto Rico is raising huge concerns. There have been over 5,000 cases of locally-transmitted Zika virus reported to the CDC in Puerto Rico, but it’s feared that number is an […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Proving that we’re all still learning about “the birds and the bees,” new research released late last week revealed that the popular class of insecticides known as neonicotinoids or “neonics” reduced live honey bee sperm counts by up to 39%. The study, which is titled “Neonicotinoid insecticides can […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Scientists around the world just gave Earth its yearly checkup and found that our climate’s fever, heavy sweating, and intense thirst have gotten worse. According to the 26th Annual State of the Climate, a peer-reviewed report compiled by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, Earth broke one […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The devastating aftermath of the July 30 flash flood in Ellicott City, MD. This is one of many shops affected on Main St. Forsaken Photos/Flickr On Saturday night, Ellicott City, Maryland, a historic mill town in Howard County just 30 miles north of Washington, DC, was devastated by […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Just as I am dozing off in the back seat, my body starts flopping to the beat of the bumpy road beneath me. I look up and see that our driver has turned off of the asphalt two-lane road and onto a dirt path that’s barely as wide as our […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Rapid-response teams of researchers analyze droughts and other extreme weather events to see if global warming played a role. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/science/looking-quickly-for-the-fingerprints-of-climate-change.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Building on its record of climate leadership, New York cements its position as a national renewable energy leader today with a New York Public Service Commission (PSC) order requiring that 50 percent of the state’s electricity must from clean, renewable sources like solar and wind power by 2030. […]
Published by Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University The Nicholas Institute, Resources for the Future, and the Georgetown Climate Center hosted a workshop that explored the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative’s (RGGI) role in achieving state climate goals and opportunities and challenges to expanding trading to states outside RGGI. Storified by · Mon, Aug […]
