Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This blog was drafted by Elizabeth Shope and Danielle Droitsch Contrary to a recent report from Natural Resources Canada (NRCAN), which goes to great lengths to say all is well in Canada’s boreal forest, a report released by Global Forest Watch (GFW) Canada this month presents a very […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Many Americans don’t realize the environmental consequences of food waste – A new national survey finds that less than 60 percent of respondents know wasting food is bad for the environment. (Trashing food […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. The United States will miss its climate target if these pipelines get built – Energy companies want to build 19 natural gas pipelines across the eastern United States. But a new report says […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Food insecurity plaguing the region, Guatemalan town strives to become adaptation model, Mexico adds budget to mitigation efforts in Tabasco To get the weekly Latin America Green News blog delivered directly to your email, subscribe here. July 14 – July 20, 2016 Climate Change As droughts continue to pose […]
Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme An HFC phase-down can avoid up to 0.5⁰ Celsius of global warming by 2100. HFCs are the fastest-growing greenhouse gases. Many are 100s to 1000s of times more powerful than carbon dioxide (CO2) at warming the atmosphere. The Climate and Clean Air Coalition believes urgent actions, like an […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund If you want to get a sense of what Republican Congressional leaders think about environmental policy, there’s no better place to start than the spending bill for environmental agencies that the House passed, largely along party lines, right before leaving town for the conventions and the rest of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund HFC phase-down talks in Vienna are moving forward rapidly this week as countries engage on the specifics of freeze and reduction targets and funding needs. Negotiators have delved into key issues all week, and ministers are arriving for high-level talks over the next two days. Expectations are high […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund AP Photo/Frank Augstein When the United Kingdom surprised the world last month by voting to leave the European Union, a brief period of panic ensued as global markets struggled to absorb the news: The world’s sixth-largest economy had just voluntarily withdrawn from a powerful consortium whose 28 partners […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Evacuating by truck through flood waters, Charity Hospital, New Orleans, after the Hurricane Katrina levee failure disaster. Ben Record/WikiCommons Imagine what it would be like to struggle to pay your bills, feed your children, get to work, or find work on a daily basis. Then picture having to do those […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Powder River Basin, WY EcoFlight We’re coming up on an important milestone in the history of coal mining in the United States. In January, the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) announced a moratorium on new federal coal leases. In addition, it announced it was conducting a comprehensive review […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Communities, cities and regions can do better than succumbing to the relentless budget pressures and inertia that contribute to failures like the Flint, Mich., drinking water disaster, road and bridge collapses, train derailments and sewer overflows plaguing localities nationwide. They don’t have to think of “infrastructure”—such as bridges, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. We’re halfway through another record-breaking year of heat – NASA scientists are discussing the troubling temperature trends seen in the first six months of 2016. Every month so far has set a new […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Obama Administration today announced a set of initiatives designed to help Americans make their homes more energy efficient and take advantage of solar power. The Fact Sheet describing the specific regulatory changes, of course, contains policy jargon and plenty of acronyms, but in practice it’s pretty simple—these several […]
Published by the Department of the Interior Climate change increasing the number and severity of wildfires across the West. Read the full article at: https://www.doi.gov/blog/wildfires-heat-across-west
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund India Green News is a selection of news highlights about environment and energy issues in India. July 6 – July 18, 2016Compiled by Jessica Korsh Climate Change WHO: Climate change may kill 250k yearly Climate change is likely to kill 250,000 more people each year by 2030, latest […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Pixabay Our systems of community development and infrastructure are broken. Housing is unaffordable for many. Public transportation isn’t adequate to connect all who need it to jobs and education. As climate change becomes a reality, the effects of repeated urban flooding are displacing people, straining local resources, and […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund America’s drive for cleaner, more fuel-efficient cars, SUVs and trucks is reaching a major signpost, and it looks like we’re picking up speed. A new government report shows that we’re making important progress, while illustrating the potential for even greater pocketbook savings for motorists—if only we keep a […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Agriculture and deforestation don’t have to go hand in hand – The world’s tropical regions lost 7 million hectares of forest between 2000 and 2010 while gaining 6 million hectares of agricultural land, but […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund New buildings in New York City—both commercial and residential—are about to get a whole lot more energy-efficient, thanks to improvements to the New York City Energy Conservation Code (NYCECC), green-lighted earlier this week by the New York City Council. The code governs new construction (and renovations) in the […]
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 […]