Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund U.S. Mission Photo Eric Bridiers Beginning September 1, members of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) gathered in Hawaii for the World Conservation Congress to discourse on the future of conservation and sustainable development. Every four years the Congress, which is made up of 217 […]
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 […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Boulder, Colorado, is going 100 percent renewable – This week the city pledged to get all of its electricity from renewable energy by 2030. And it’s not alone—the announcement makes Boulder the 17th […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Pixabay This month marks the end of a banner year for Dominion Power, Virginia’s largest energy utility: a year after launching an expansion of their low-income EnergyShare program, they’ve weatherized an impressive 7,000 homes. That’s impressive enough, but what’s more impressive is that 87 percent of those are […]
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 The Olympics wrapped up several weeks ago, but in eastern Manhattan in New York, there are still hundreds of countries gathered. It’s not athletic pursuits and competition bringing nations together, however; this time the cause for convening is the negotiation of a new treaty for the high seas […]
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 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. Paris will turn Seine highway into pedestrian park – Flâneurs rejoice! In an effort to reduce traffic and pollution, the city is getting rid of a busy highway on the right bank of […]
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 Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Toxic nanoparticles found in human brains – A new study of brain tissue from 37 people found abundant quantities of magnetite particles, an iron oxide that comes from industrial air pollution. The finding […]
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. […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Presidents Obama and Xi announced that the U.S. and China have formally joined the Paris Agreement, moving the agreement within reach of entering into force this year. This announcement sends a strong signal that these two countries will continue to act aggressively on climate change through stronger domestic […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released a revised and long-awaited proposed minimum efficiency standard for residential natural gas furnaces, which are found in about 40 percent of U.S. homes, making them the most prevalent heating equipment in America. DOE estimates the updated standard will deliver up […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. The Coastal California gnatcatcher will remain on Endangered Species List – Developers, barred from carving up 197,000 acres of the songbird’s critical habitat in Southern California, argued that the gnatcather was not a genetically distinct […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Massive reef found hiding behind Great Barrier Reef – Scientists have known for decades that mysterious geological structures were lurking in the deep waters north of the Great Barrier Reef, and now sea […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This is the first blog in a special three-part series on green finance in China Xinhua On September 4-5, this year’s G20 Summit will be held in Hangzhou, China. Green finance will be one of the major topics of discussion at this meeting, marking the first time that […]