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 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of panic ensued as global markets struggled to absorb the news: The world’s sixth-largest economy had just voluntarily withdrawn from a powerful consortium whose 28 partners […]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 This blog post was also co-authored by legal intern Pablo Rojas. With all of the exciting energy policy developments coming out of New York these days (and there are many!), it can be challenging to keep tabs on the moving parts. From Governor Cuomo’s recent support for building […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. It’s time to decouple economic growth from overuse of resources – Global material extraction tripled between 1970 and 2010, with people in developed countries consuming up to ten times more resources than those […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Enbridge to pay $177 million for Kalamazoo oil spill – The Canadian pipeline company reached a settlement with the U.S. government this week for the 2010 spill, which sent more than a million […]
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 Writers, architects, planners and poets may celebrate the nation’s large, wondrous bridges and walkable city centers. But mayors know that much of the success of what we call infrastructure is literally keeping the trains running on time, managing drinking water, combating water pollution, and repairing potholes and sidewalks—the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Pollution from ship traffic causes 24,000 deaths a year in Asia – East Asia is home to eight of the world’s 10 biggest container ports, and a new study says it’s wreaking havoc […]
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 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 Antibiotic resistance may be the scariest, most critical health issue of our day. Read more here, and here. Even CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, responding to recent news that transmissible resistance to the “last resort” drug, colistin, had spread to the U.S. pigs and patients, admitted that “the […]
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 […]