Pacific island nations are considering banning fossil fuels
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Read the full article at: https://www.nrdc.org/news/pacific-island-nations-are-considering-banning-fossil-fuels
Scientists observe rapid changes in the Arctic
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Theresa May gets rid of climate change department
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New York Is Poised to REV Up Its Electric Vehicles Market
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Through its much-discussed Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) effort to modernize our electric system for the 21st century—we’ve blogged about it here and here—the New York Public Service Commission (PSC) is well positioned to put the pedal to the metal on the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in […]
Latin America Green News This Week: 7/7 – 7/13/2016
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Efforts to save the Vaquita Marina continue, Lake Poopó is gone for good, Colombia to add climate change mitigation to constitution To get the weekly Latin America Green News blog delivered directly to your email, subscribe here. July 7 – July 13, 2016 Mexico’s Ambassador to the United States, […]
The case for re-engineering the way we adapt to climate change
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund We need a significant shift in planning and design to create cost-effective, flexible solutions that can better serve our warming world. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/165494262/0/edf/blogs/feed~The-case-for-reengineering-the-way-we-adapt-to-climate-change
Hawaiian False Killer Whale, Endangered but Not Protected
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Today we are back in court fighting for Hawaii’s last 150 resident false killer whales. We are asking a federal judge to compel the government to protect the endangered false killer whale’s tropical island habitat because if they don’t, we risk the loss of not just these big-hearted […]
Airplanes vs. Bullet Trains: The Race Is On in Texas
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Texas Central Railway plans on running trains similar to the Tokaido Shinkansen Series N700 (shown here) between Dallas and Houston. Wally Gobetz/Flickr Two guys walk into a bar…and go on to create Southwest Airlines. According to this durable snippet of too-good-to-fact-check corporate lore, the company’s founders drew a […]
Biologists find two litters of mountain lions near Los Angeles
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Biologists find two litters of mountain lions near Los Angeles – The cubs were discovered in the Santa Susana Mountains, just north of the city. The birth announcement is great news for the […]
Vote For Your Favorite!
Published by Ocean Conservancy Voting is open to select the winners of the 2016 Marine Wildlife and Seascape Photo Contest! This summer, we asked all of you to submit your best photos to our 2016 Marine Wildlife and Seascape Photo Contest. We’re so impressed by the hundreds of beautiful entries we’ve received. Now it’s your turn! […]
Hold Fast to Linear No-Threshold for Radiation Protection
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Linear no-threshold (LNT) is a model used in radiation protection to estimate the cancer risk caused by ionizing radiation. The LNT model assumes that radiation doses greater than zero will increase the risk of excess cancer or heritable disease in a simple proportionate manner in the low-dose range. […]
Attention Food Lovers: Eco-Conscious Eating Isn’t All About Distance
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Raymond Forbes/Stocksy When the modern local-food movement sprang up more than a decade ago—inspired by all those locavores who ate up Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma—many people paid a lot of attention to the distance their food traveled from farm to table. It was logical. Transporting food over great […]
ENGOs urge Ag Sec Vilsack to correct the record on biomass
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund NRDC and our allies took the unusual step of sending an open letter, dated July 13, 2016, to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack challenging the agency on a series of factually inaccurate and misleading claims about the benefits of biomass energy. The claims were made in a […]
Clean Energy Can Clear the Air in India
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Co-Authored with Jessica Korsh, NRDC Stanback Fellow Energy and air pollution Abhiyant Tiwari The International Energy Agency’s recent report estimates that 6.5 million deaths a year are linked to air pollution. The source of this pollution? Energy—its production and use. India is one of the countries at greatest […]
Persian Leopards Return to Caucasus
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Three Persian leopards were released into Russia’s Caucasus (Kavkazsky) State Nature Biosphere Reserve today. The event is a remarkable step in restoring leopard populations to the Caucasus. Until the middle of the 20th century, Persian leopards were common in the Caucasus. But by 1950, their population had dramatically decreased, and […]
Big Oil’s Claims About CA Climate Policies Were Wrong
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA), an oil industry lobbying group representing companies like Chevron, is breaking records with lobbying expenditures as it attempts to block efforts to extend California clean energy and climate programs beyond 2020, according to recent news reports. Now, WSPA and their members are […]
Senators are calling out climate deniers
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Senators are calling out climate deniers – This week at least 19 Senators are speaking out in support of the Senate Web of Denial Resolution, which condemns fossil fuel-funded companies and groups that […]
This story of bipartisanship will make you believe in government again
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund Rather than jockey for partisan advantage, lawmakers found a way to work together the old-fashioned way to protect Americans from dangerous or untested chemicals. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/164916932/0/edf/blogs/feed~This-story-of-bipartisanship-will-make-you-believe-in-government-again
Climate change linked to worst mangrove die-off on record
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Climate change linked to worst mangrove die-off on record – While climate change and El Niño teamed up this year to create the worst coral bleaching event in recorded history, mangroves in Australia’s […]
Lake Okeechobee’s algae problem is decades in the making
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Lake Okeechobee’s algae problem is decades in the making – Environmentalists say Florida hasn’t done enough to reduce phosphorus pollution, which triggers algae blooms, from farms and cities within the lake’s massive watershed. […]