Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, November 7, 2020 (ENS) – To the dismay of conservationists, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has opened hunting season on gray wolves across the United States by removing them from the national Endangered Species List. Farmers, cattlemen and ranchers applauded the delisting, but conservationists issued dire […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Goldsboro, N.C. (October 29, 2020) — Today, at Overman Farms in Goldsboro, N.C., U.S. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-finalizes-improvements-pesticide-application-exclusion-zone-requirements
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The United States is home to 95 million cattle, and changing what they eat could have a significant effect on emissions of greenhouse gases like methane that are warming the world. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/climate/beef-cattle-methane.html
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON (October 14, 2020) — Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler approved a request from The Fertilizer Institute (TFI) to allow phosphogypsum to be used in government road construction projects. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-approves-use-phosphogypsum-road-construction
Published by Ocean Conservancy There’s nothing quite like the first time you plunge beneath the ocean’s surface with SCUBA gear and become immersed in a world that was invisible to you just moments ago; a world full of corals and kelp, fishes and turtles, soft sands and cold muds and even sharks, stingrays, seals or whales, […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy Every summer growing up, my parents and I would pile into our Suburban with kayaks, beach toys and boogie boards and make the three-hour-long drive from Baltimore to the Jersey Shore. As a kid, those three hours felt like an eternity. But I always knew we were close to the beach when […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment An optimistic climate documentary narrated by Woody Harrelson argues for the healing power of soil, which could offer a solution to the climate crisis. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/movies/kiss-the-ground-review.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Honeybees were better at pollinating crops after scent training. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/science/bees-pollination-scent.html
Published by Ocean Conservancy The San Francisco Giants chose Hunter Pence as their Roberto Clemente Award nominee for 2020, Major League Baseball’s (MLB) annual recognition of the MLB player who best represents the game through extraordinary character, community involvement, philanthropy and positive contributions, both on and off the field. A World Champion with the Giants in […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy “Oh, the places you’ll go.” This is not a reference I never thought I’d conjure while staring at dirty clothes in my laundry hamper. I recently came across a scientific paper from University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) researchers who investigated the global contributions of laundry graywater to microplastic emissions, finding roughly […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON (September 16, 2020) — Today, the Federal District Court of Montana approved the motion to enter the Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit consent decree and supporting documents, making the consent decree an enforceable order of the Court. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/court-approves-consent-decree-allowing-epa-move-forward-butte-cleanup
Published by Ocean Conservancy This blog was written by Dave Doebler, the co-founder, along with his partner Dara Schoenwald, of VolunteerCleanup.org, a citizen-led environmental action group that has removed tons of marine debris from South Florida waterways and beaches, and a critically important partner of Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup. When people started texting me pictures […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON (August 26, 2020) — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the Next Gen Fertilizer Challenges, a joint EPA-USDA partnership and competition to advance agricultural sustainability in the United States. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-and-usda-announce-competition-advance-agricultural-sustainability-united-states
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The insect poses a serious threat to American crops, particularly vineyards, and inspires creative backyard methods of eliminating them. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/science/lanternbug-invasive-insect.html
Published by Ocean Conservancy Ocean Conservancy has partnered with the City of Miami, Florida through the Shores Forward initiative to protect ocean and coastal habitats, species and communities. Partnering with a municipality as large and complex as Miami requires a strong and invested partner. Since launching eight months ago, Ocean Conservancy has been collaborating with Miami’s […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy What’s at the bottom of the deep dark abyss that is our ocean? This centuries-old mystery has been ingrained in cultures around the world and fuels our imaginations to this day. Mermaids, giant sea monsters, ancient civilizations, ghosts, aliens—you name it, there’s some mythical, “Buzzfeed Unsolved-esque” lore about it that starts at […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a (mangrove) tree. As a kid growing up on the Indian River Lagoon in East Central Florida, the paramount importance of red, black and white mangroves and buttonwoods was not lost on me. These humble trees that line huge swaths of […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Warming soils in the tropics could cause microbes to release carbon dioxide from storage. One scientist called the finding “another example of why we need to worry more.” Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/climate/tropical-soils-climate-change.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment High temperatures and dry soil mean ideal conditions for fires. Blazes in June produced more carbon emissions than any other fires in almost two decades of monitoring. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/climate/climate-change-arctic-fires.html
Published by Ocean Conservancy Weatherly Bates, her husband Greg and their two children, own and operate Alaska Shellfish Farms, an oyster, mussel and kelp farm near Homer, Alaska. Over the course of a 14-year venture, they’ve seen many changes on the water, and in their surrounding Alaskan landscape. Working on the water, she’s become increasingly concerned […]