Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund California, long a land of pioneers, leads the nation in developing emissions standards to reduce pollution from cars and trucks. These standards have cleaned up the Golden State’s air, and have benefited other states following California’s lead. Changes brewing in Washington could threaten these gains. Scott Pruitt’s statements […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Ever since Hurricane Katrina flooded much of New Orleans, experts have warned about a similar levee collapse in the San Francisco Bay-Delta. With 1,100 miles of levees, many claimed that the question about those levees was not if they would fail, but when. The same could be said […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A grizzly in Denali National Park Gregory “Slobirdr” Smith/Flickr For 20,000 years, grizzly bears padded over Washington’s North Cascades, foraging for berries and plants, hunting small prey, and fishing for salmon in frigid streams. Then a few centuries ago, white settlers showed up and starting shooting, driving the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The monarch butterfly population has declined yet again to 2.91 hectares—almost 30% less than last year’s population. The monarch population has been in steady decline for the past 20 years—reaching a high of over 20 hectares in 1997 and plunging to 0.67 hectares in 2014. Last year’s count […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund President Trump’s nominee to lead the agency will do nothing to protect public health or the environment. He doesn’t know even the most well established science on public health. He will roll back the vital public health protections that have taken decades to put in place. Just watching […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Dan Mullen/Flickr I wanted to bring you the story of Bombus affinis, the first bumblebee species to receive Endangered Species Act protections in the history of the United States. I wanted to tell you that although populations of this bee have declined by 87 percent since the late […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Nazario Graziano, colagene.com When farmers returned to war-torn northern Uganda in 2008, they had to figure out how to begin again. A local cotton gin backed by social entrepreneurs from abroad offered some hope. The Gulu Agricultural Development Company (GADC) would train the returning farmers to grow cotton […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund NRDC filed its first lawsuit against the Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for illegally rescinding a rule that would protect the public from 5 tons of mercury discharges every year. The Mercury Effluent Rule is simple, common sense, and supported by all major stakeholders, including the American Dental […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund India Green News News: India Meteorological Department Opens Climate Services Unit; Renewables to Overtake India’s Oil Output in 2035; India Just Banned All Forms of Disposable Plastic in its Capital India Green News is a selection of news highlights about environmental and energy issues in India. January 20 […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund On the eve of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources confirmation vote for Rick Perry to be Secretary of Energy, it’s important to take a close look at the Trump administration’s plans for America’s energy future. The administration’s new webpage on “An America First Energy Plan” is—like […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Gage Skidmore Welcome to onEarth’s inaugural weekly Trump v. Earth column, in which we review the environment-related shenanigans of President Trump and his allies. A Mission Long Since Accomplished One of Donald Trump’s first acts as president will be to solve problems we don’t have. His America First […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund There is a Maasai saying, ‘If you are bold and clever, try to put a necklace on an elephant.’ That’s just what David Leto, a WWF-Kenya Elephant Officer whose father was killed by an elephant, is trying to do. He helps attach GPS collars to elephants in order to track […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A large sinkhole on the Israeli shoreline of the Dead Sea Ziva & Amir/Flickr The search-and-rescue unit’s SUV isn’t in its parking spot, so David Greenbaum, the manager of Israel’s Ein Gedi Nature Reserve, picks up the key to the white sedan left in its place. “I think […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund President Trump’s advisors have signaled that he is considering signing an Executive Order that will exempt the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and projects like it from having to show that they are in the national interest of the United States. Keystone XL was a pipeline that would […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Forests are magnificent places teeming with a huge diversity of life. They are essential for life on Earth. They impact our lives in so many ways, from the air we breathe to the wood we use. Eight of 10 species found on land live in forests, and almost 300 million […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Lower Des Plaines River Photo by Cynthia Skrukrud It took nearly six years and two lawsuits, but the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District has finally agreed to do the right thing and take the steps necessary to get rid of the algae pollution being fueled by its sewage treatment […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Sonny Perdue, a long-time agribusiness leader, Democrat-turned-Republican state legislator, two-time governor of Georgia to lead the US Department of Agriculture. Faced with a warming planet, increasing water scarcity, collapsing bee populations and other environmental challenges, USDA needs a leader who will promote planet-friendly farming […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Tragedy strikes as another environmental activist murdered To get the weekly Latin America Green News blog delivered directly to your email, subscribe here. January 12 – 19, 2017 Environmental Justice Isisdro home in the village of Coloradas de la Virgen, Chihuahua Goldman Environmental Foundation Isidro Baldenegro López, a […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Over forty-five scientific researchers, medical doctors, nurses, and public health professionals sent EPA a letter urging EPA to cancel the remaining agricultural uses of this dangerous neurotoxic pesticide, and praising the conclusions of EPA’s 2016 human health risk assessment for chlorpyrifos that finds unsafe levels of chlorpyrifos in […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund It’s easy to take the miracles of modern medicine for granted, including the discovery of antibiotics. Roughly since WWII, grave infections that had once killed or maimed with frequency, no longer did. Penicillin and then other antibiotics were the difference, typically allowing a patient to go home just […]