Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund (c) Elly Pepper The last few years have seen a number of countries close their ivory markets as a way to help curb the current poaching crisis, which is driving elephants towards extinction. Indeed, the U.S. placed a near-total ban on its ivory market between 2014 and 2016 and China […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund How can limited public funds be used most efficiently to stimulate large amounts of private investment in clean energy and resilient, twenty-first century infrastructure? This was the key question addressed at the Fifth Annual Green Bank Congress in New York City as part Climate Week NYC and alongside […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund WWF would like to congratulate the recipients of the 2017 Russell E. Train Fellowship. Funded by the Russell E. Train Education for Nature Program (EFN), Train Fellows pursue their graduate degrees in conservation-related fields anywhere in the world and then return to their home countries better equipped to take on […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Pronghorn of the American West have been springing across this continent—at up to 60 miles per hour—for approximately 17 million years. Though sometimes called antelopes, these fleet-footed mammals are actually one of the few remaining species of giraffids, which also include Africa’s giraffes and okapis. The distinction led […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund In vulnerable pockets across the globe, women are benefiting themselves, their children, and their larger communities by learning how to harness renewable energy. The barefoot solar engineers of Tinginaput, India (from left): Talsa Miniaka, Pulka Wadeka, Meenakshi Dewan, Bundei Hidreka ©Abbie Trayler-Smith/Panos Pictures/Department for International Development Proponents of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Trump Administration recently weakened the Guidance for how the U.S. representative at the multilateral development banks will vote on future projects being financed. The new guidance calls for increased fossil fuel projects to be financed by the multilateral development banks, in direct contrast to what MDBs have […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund THIS WEEK: Bolivia’s TIPNIS under renewed threat, financing renewables in Argentina, electromobility in Chile To subscribe to NRDC’s Latin America Green News click here Feature: TIPNIS National Park in Bolivia under threat The Isiboro Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (known by its Spanish acronym TIPNIS) in the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Concerned Citizens of Richmond County protest Enviva, which is planning to open a wood-pellet plant in Dobbin Heights, North Carolina. Call to Action Media Debra David lives with her two sisters, Mary and Betty, in their childhood home in Dobbins Heights, a North Carolina town of fewer than […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund [embedded content] The following is a transcript of the video: Audrey Peterman, author & public lands advocate: Our national monuments, to a great degree, protect the places of history, of culture, of natural beauty. If we were to lose monuments, then that’s like taking out a piece of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A female jaguar near Brazil’s Piquiri River Charlesjsharp via Wikimedia Commons Outside his outpost, a Colombian Navy guardsman wakes from a quick nap to see a jaguar inches from his face. A scrap ensues. The cat bites the guardsman’s thigh, but the man defends himself with the butt […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund (C) Laurent de Walick Tomorrow is World Elephant Day, which always makes me reflect on what the past year brought for elephants. As usual, it’s a mix of good and bad. The bottom line: the situation is improving, but not quickly enough. Here’s some of the highlights—both good and […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy It’s fitting that today—the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples—is when I get to introduce you to three remarkable young people who are part of Ocean Conservancy’s commitment to bring more diversity into marine conservation. Through the Roger Arliner Young Marine Conservation Diversity Fellowship, we are honored to host Emily Okikawa, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund San Gabriel Mountains California [embedded content] To civil rights attorney Robert Garcia, the San Gabriel Mountains, just north of Los Angeles, are a source of joyful childhood memories. If the Trump administration shrinks or eliminates our national monuments, it will “violate the will of the people” and rob […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund How do you feed a hotter, drier, more inequitable world? A new generation of American farmers are coming up with answers that rarely resemble the cornstalks and cattle pens of mainstream agriculture. Today’s American farmers are less white. They’re also increasingly experimental. Even as our biggest farms get […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Herd of African elephants Johan Sjolander/iStock Until it was amended in 2015, California’s state ivory ban had a loophole that cost many lives. Its primary victims were those same beleaguered African elephants the law was written to protect. The loophole allowed the continued sale of ivory imported into […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund [embedded content] The following is a transcript of the video. Audrey Peterman, president and cofounder, Earthwise Productions: One of my favorite national monuments in the system is the African Burial Ground National Monument, just off Wall Street in Manhattan. It was designated in 2006 by President George W. […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Cape Hattaras National Sea Shore Credit: National Park Service Just last week the State of North Carolina joined the tidal wave of national opposition to expanded offshore drilling that has continued to mount in the wake of the Trump administration’s attempts to scrap the just-finalized offshore leasing plan, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Richard Mia Fact: Not all information is created equal. On June 1, 2017, President Trump stood in the White House Rose Garden and gave a speech rife with dubious claims, faulty statistics, and flat-out lies to announce his withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. Instead of seizing the opportunity […]
Published by the Environmental News Service ROME, Italy, July 24, 2017 (ENS) – In an unprecedented move, Pope Francis has donated €25,000 to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s efforts to support people struggling with food insecurity and famine in East Africa. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/07/24/pope-donates-to-feed-drought-stricken-east-africa/
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This post co-authored by Alex Hillbrand The Montreal Protocol’s 30th anniversary is shaping up to be a good year for ozone and climate protection. The parties gathered last week in Bangkok for their midyear meeting to make headway on the ongoing phase-out of ozone-killing HCFCs and to start […]