Published by the World Wildlife Fund A new agreement gives hope for the critically endangered vaquita. Signed by the Government of Mexico, the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, and the Carlos Slim Foundation, and formally supported by WWF, the agreement includes a permanent ban on gillnets in vaquita habitat, as well as the development of new fishing gear […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund In a disturbing and growing new trend, Asian elephants of all ages are being slaughtered in Myanmar for their skin and other body parts. Elephant poaching rates since January have already surpassed the annual average for the country—in a country that has less than 2,000 wild Asian elephants, this is […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund We think approving the expansion of a massive new open pit strip mine in Utah, wedged between Bryce Canyon and Zion national parks, is a bad idea. You can read the details on why here. The point of this blog is lay out the history and timeline of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement was, as expected, widely critiqued by governments in Latin America. Over the past several years, several countries in the region have been vocal advocates of the need for ambitious global action on climate change. This willingness to take […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A day that will go down in history as the time America turned its back on the world, plus more climate denial and attacks on our health from the EPA. President Trump returns to the Oval Office after announcing the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement. Sipa […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund It’s no hoax: by recklessly withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, Trump has just ceded the race for global leadership to China. Not only has he weakened American influence in the world, he has also damaged our relationship with some of our most important allies who no longer believe they can rely on […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy Gavin Schmidt, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, elegantly responded to the potential US withdrawal from the Paris Climate treaty with a simple quote by Galileo: “eppure si riscalda (and yet it moves)”. As history has it, this was Galileo’s stubborn response to church inquisitors questioning his findings about […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Pixabay The koala is a strong candidate for the most darling critter on earth. It has mad-scientist ear floofs, a dopey nose, and the rounded body dimensions of a teddy bear. But chlamydia is not cute. The contagious bacterial disease gums up the koala’s eyes with mucus, damages […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Is approving a massive new strip mine wedged between two of America’s most visited national parks a good idea? The odds are the Trump Administration will think it is. The mine in question sits near the Southern Utah town of Alton, a short distance from Bryce Canyon and […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Latin America Green News: Colombia grants rights to the Atrato River, Argentina’s nuclear deal with China, electric vehicles get a boost To get the weekly Latin America Green News blog delivered directly to your email, subscribe here. May 19 – 25, 2017 Conservation An estimated eight million tons of plastic […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Ed Dunens/Flickr Nearly 400 miles above earth, there’s a hunk of metal taller than an elephant and heavier than a rhino. It’s a privately operated satellite named WorldView-3 that’s been orbiting the planet every 97 minutes since 2014, taking tens of thousands of high-resolution pictures as it rips […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund President Trump’s proposed budget would threaten wildlife by opening up the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, and gutting essential funding for species and habitat conservation across the country and around the world. Matthew Studebaker As predicted when the Trump administration released its […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund India Green News: India reaffirms Paris climate commitments; Solar power tariff falls further to Rs. 2.44 per unit; Union minister Harsh Vardhan launches ‘Safar-Air’ Ahmedabad services India Green News is a selection of news highlights about environmental and energy issues in India. May 10 – May 24, 2017 […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund The village of Ak-Shyrak, Kyrgyzstan is special to Farida Balbakova. But just in her lifetime, the village has gone through enormous changes. In her youth, it was under Soviet Rule and all property was government-owned. In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and Farida watched as her countrymen lost their livelihoods […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund President Trump’s budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2018 makes it clear his administration intends to continue its war on clean energy. The “starvation budget” proposed today would slash funding for renewable energy and efficiency programs by a devastating 70 percent, including popular energy efficiency programs that helping put […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The West Calumet housing complex was built over the site of the Anaconda White Lead Company (pictured), which smelted or processed lead for decades. Courtesy of the East Chicago Public Library Maritza Lopez pulled a postcard out of her mailbox five years ago. It was an invitation from […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The international negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change continued this week — even as the world’s largest cumulative emitter threatened to withdraw from the talks. Trump continues to treat participation in the Paris Agreement as a bargaining chip for the upcoming G7 meeting in Italy. […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund During his trip to Bears Ears, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke (pictured here, in a blue shirt, with Utah governor Gary Herbert) spent almost all his time with politicians and energy executives who want to open up the monument for fossil fuel extraction. U.S. Department of the Interior Interior […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund It feels like Groundhog Day…..again. Because the Senate Commerce Committee just snuck what is essentially the same ballast water bill we have been beating back every year into the Coast Guard Reauthorization Act. And then they voted it to the Senate floor. The legislation is custom-designed to allow […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund A snow leopard was successfully collared in Kangchenjunga Conservation Area on May 8, 2017 making it the fourth one to be collared in Nepal’s eastern snow leopard conservation complex. The snow leopard, a sub-adult female about two years of age and weighing 66 lbs., was tracked and fitted with a […]