Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund NRDC Cities are the incubators of change. I had the opportunity to see city leadership in action during my recent visit to Ahmedabad, a rapidly urbanizing city in western India grappling with rising air pollution levels. In an innovative step, the city along with NRDC and other partners, […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Today we’re celebrating the fourth-annual World Wildlife Day—a time to reflect on the amazing diversity of wildlife on our planet and recommit to conservation. In the past year alone, we’ve had much to applaud when it comes to protecting wildlife and wild places: both the US and China began implementing […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Today we’re celebrating the fourth-annual World Wildlife Day—a time to reflect on the amazing diversity of wildlife on our planet and recommit to conservation. In the past year alone, we’ve had much to applaud when it comes to protecting wildlife and wild places: both the US and China began implementing […]
Published by the Environmental News Service NEW DELHI, India, March 2, 2017 (ENS) – India’s National Tiger Conservation Authority has banned the BBC network and its journalist Justin Rowlatt from filming in any of the country’s tiger reserves for five years. The ban follows Rowlatt’s documentary focused on India’s “shoot on sight” policy poachers at […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Colombian organization seeks to save seed species, Guatemala and UK Space Agency team up to fight deforestation, jobs in renewable energy sector are on the rise February 24 – March 2, 2017 Climate Change Record breaking temperatures during recent years have left much of Mexico in a troubling […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund India’s Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) is predicting April 2017 to be one degree hotter than normal. According to the IMD outlook, above normal temperatures are likely over most parts of the India during February, March and April 2017. With climate change, rising temperatures and every year since 2014 […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund In the wake of President Trump’s inauguration, one thing has become very clear. If there is to be progress on climate change in America it will likely come from state, regional and international actions, not Washington, D.C. Given this new context, developing a regional electricity grid that brings […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Prior to taking office the Trump administration talked about making $1 trillion in new infrastructure investments. Since taking office, the administration hasn’t said much about infrastructure, but Senate Democrats have put forward their own plan. Instead, the Trump administration has begun an assault on our environment and the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a list of 12 antibiotic-resistant bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health. On it? A bunch of bacteria that have become resistant to modern antibiotics used to treat people who get sick from them including several bacteria resistant to […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund South African rhino poaching numbers for the last year show a decline for the second consecutive year due to concerted conservation efforts. However, there is still a long road ahead as Africa continues to lose an average of three rhinos a day to the ongoing poaching crisis. In 2016 alone, […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund South African rhino poaching numbers for the last year show a decline for the second consecutive year due to concerted conservation efforts. However, there is still a long road ahead as Africa continues to lose an average of three rhinos a day to the ongoing poaching crisis. In 2016 alone, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund AIRS instrument on NASA’s Aqua spacecraft shows high carbon dioxide concentrations in the Northern Hemisphere. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio/NASA/JPL AIRS Project Record floods. Raging storms. Deadly heat. Climate change manifests itself in myriad ways, and it’s the ultimate equalizer: a challenge faced by every living […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Air conditioning demand is expected to boom in India during the next decade. Bhaskar Deol It’s official—2016 was the hottest year on record, and the third year in a row to break global heat records. In May, temperatures hit 123.8 degrees F (51 degrees C) in Phalodi, Rajasthan, […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Resorts in places like the Maldives, Bali and Malaysia are working to rebuild damaged coral reefs, and guests can help. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/travel/restoring-coral-reefs-ocean-resort-priority.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Tony Fischer via Flickr What happens to the electric grid, your wallet, and carbon emissions when you retire a troubled nuclear power plant just north of New York City? That’s the central question explored by Synapse Energy Economics, a leading utility industry firm, in a report released today […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The woodland caribou is one of Canada’s national icons. Think America’s bald eagle or China’s giant panda. It might be better known down here as the trusty steed that pulls Santa’s sleigh—Christmastime’s “reindeer.” Despite the species’ special place in Canada’s national iconography, today many herds across Canada are […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Today, former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, a “longtime adversary of the EPA,” as the Washington Post put it, takes over the US Environmental Protection Agency. But he takes it over under the shadow of unprecedented opposition from US Senators, EPA employees and public interest groups. Forty-six senators […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Phuchung Lachenpa is most at home in the high mountain valleys of India’s eastern Himalaya, which towers over his hometown of Lachen in Sikkim. A yak herder and trekking guide, he is intimately familiar with the local mountains and the Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve, which protects the eastern half of the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Our India team is in Ahmedabad this week working with the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation and partners on the first of its kind, Ahmedabad Air and Response (AIR) Plan. I had the honor of meeting Ms. Elaben Bhatt along with our special guest Ms. Frances Beinecke to discuss the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund New York City’s 2016 break-through law that established a five cent fee on single use plastic (and paper) grocery bags so as to encourage shoppers to switch to reusables has been toppled in Albany. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed an ill-advised state bill preempting NYC’s plastic […]