Published by Ocean Conservancy This has been a busy season for ocean conservation. Last month, we celebrated when President Obama announced the world’s largest marine protected area in Hawaii, which was quickly followed by the first marine monument in the Atlantic Ocean. We then hailed important announcements made at the 2016 Our Ocean conference, including a […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A report released today underscores the high stakes to our health, environment, and pocketbooks if we fail to move aggressively to put many more zero-emission vehicles on the road to replace polluting gasoline-powered cars and trucks. The report, Clean Air Future, from the American Lung Association finds that the public […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund About 1,250 endangered Rothchild’s giraffes live north of the Nile River in Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park. Joel Sartore The veterinarian leaned out the Land Cruiser’s passenger-side window, a tranquilizer gun propped on his shoulder. After eyeing a herd of giraffes, he leveled the rifle and took a […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Global energy savings in 2015 reached a new high, equalling 13 percent of total consumption, despite lower energy prices and higher economic growth. A new analysis by the International Energy Agency (IEA) found that emerging countries like China led the way, and that government policies have been fundamental […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The bear, named Pizza, is showing signs of distress, advocates say, adding that using wild animals to attract customers is a disturbing trend in China. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/world/asia/china-polar-bear-shopping-mall.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund “It always seem impossible until it’s done.” Nelson Mandela This blog series is an effort to present some preliminary thoughts on how the U.S. and other nations could limit the increase in global average temperature to 1.5 C. My goal is to spark a conversation on this critical […]
Published by the Environmental News Service CAPE TOWN, South Africa, October 22, 2016 (ENS) – The ongoing Asian demand for lion bones has led to a wildlife poisoning in the Limpopo National Park, just over the Mozambican border from South Africa’s Kruger National Park. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/10/22/mass-wildlife-poisoning-in-limpopo-national-park/
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A male Eurasian wolf in Norway’s Langedrag Nature Park Tom Bech/Flickr If you have only a few of something left, you usually try to conserve them, right? From the last M&Ms in the bag to Elaine Benes’s sponges, scarcity tends to confer greater value. Endangered species work the […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Snow leopards have evolved to live in some of the harshest conditions on Earth. They scale the great, steep slopes of mountains in Central Asia with ease, blending into the landscape. But these majestic, endangered cats face many threats including habitat loss from climate change, reduced prey, poaching, and retaliatory […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund In the 19 years he has been working in conservation, 44-year-old Tenzin can readily identify the most challenging work he has tackled yet in Bhutan. “It was definitely the snow leopard survey work we conducted in Wangchuck Centennial National Park,” he said. “We had to survey remote, unpopulated areas over […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. The wind could provide a fifth of the world’s electricity by 2030 – The Global Wind Energy Council says emissions reduction targets and the rapidly falling price of wind power could result in […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Today, developed countries released a “Roadmap” for how they will mobilize climate finance between now and 2020. This critical funding will help developing countries build low carbon and climate resilient economies and is an integral part of the Paris Agreement since countries reinforced their commitment to mobilize $100 […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The past two weeks have been a remarkable period for international efforts to combat climate change, beginning on October 5 when the number of countries that ratified the Paris Agreement reached the number needed to bring it into force. This period wrapped up this past Saturday morning (October […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund At 6:55 on Saturday morning, more than 140 countries sealed a landmark deal, called the Kigali Amendment, to phase down the powerful climate-warming pollutants called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) under the Montreal Protocol, the treaty that saved the ozone layer. Almost ten years after NRDC and others first proposed amending […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The world took a huge step on climate action in finalizing a historic amendment to phase down super-potent greenhouse gases in Kigali, Rwanda. After a marathon negotiations stretching over ten days, and years in the making, countries around the world agreed on an ambitious and flexible amendment to […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Electric vehicle sales are expected to cruise by a new landmark – By the end of 2016, the number of plug-in cars on the world’s roadways is set to pass 2 million. China […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The title quotes Ms. Irene Diaz, Costa Rica’s Deputy Minister of Energy and Environmental Management, who said these words at the opening discussion of the high-level ministerial segment of the 28th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in Kigali, Rwanda today. Amidst intense negotiations to reach […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund It’s Wednesday night and we’re nearing the home stretch in talks in Kigali, Rwanda, over a freeze and phase-down of the super-potent climate pollutants called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Encouragingly, all countries are acting as if they expect to reach a deal on a Montreal Protocol amendment by the end […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A phaseout of hydrofluorocarbons could have a major effect on climate change but would make air-conditioning more expensive just as many Indians are becoming able to afford it. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/world/asia/india-air-conditioning.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A lot of people seem confused about what happened at CITES regarding elephants. On social media and in news articles, whether it’s Facebook or the BBC, people are asking: are elephants better off than they were before CITES? Yes, here’s why: Win: Encouraging Countries to Close Domestic Ivory […]