Published by Ocean Conservancy This was originally posted as part of the Vital Arctic Ocean Areas blog series. See all posts here. This summer we were fortunate to share a blog series brought to us by Arctic scientists — experts working to study and understand the habitat, species and ecological changes happening at the top of the world. […]
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 Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Antarctica’s Ross Sea will become home to the world’s largest marine protected area – At a meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, delegates from 24 countries […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Study says wildlife populations fell 58 percent in 40 years – A new analysis by the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London says worldwide, wildlife numbers plummeted by 58 percent […]
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 Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Bearded seals win endangered species protections – A federal appeals court has overturned a 2014 ruling that said the species didn’t deserve an endangered status. The judge ruled that shrinking sea ice and […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Who doesn’t love the big, burly white bears of the north? Polar bears—at the top of the food chain and vital to the health of the Arctic marine environment—are important to the cultures and economies of Arctic peoples. The bears spend most of their lives on sea ice, where they […]
Published by the Department of the Interior The nation’s newest wildlife refuge joins the largest network of lands in the nation dedicated to wildlife conservation, with 565 other national wildlife refuges – at least one refuge in every state – and other protected areas covering more than 150 million acres. Read the full article at: https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/secretary-jewell-announces-great-thicket-national-wildlife-refuge
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Producing food is critical to the future of humankind, yet it’s also one of the most significant threats to wildlife and the oceans, forests, and other habitats they call home. The good news is that a growing proportion of food is certified sustainable by independent organizations that WWF supports. By […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment On the Penobscot in Maine and other rivers in the U.S., several endangered species are rebounding with the reopening of spawning areas. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/25/science/penobscot-river-maine-dam-removal-fish.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by Ocean Conservancy It’s no surprise that sea turtles are some of the most iconic and lovable animals in the ocean. To celebrate Reptile Awareness Day, we’re pulling out some of the strangest facts about these enchanting vertebrates. Brush up on your turtle trivia with the five fun facts below! Some (baby turtles) like it […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund 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 issue. Part 2 of a 3 part blog: Stopping […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Guest blog by Anna Wearn, NRDC Water Program Assistant Susitna River and Alaska Range. Image Courtesy of Travis Rummel. The Susitna River depicted above, Image courtesy of Wild Salmon Center. This wild Alaskan river and its watershed are currently threatened by a proposal to build the nation’s second tallest […]
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 Department of the Interior Through the work of the White House Council on Native American Affairs, chaired by Secretary Jewell, Cabinet agencies are working to improve overall federal interagency coordination and efficiency, promoting tribal-federal partnerships in education, health, energy and economic development and environmental conservation and adaptation. Read the full article at: https://www.doi.gov/mediaadvisories/secretary-jewell-address-50th-annual-alaska-federation-natives-convention-fairbanks
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Read this post in French. Global Forest Watch Canada (GFWC) has released a report that highlights the growing threat of logging and road building to one of Quebec’s largest and last remaining intact forest landscapes—the Broadback River watershed. The Broadback River watershed, comprising more than five million acres […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund World agrees to phase-down HFCs, Chile hands down new regulations to salmon fisheries, Nestlé to go 100 percent renewable in Panama To get the weekly Latin America Green News blog delivered directly to your email, subscribe here. October 13 – October 20, 2016 Climate Change Negotiators at the Kigali […]
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 World Wildlife Fund Kien Giang province is nestled in the southwest of Vietnam, featuring a prominent coastline along the Gulf of Thailand. Here in these tepid waters lives the blue swimming crab, a crustacean with an olive-green body and front claws the color of the sky on a clear day. Many locals rely […]