Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Governor Cuomo’s 2019 budget proposal includes two promising initiatives to address critical food-related issues—one on food waste and one on school food. pisanieprac.info Food Waste As part of this year’s budget, the Governor has put forth a comprehensive proposal to address food waste by preventing, recovering, and recycling […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy In a mere two weeks, Nick Mallos and I will board a plane in Atlanta for a 16-hour flight to Johannesburg South Africa, followed by another 6-hour flight across the South Atlantic to St. Helena, one of the world’s most remote islands. We will be joining Dr. Al Dove, Vice President of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Paulo Oliveira/Alamy Covering more than 70 percent of our planet, oceans are among the earth’s most valuable natural resources. They govern the weather, clean the air, help feed the world, and provide a living for millions. They also are home to most of the life on earth, from […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund In August 2017, Nepal made conservation history by becoming the first country to launch its climate-smart snow leopard landscape management leading the way in safeguarding the species and its habitat. Nepal’s conservation plan, made under a joint initiative that aims to conserve snow leopards and valuable high mountain habitat called […]
Published by the Environmental News Service BEIJING, China, January 22, 2018 (ENS) – The African Wildlife Foundation and the Beijing Zoo today launched a partnership intended to enhance China’s participation in sustainable conservation of Africa’s wildlife and wild lands. The AWF said the partnership “ushers in a new era of global allegiance to wildlife protection.” […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy Last Friday morning, my colleague Sarah Kollar and I put on our rain jackets and made our way to Northeast DC for an exciting announcement. We hopped over puddles on the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail—a path we know well—and made our way through Heritage Island towards Kingman where we joined the crowd gathered […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Authored by Jennifer Skene SteveAllenPhoto / iStock As the international marketplace calls on Canada to protect its boreal caribou, Ontario has chosen instead to enable rampant logging in the habitat of this treasured species. Today, without meaningful consultation with stakeholders, Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Meet Victoria. She was among three Persian leopards released in 2016 into the wild of the Caucasus Nature Reserve—a place where the species had gone extinct. Last June, she went off the grid, only to reappear six months later in November in the village of Lykhny. Residents found traces of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Southern Resident orca whale faces a new—and existential—threat. Today, only 76 of these orcas swim the waters off the Pacific Northwest shoreline. If Secretary Ryan Zinke and the Trump Administration succeed in opening the U.S. coastline to oil and gas drilling, we could lose these magnificent whales—forever. […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The water world has been abuzz this past week with confirmation that the proponents of the massive, twin tunnel water diversion project in the Delta (aka “WaterFix”) are redefining the project. This pivot was precipitated by the failure of proponents to attract funding anywhere near the $17 billion […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Researchers have set up four weather stations in a preserve in the mountains of north Bhutan for the first time, allowing them to monitor conditions at various altitudes over the long-term. Data collected by these stations will help determine the best ways to help wildlife in the region adapt to […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy Greetings from chilly Anchorage! Towards the end of December, scientists discovered a new species of Pacific octopus in the waters of Prince William Sound, Alaska. I am a BIG fan of Pacific octopus, so you can imagine my excitement when I learned that a pair of marine biologists from Alaska Pacific University […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Mojave Desert outside of Pahrump, Nevada Helen O’Shea Southern Nevada is a prime location for solar development—the sun shines well over 200 plus days a year here. It’s also home to some of the Mojave desert’s most iconic species including desert tortoise and bighorn sheep. Balancing the development […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund On January 19, His Holiness Pope Francis will touch down for a few hours in Madre de Dios, an area in the Peruvian Amazon. Displaying his usual compassion for the marginalized and the powerless, the Pope will spend his time meeting with indigenous people and children. While the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund iStock Well, this is awkward. After opening 90 percent of America’s coastlines to offshore drilling last week, U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke exempted Florida after its governor, Rick Scott, asked him to. That’s great news for Florida’s communities, coastal habitats, and local economies (and, ahem, Mar-a-Lago), […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Protesters against the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast Pipelines at the Virginia Capitol Square in Richmond Daniel Sangjib Min/Richmond Times-Dispatch/AP Images Like the Keystone XL and Dakota Access before it, a disputed pipeline recently got the green light from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which controls the […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund In less than a decade, Bhutan’s Royal Manas National Park has achieved a big win for tiger conservation. From only 10 tigers in 2010, its population has now grown to 22. Singye Wangmo, the Royal Manas National Park’s manager, credits the increase to the great teamwork, including strong transboundary collaboration […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund In a welcome move, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) yesterday rejected Constitution Pipeline’s petition to overturn a previous New York State rejection of the fracked gas pipeline. This is one more nail in the coffin of this flawed project. Pipeline construction near homes. David Jones Constitution claimed […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Welcome to our weekly Trump v. Earth column, in which onEarth reviews the environment-related shenanigans of President Trump and his allies. Rick Perry Gets Totally FERC’d The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission unanimously rejected U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s plan to delay the retirement of outdated coal and nuclear […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy Some of my favorite early summer evenings were spent on the Puget Sound with the Olympic Mountains in view and the salty smell of the ocean nearby. My friends and I would get together at the local marina to grab beers and a bag of oysters from the dockside shop. Then at […]