Extending CITES protections to sharks will help safeguard additional shark species threatened by international trade, while strengthening how this international treaty enforces the protection of some of the most important and vulnerable predators that swim our oceans.
The Southeast Side, once an industrial capital, is home to a surprising number of beautiful natural preserves: wetlands, forest, and prairie. In order to protect these threatened habitats, there needs to be a shift to a green industrial corridor.
The Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposed rule today to strip a powerful tool under the Clean Water Act states and tribes have used to prevent federally permitted projects from harming their waterways.
Environmental anthropologist James J. A. Blair revisits ongoing efforts to restore ecosystems in an integral part of the Indigenous Mapuche territory in what is now Chile.
An Anchorage-based wildlife biologist describes what life is like in our northernmost state—one that’s been dramatically altered by rising temperatures.
We need climate action now. We needed it years ago. The Climate Stewardship Act will give farmers the much-needed resources needed to help us in that fight, and it is not a moment too soon.
Expert BlogInternationalJoAnne Berkenkamp, Elizabeth Balkan
The IPCC lands report makes clear that the food system is a significant driver of climate change, but that it can also be a vital part of the solution.
California’s agricultural communities are continuing to sound the alarm for the health of their children, as a promised statewide ban on chlorpyrifos—a pesticide that harms children’s brains—has yet to go into effect.
Expert BlogInternational, United States, New York, New York City, CaliforniaSujatha Bergen
A new report released by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change today is the third in six months from the world’s leading experts to show that rising to the challenge of the climate crisis will require not only…
A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on climate change and land use sounds the alarm about the risks of turning large swaths of land around the world to grow crops for various forms of so-called…
Expert BlogInternational, CanadaAnthony Swift, Jennifer Skene
The IPCC Special Report on Lands and Climate highlights the central role global intact forests must place in preventing catastrophic climate change and highlights the need to transform how we use our forests. As a starting place, we must stop…
The New York Public Service Commission (PSC) is planning to launch a proceeding to explore whether the state should play a larger role in ensuring “resource adequacy,” which simply means having enough electricity to meet overall customer demand at any…
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