Climate change threatens the air you breathe by fueling smog and ragweed pollen. About 4 in 10 Americans—nearly 127 million—live in areas with both unhealthy smog and ragweed, a new NRDC analysis finds. To avoid making asthma and allergies even…
OverviewInternational, CanadaElly Pepper, Zak Smith, Andrew Wetzler
The international body that oversees commercial trade of endangered species, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), will be meeting in 2013 to decide if the world will protect our last remaining polar bears from trade.
ReportKristi Pullen Fedinick, Mae Wu, Erik D. Olson
America has a drinking water crisis. An NRDC study has found that contaminants that may harm human health are found in tap water in every state in the nation.
OverviewInternational, United States, Virginia, North Carolina, East
When companies cut down and burn trees to make electricity, the result is increased climate-changing carbon dioxide emissions, devastated ecosystems, and displaced wildlife.
The United Nations High-Level Champions for Climate Action and UN Marrakesh Partnership have published a set of global hydrogen principles (to which NRDC had the pleasure of contributing) aimed at redressing the technology’s train tracks toward pathways consistent with 1.5˚C…
