Setting the Record Straight on an Important Piece of Black History By Ben Jealous February 10, 2024 Leadership often runs in the family In this story: racial justice
ICYMI: Valentine From Mercury, Why Blueberries Are Blue, Turning Hurricanes Up to 6 & Time for the Space Umbrella? By Paul Rauber February 9, 2024 Environmental news of the week for busy people In this story: climate change, Roundup, current events
Is a Big Patch of Protected Land Better Than Many Small Patches? By Sofia Quaglia February 8, 2024 Landscape experts have been entrenched in this debate for decades. Now some of them are joining forces to find an answer. In this story: saving wild places, habitat restoration, ecosystems, wildlife
What’s the Greenest Way to Keep Things Cool? By Jessian Choy February 7, 2024 Less-toxic alternatives to gel packs, dry ice, and Styrofoam coolers In this story: buyers' guide, Ms. Green, waste reduction, zero waste
Black History Told Through America’s Public Lands By Lindsey Botts February 6, 2024 Check out these monuments, parks, and sites on your next outdoor adventure In this story: racial justice, inspiring connections outdoors
The Largest Herbarium in Brazil’s Amazon Is Under Threat By Jill Langlois February 5, 2024 A crucial resource for understanding carbon sequestration could go up in flames without necessary investments In this story: forests, international, science
The Twisted Tale of Indianapolis’s White River By Robert Annis February 4, 2024 Once considered one of the most polluted waterways in the nation, the White River has been neglected and abused for 200 years. Can it make a comeback? In this story: clean water, water, rivers, racial justice
The Biden-Harris Administration’s LNG Decision Is the Hope Young People Have Been Waiting For By Ben Jealous February 3, 2024 "Cancer Alley" is just one example of LNG's dirty legacy In this story: Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
Vermont, Other States Push for “Climate Superfund” Bill to Hold Polluting Companies Accountable By Dana Drugmand February 3, 2024 Climate-driven extreme weather is wreaking havoc across the country. Lawmakers want fossil fuel companies to pay. In this story: climate change, environmental law
Too-Wide Cars, Unpopular Protesters, Crabs Prefer Garbage & Baiting Bears With Donuts By Paul Rauber February 2, 2024 Environmental news of the week for busy people In this story: climate change, Roundup, current events
How to Restore a Watershed in the Southwest By Anna Marija Helt February 1, 2024 These community organizers are finding nature knows best when it comes to healing New Mexico’s waterways In this story: rivers, biomass, Community Advocates
How to See Through the Lens of Empathy, Compassion, and Conscience By Jonathan Hahn January 31, 2024 “Seeing It All” lifts up the work of 11 cutting-edge female photographers In this story: photography, gender, women, endangered species, climate change
How to Baffle a Beaver By Diane Selkirk January 30, 2024 A simple trick turns destructive urban pests into valuable ecosystem engineers In this story: wildlife, animals
Online Games Can Deepen Our Attention to Ecology By Kate Fishman January 29, 2024 Some of the best conservation tools embrace the desire to play In this story: wildlife, saving wild places, biomass
The Push to Save the Coho at Dry Creek By Michael Shapiro January 28, 2024 The Warm Springs Dam isn’t coming down anytime soon. Conservationists want to use it to help save salmon. In this story: salmon, fish, sustainability
We Don’t Need to Reinvent Energy Storage for the Renewables Era By Tom Cassauwers January 27, 2024 Decades-old, yet reliable, technologies are making a comeback as batteries for wind and solar power In this story: clean energy, renewable energy
Biden Administration: No New LNG Export Terminals By Juliet Grable January 26, 2024 The White House calls a pause until the climate threat of methane gas is fully evaluated In this story: Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), methane, dirty fuels
ICYMI: Bigfoot or Big Bear, Biden Pauses LNG Terminals, Four New Penguin Colonies & Solar Panels on the Pentagon By Paul Rauber January 26, 2024 Environmental news of the week for busy people In this story: animals, climate change, current events, Roundup
“A Real Bug’s Life” Magnifies Little Lives—and Underscores the Importance of Biodiversity By Christian Thorsberg January 25, 2024 The new National Geographic docuseries explores the itsy-bitsy wonder, and grand importance, of insects In this story: film, insects
The Key to Electric Grid Reliability? Renewables. By Ben Jealous January 24, 2024 Fossil-fuel-reliant utilities are less reliable than they claim In this story: clean energy