A federal judge in a U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California vacated a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to dredge and fill salt ponds in Redwood City, a town on the San Francisco Bay, as the AP reported. The judge in the case, William Alsup, determined on Monday that […]
By Ajit Niranjan Leaders from across the world have promised to turn environmental degradation around and put nature on the path to recovery within a decade. “We are in a state of planetary emergency,” the 65 leaders, who include German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, wrote ahead of a UN biodiversity […]
Between 2000 and 2013, Earth lost an area of undisturbed ecosystems roughly the size of Mexico. That’s the mind-melting finding of a new study published in One Earth Friday, and the researchers say it has “profound implications” for global biodiversity and for humans who rely on natural resources. “We were expecting there to be high […]
By Jazmin Murphy Whenever you talk about race relations here in so-called “America,” Indigenous communities [are] always the last ones on the rung,” says Wanbli Wiyan Ka’win (Eagle Feather Woman), also known as Joye Braun, a front-line community organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network who fought against the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. In […]
In 2010, representatives of 196 countries met in Japan and agreed to 20 targets to protect Earth’s imperiled biodiversity by 2020. That year has come, and not a single target has been met, according to a major UN assessment released Tuesday, as CNN reported. “Many good things are happening around the world and these should […]
The Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau are a tribe of less than 300 people in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest who first came into contact with people outside their community in the early 1980s, according to the Povos Indigenas No Brasil. While they still maintain many of their tribal ways, they and other tribes have recently begun using modern drones […]
A study published in Conservation Letters Wednesday found that efforts to protect endangered species of birds and mammals had saved at least 28 of them from extinction since 1993. “We usually hear bad stories about the biodiversity crisis and there is no doubt that we are facing an unprecedented loss in biodiversity through human activity,” […]
Human consumption has led to an unprecedented rate of decline in the world’s wildlife populations, according to the Living Planet Report 2020, a biennial paper put out by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Zoological Society of London. The report found that wildlife populations have fallen by an average of 68 percent in the […]
By Morgan Erickson-Davis As the world heads towards 2021 with COVID-19 still raging overhead, it might be easy to forget about the other global crises. But a new app, debuted today, aims to light the way to a brighter future, showing how we can stop global warming, halt extinctions and prevent pandemics – all in […]
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