By Nivedita Khandekar After decades of concentrating on economic development and insisting that global warming was mainly a problem for the more industrially-developed countries to solve, Indian industry is at last facing up to dangers posed to its own future by climate change. More than 40 organizations — including major industrial corporations such as Tata, […]
A federal judge threw out oil and gas leases on nearly one million acres of public lands that are important habitat for the greater sage grouse, arguing that a Trump administration policy that curtailed public input on the leases was “arbitrary and capricious.” At the start of 2018, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) had […]
By Andy Rowel For those fighting the oil industry, the good news keeps on coming this week. The Norwegian company, Equinor, has announced it is abandoning plans to drill for oil in the highly ecologically sensitive, Great Australian Bight, which has been a battleground between conservationists and the industry for years. Off the country’s southern […]
Some backcountry skiers and snowboarders are not just hitting the slopes. They’re measuring how deep the snow is and sending the data to climate scientists. Listen here: “We gave them GPS and of course they all had avalanche probes in their backpacks,” Wolken says. “And we said, ‘OK, go out and sample as much as […]
A California county has given the green light to what officials say will be part of the largest renewable energy storage facility in the world. The project, which is a partnership between Tesla and Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) won unanimous approval from the Monterey County Planning Commission Wednesday, NBC Bay Area reported. It is […]
Nearly one year after New York became the second state in the nation to pass a ban on grocery store plastic bags — the law is going into effect on Sunday. In accordance with the budge bill passed last year, New York State retailers will be banned from doling out single-use plastic bags, starting on […]
The largest animal on Earth is proving that wildlife protections work. A team led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) recently reported the initial results of three years of expeditions to the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, an important summer feeding ground for whales that became a killing field when the whaling industry discovered it […]
Be it Nina Simone and James Brown for civil rights, Joni Mitchell and Marvin Gaye for the environment, or Jackson Browne and Buffalo Springfield for nuclear disarmament, musicians have long helped push social movements into the limelight. Today, when it comes to the climate movement, that reality is no different. Across generations and genres, musicians […]
By Tara Lohan To be a good wildlife photographer, you need an expertly trained eye. But good ears help, too. Melissa Groo learned that early on. Her unconventional path to become an award-winning wildlife photographer began with listening. Spurred by a deep curiosity about the way animals communicate, she left a job in Ohio focused […]
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