A host of subnational Green New Deals take action, reaching all the way to the White House ... From over-fishing, to acidification, warming, pollution, and the seas filling with plastic, the world's oceans need our urgent protection ... According to the Environmental Protection Agency, coal ash waste is one of the largest types of industrial waste in the U.S. and a lot of it is seeping into groundwater ... The U.S. is pulling out of the U.N. Paris Climate Agreement, but the country could achieve its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction pledge by phasing out coal as an energy source by 2024, according to recently released research from Portland ... A little bit of good news came about recently when the Senate passed a public lands package including permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund as part of the Natural Resources Management Act (S. 47). Passed 92-to-eight, t ... The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) recently launched its 2019 Dirty Dozen List of companies and entities that facilitate sexual exploitation in the U.S. Four of the companies on the list tout their sustainability programs. Those c ... Although the U.S. pulled out of the Paris climate treaty, cities across the country are doing what they can to tackle climate change. Cities play an important part in limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees ... Some of the latest climate research results reveal troubling signs, underscoring the need to speed up actions to stem the tide of rising greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) ... The U.S. Department of the Interior is inching closer to allowing oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. ... A coalition of more than 250 private, government, academic and non-governmental organizations launch the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment ... More than 8 in 10 young Americans (85%) think that President Donald Trump and his administration could be doing more to support clean energy. Just shy of three-quarters (74%) agree that the Trump administration are creating policies negatively impact the environment ... Maintaining healthy soil helps remove CO2 from the atmosphere and restore the natural carbon cycle... ... President Trump has only been in office for less than two years, but his track record on environmental issues, including climate change, is dismal. While the Trump administration refuses to deal with climate change, cities, states, and businesses ... Gutting regulations is nothing new for the Trump administration, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is not immune. The USDA announced the decision in the spring to withdraw from the Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices (OLPP) ... Activists opposing the Keystone XL pipeline have a new way to fight it using solar panels. ... Land degradation now threatens the lives and livelihoods of 40 percent of world population, some 3 billion people give or take, according to a landmark, three-year, global assessment produced by the UN Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Bio ... Farmers, ecosystems, and societies around the world all benefit by adopting sustainable agroforestry methods. Doing so conserves and enhances soils, water resources and livelihoods while taking in and storing carbon.
... A scientific research team led by NASA is tracking global trends in freshwater availability worldwide in a bid to better understand how these critical natural resources are changing in light of a variety of factors. ... President Trump signed an executive order last year promoting energy independence. The day after, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke issued two orders with the intention of implementing Trump’s executive order. ... Climate Change Could Force 143 Million Across Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America to Migrate Climate change is hereby canceled
A story published last week in Reuters led with the headline “Pentagon strategy document will not include climate change”
... The psychology field may not be the first sector that comes to mind when thinking about how different professionals are working together to preserve the planet. However, what you’re about to read may surprise you ... A new, cross-disciplinary white paper authored by three prominent international climate experts for the US-based Universal Ecological Fund refutes the notion against proactive actions to mitigate and adapt to rapid climate change ... Indiana is going solar.
That may seem an odd thing to declare say about a state that gets 85 percent of its electricity generation from coal. Indeed, coal may be king, but the king is approaching the end of its reign.
... Positive narratives may be our best hope for fostering desperately needed environmental action. Decades of ecological warnings have failed to produce the necessary societal changes ... The water-energy nexus - the fundamental connection between water and energy ... At the national and international level climate action is stalled under the unyielding weight of factionalism and meeting the diverse agenda of a global community. At the personal level the issues of climate change and building a sustainable future ... Innovative, sustainable agriculture practices that enhance soil carbon and biodiversity are paying dividends at a sheep and cattle ranch situated on the border between northern California and northwestern Nevada.

Lani Estill owns Bare Ranch, a ...

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This smacks of little more than mean-spirited vindictiveness. I shall mask my surprise.

Trump administration proposes 11th-hour plan to strip California desert protections https://bit.ly/3quXQJq

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The unintended consequences of pushing natural systems into self-amplifying feedback loops

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The Trump Administration Roll Backs of Migratory Bird Protection Rolling back protections of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act is an example of the corruption and obsequious deference to Big Oil by Trump & Co.

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Roadmap to renewables unites climate and sustainability goals https://phys.org/news/2020-12-roadmap-renewables-climate-sustainability-goals.html #renewables

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The latest The Daily PlanetWatch! http://dailyplanetwatch.earth/?edition_id=94bd93c0-43f6-11eb-a9a9-002590a5ba2d Thanks to @NatureCanada @VoiceOgreenhats @JulianCribb

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