US Promises Stewardship and Climate Change As Top Priorities for Arctic
When the US Chairs the Arctic Council next year, it promises an about face from Canada's term.
Three Documentaries for You: Urban Farming, Big Hydro, and Water
PBS shows the growth in urban farming; Damocracy on the problems of big dams; and Watermark, on the world's relationship with water.
So Sad: African Lions on the Endangered Species List
It's even hard to be King of the Jungle these days.
Update: GMO Labels On the Ballot In Oregon, Colorado
The latest on the money pouring in to make sure voters don't approve GMO labels.
Get Out There And Lay Some Compost!
Compost applied to 25% of California's grazing land would absorb 75% of the state's emissions!
South Miami Wants to Secede from Florida Over Climate Change
Already drowning, South Miami voted to break Florida into two states, one of which takes climate change seriously.
A Conservation Story: Restoring Chesapeake Bay
This story illuminates the drama that enfolds when groups try to clean up the environment. In this case, it’s about Chesapeake Bay – the largest estuary in the US – a project that’s spanned decades and is nowhere near done. Once known for its abundant shellfish and fisheries, pollution from agriculture, industry and housing developments has resulted in dead zones where there’s too little oxygen to support life. Since 1983, voluntary measures failed to meet the goal of taking the Bay off the "impaired" list by 2010. Deadline after deadline for improved water quality was missed. Time to try a different tactic. It begins with the Clean Water Act which passed in 1972 with a goal of restoring "fishable, swimmable" waters by 1985 – a deadline that remains unmet to this day. To get EPA to do its job, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation sued in 2009 and 18 months later, they settled. Under a binding agreement, EPA promised to develop science-based pollution limits for the Bay and the rivers and streams that feed into it. It delivered on time and surrounding states responded by creating plans to meet those limits with milestones in 2017 and a hard deadline of 2025. […]
Living Breakwaters Wins 2014 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award
The project is being implemented in Staten Island, NY with $60 million from the federal Sandy recovery package.
Brazil Protects 1.65 Million Acres in Tough Re-Election Campaign
Brazil's President will probably win a second term but her environmental policies remain more than controversial.
The Ebola-Deforestation Connection
As the forests disappeared so did the buffer that separates humans from animals and the pathogens they harbor.
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