May 5, 2013
by MoreRecycling
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New research maps how Earth’s myriad climates — and the ecosystems that depend on them — could move from one area to another as global temperatures rise. The approach foresees big changes for one of the planet’s great carbon sponges. Boreal forests w… Continue reading
Share on FacebookJanuary 29, 2013
by Rocky Kistner
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Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC
Up in the pristine Canadian boreal forests and freshwater deltas of Alberta, home to caribou, whooping crane and native communities settled long before European… Continue reading
July 12, 2012
by Rocky Kistner
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Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC
In Canada’s western province of Alberta, Melina Laboucan-Massimo’s community—the Lubicon Lake Nation—has endured a withering toxic tar sands oil assault, an Armag… Continue reading
July 13, 2011
by Frances Beinecke
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Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City Like Americans everywhere, I’ve been sickened and outraged to see 42,000 gallons of toxic crude oil coursing through the Yellowstone River, one of our last wild waterways, vital to fish, farmers and wa… Continue reading
Share on FacebookApril 20, 2011
by John H. Adams
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John H. Adams, Founding Director, New York City Skirting the banks of the Mississippi River in the last few miles before it gives itself over to the Gulf of Mexico, it’s easy to imagine you’re nearing some far end of the Earth.
High tide sw… Continue reading
March 23, 2011
by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. USA Today published an important story about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that would bring tar sands oil from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast. The article outlines the… Continue reading
Share on FacebookDecember 6, 2010
by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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Listening to the discussions in Cancún at the climate negotiations, I wondered what would happen if delegates focused on actions that are undermining reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Perhaps the countries here should take a look at so… Continue reading
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