Tag: Featured
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Earth-Friendly Diet Campaign Urges Americans to Eat Less Meat
As growing global meat consumption drives accelerating deforestation, drought and other threats to endangered species, the Center for Biological Diversity launched a new campaign today urging Americans to “take extinction off your plate.” The campaign says eating less meat is one of the best ways people can reduce their environmental footprint. “Many people don’t realize…
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5 Must-See Documentaries From the 2014 Environmental Film Festival
The 22nd annual Environmental Film Festival in Washington D.C. set records before it even showed one moment of footage. The 13-day event features a record 200 films from 38 countries. Several of them will be world and U.S. premieres, while others have already experienced success at other festivals around the world. The topics are sure…
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Plants of the Colorado Rockies Show Impact of Climate Change
For almost 40 years, field scientists strapped on cross-country skis, shouldered backpacks with supplies and set out over three miles of snow and rocks to a field station near a meadow high in the Rocky Mountains as soon as the snow began melting. Every other day, they counted each flower they found, identified the plant…
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Geoengineering is Not the Answer to Climate Change
Because nature doesn’t always behave the same in a lab, test tube or computer program as it does in the real world, scientists and engineers have come up with ideas that didn’t turn out as expected. DDT was considered a panacea for a range of insect pest issues, from controlling disease to helping farmers. But…
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16 Environmental Groups Implore Obama to End Fracked Gas Exports
The heads of 16 national and regional climate advocacy groups don’t see how exporting fracked and liquefied natural gas (LNG) fits into a climate change agenda. The group says proposals to expand the country’s fracking exports would undermine President Barack Obama’s efforts to battle climate change. They let him know as much in a jointly signed letter…