A 6th California county comes out against Newsom’s water-stealing Delta...
The Trinity County Board of Supervisors in Northern California voted ;ast week to oppose the Newsom administration’s Delta Tunnel project. The county joins Sacramento, San Joaquin, Yolo, Solano and...
View ArticleIn the American West, ‘Free Water’ was never really free
The West uses too much water. For such a simple problem, the obvious solution — use less — lies frustratingly out of reach. That inability to change may seem hard to understand, but the root of the...
View ArticleSatellites detect no real climate benefit from 10 years of forest carbon...
Many of the companies promising “net-zero” emissions to protect the climate are relying on vast swaths of forests and what are known as carbon offsets to meet that goal. On paper, carbon offsets appear...
View ArticleWhat are they thinking? PA lifts fracking ban in polluted town of Dimock
Environmental justice advocates cried foul after it was reported that the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is allowing a fracking giant to resume drilling operations in Dimock just...
View ArticleMore than 100 people show at public meeting to protest the salmon-killing...
Gia Moreno of Hood spoke passionately about her commitment to stop the proposed Delta Tunnel at a public meeting hosted by the Delta Counties Coalition and Delta Legislative Caucus at the Willow...
View ArticleCOP15 – International Biodiversity Agreement strengthens climate action
Countries meeting at the UN Biodiversity Conference COP15 in Montreal have reached an agreement that represents a key step in protecting the world’s lands and oceans and bolsters efforts to safeguard...
View ArticleCOP15 – Compromise Global Biodiversity pact gets approved (despite objections...
Over the objections of the Democratic Republic of Congo and frustrations by other African nations, a final draft of The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework was adopted in the early hours of...
View ArticleCOP15 – Indigenous Environmental Network says private interests took over the...
The 15th session of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD) concluded in the early hours on Monday, December 19th with the adoption of the...
View ArticleWeasels, not pandas, should be the poster animal for biodiversity loss
At the United Nations biodiversity conference that opened in Montreal on Dec. 7, 2022, nations came together to create a new global framework for transforming humanity’s relationship with nature. The...
View ArticleCOP15’s Global Biodiversity Framework must advance Indigenous-led...
In the early hours of Dec. 19 — the last day of the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) conference in Montréal — the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted their new...
View ArticleChristmas tree shopping is harder than ever, thanks to climate change and...
If you’re shopping for a live Christmas tree this year, you may have to search harder than in the past. Over the last five years Christmas tree shortages have been reported in many parts of the U.S....
View ArticleCalifornia’s Hoopa Valley Tribe asks for injunction against plan to set aside...
The Hoopa Valley Tribe has asked a federal district court in Fresno for an injunction against the Bureau of Reclamation, the Interior Department agency responsible for restoring Hoopa’s fishery on...
View ArticleDon’t stress about what kind of Christmas tree to buy, but reuse artificial...
Environmentally conscious consumers often ask me whether a real Christmas tree or an artificial one is the more sustainable choice. As a horticulture and forestry researcher, I know this question is...
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