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1.5 Degrees of Global Warming—Are We There Yet?

ExplainerUnited States, InternationalMolly Bergen
Here’s where the world stands in its fight against climate change. The end goal remains the same.
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The Supreme Court Ends Chevron Deference—What Now?

ExplainerUnited StatesJeff Turrentine
For one, the ability of federal agencies like the EPA to set rules and enforce environmental protections now shrinks.
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It’s Time to Talk about Climate Anxiety

ExplainerUnited StatesJenny Shalant
Don’t bottle it up—openly acknowledging your climate anxiety and grief gives you the power to heal and move forward.

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Invitation to New Path Forward for the Columbia River Basin

Expert BlogGiulia C.S. Good Stefani
Congressmen Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) recently unveiled a proposed $33 billion Columbia Basin Fund that would, among other aims, safeguard salmon and clean energy, restore the lower Snake River, increase the states’ and Columbia Basin tribes’ resource management authority, and support…

Regenerative Agriculture Part 4: The Benefits

Expert BlogUnited StatesArohi Sharma, Lara Bryant, Ellen Lee, Claire O'Connor
The regenerative agriculture movement is reviving an Indigenous approach to agriculture and flipping the narrative to show how agriculture can help restore ecologies, fight climate change, rebuild relationships, spark economic development, and bring people—consumers AND farmers and ranchers—joy.

Clearing the Air: Indian Cities Fight to Reduce Pollution

Expert BlogIndiaAnjali Jaiswal

NRDC leaders launched and discussed a new issue brief Clearing the Air: Highlights of City Actions to Reduce Air Pollution. The issue brief examines city actions from 10 cities, including Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Kanpur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Patna, Pune…

Pathbreaking Woman Scientist Honored with Postage Stamp

Expert BlogUnited StatesDr. Kim Knowlton, Christina Swanson

Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu, an experimental physicist who, more than 60 years ago and in a field that is still dominated by men, made significant contributions to nuclear physics.

400-Million-Year-Old Creatures on the Brink of Extinction

Expert BlogElizabeth Murdock
Scientists took a close look at how oceanic sharks and rays are faring globally and found that these species have declined by over 70% in the last 50 years, due to a massive, 18-fold increase in fishing pressure on these…

Major Victory in Coalition Push for Renewable Rikers Island

Expert BlogNew York CitySara Imperiale, Eric A. Goldstein

The New York City Council passed two bills that, when signed into law, will mark the beginning of the end for the notorious Rikers Island jail complex and transform the island into a model of green infrastructure and jobs.

The COVID-19 Impacts You May Not See

PerspectivesUnited StatesMaudlyne Ihejirika
In Part Two of our “Pandemic at Work” series, three undocumented immigrants share their struggles for a paycheck, a future, and simply, acknowledgment.

Redefining a Common Future: Air Pollution and Climate Change

Expert BlogAnjali Jaiswal
This week, world leaders gather for the 20th WSDS to discuss pathways to balance the demand for further economic growth with the need for increased climate ambition. NRDC's Mitch Bernard and Frances Beinecke are speaking at this year's summit.

Surfers, Conservationists Launch Campaign to Save the Ocean

Expert BlogLauren Kubiak
One of the most important things we can do to protect the ocean from threats from climate change, overfishing, habitat destruction, industrial activities, and noise, chemical, and plastic pollution—in addition to cutting greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as possible—is to…

With CFC-11 Success Comes a Time to Reflect (Pt.II)

Expert BlogChristina Theodoridi
With success afoot, now’s the time to look at what the CFC-11 story has taught us about the Montreal Protocol, and study in brief its strengths and vulnerabilities. If today’s success holds, the treaty’s response will have been a major…

Emissions of Ozone-Destroying CFC-11 Back on Decline (Pt. I)

Expert BlogChristina Theodoridi
Emissions of CFC-11, a dangerous chemical that harms our planet’s life-protecting ozone layer, are back on the decline after an unexpected spike lasting more than half a decade, two new studies find. The unexpected emissions—which started in 2012 and probably…

NOAA Must Take Emergency Measures to Save Right Whales

Expert BlogDr. Francine Kershaw
The Trump-era proposed rulemaking intended to reduce entanglements of North Atlantic right whales in fishing gear is a death sentence for the species. The Biden administration must take emergency measures to immediately protect the North Atlantic right whales from extinction.

Taking Care of the Food Workers Who Take Care of Us

NRDC in ActionColoradoNicole Greenfield
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the inequities faced by food- and farmworkers who put their health in danger just by coming to work each day. NRDC is pushing to change that.

For a Family in Mexico, a Mission to Protect Monarchs

DispatchMexicoNicole Greenfield
Siblings Joel, Anayeli, and Patricio Moreno see the future of their community and that of the butterflies that migrate annually to the local Cerro Pelón forest as being intimately connected.