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Canada Invests in the Future of Intact Boreal Forests

August 20, 2019 Expert BlogCanadaJennifer Skene

With the announcement of a CAD $175 million commitment to fund 67 conservation initiatives, the Canadian government has invested in a more sustainable, healthier future by protecting some of its treasured landscapes, including in the boreal forest.

That Summer When Climate Change Baked Alaska

August 9, 2019 DispatchAlaskaJeff Turrentine

An Anchorage-based wildlife biologist describes what life is like in our northernmost state—one that’s been dramatically altered by rising temperatures.

Revisiting Nahuelbuta (1 of 2)

August 9, 2019 Expert BlogChileAmanda Maxwell

In honor of this year’s United Nations (UN) International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, environmental anthropologist James J. A. Blair revisits ongoing efforts to restore native forests and protect river ecosystems in the Nahuelbuta Mountains, an integral part of…

Revisiting Nahuelbuta (2 of 2)

August 9, 2019 Expert BlogChileAmanda Maxwell

In honor of this year’s United Nations (UN) International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, environmental anthropologist James J. A. Blair revisits ongoing efforts to restore native forests and protect river ecosystems in the Nahuelbuta Mountains, an integral part of…

IPCC Climate Report: Time to Rethink How We Use Forests

August 8, 2019 Expert BlogInternational, CanadaAnthony Swift, Jennifer Skene

The IPCC Special Report on Lands and Climate highlights the central role global intact forests must place in preventing catastrophic climate change and highlights the need to transform how we use our forests. As a starting place, we must stop…

Latin America’s Air Pollution Impacts Climate and Health

June 5, 2019 Expert BlogChile, Columbia, InternationalAmanda Maxwell

Air pollution is the biggest environmental risk for health in the Americas, according to the World Health Organization. The theme of World Environment Day this year is Air Pollution, and this opportunity to highlight the seriousness of the problem could…

A Journey Through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

March 22, 2019 DispatchArctic, AlaskaClara Chaisson

One of the world’s last pristine wild places is on the front lines of climate change—and threatened by fossil fuel development. These photos speak to why we must fight both.

Unrolling Charmin’s Sustainability Claims

March 12, 2019 Expert BlogCanadaShelley Vinyard, Jennifer Skene

The toilet paper giant, Charmin, makes a lot of claims about its environmental impact and commitments on its website, but how are they really doing?

Army Corps Releases a Slapdash Environmental Review of Alaska’s Pebble Mine

March 1, 2019 Latest NewsAlaskaCourtney Lindwall

But the proposed gold and copper mine’s catastrophic threats to the waterways, salmon, and people of Bristol Bay haven’t changed.

Corporate Honesty and Climate Change: Time to Own Up and Act

February 26, 2019 Expert BlogUnited States, CanadaJosh Axelrod

Corporate commitments are hiding huge volumes of emissions that corporations should be working hard to reduce. America's tissue sector provides a shocking example of just how far the corporate world needs to go to get serious about climate change.

The Desire to Stop Canadian Tar Sands Transcends Borders

January 10, 2019 NRDC in ActionAlberta, Canada, Nebraska, Chicago, IllinoisNicole Greenfield

For more than a decade, NRDC has worked with indigenous communities in Alberta, U.S.-based grassroots groups, and intergovernmental bodies to halt the expansion of dirty tar sands oil.

Will China Save the Planet?

November 27, 2018 NRDC in ActionBeijing, ChinaNicole Greenfield

Barbara Finamore, NRDC’s senior strategic director for Asia, witnessed the birth of China’s clean energy movement. Her new book considers its future.

Crushing Cars Is a Loud, Smelly Business That’s Terrible for Air Quality

October 17, 2018 DispatchChicagoSusan Cosier

So take it somewhere else, says Chicago’s Southeast Side.

Meet the Innu Forester Working to Save Canada’s Boreal Forest

September 28, 2018 DispatchCanadaNicole Greenfield

Valérie Courtois is guiding an indigenous-led conservation strategy for one of the world’s last great forests.

International Day of Indigenous Peoples: Free Nahuelbuta

August 9, 2018 Expert BlogChile, InternationalJames Blair

In the Nahuelbuta Mountains of what is now Chile, Indigenous Mapuche communities offer hopeful lessons for native forest restoration and river protection, based on deep historical relations with the local environment.

Companies Call for Protection of Canada's Boreal Forest

June 25, 2018 Expert BlogCanadaCourtenay Lewis

Seventeen companies with a combined annual revenue of over $35 billion, representing a range of sectors using paper and pulp products, sent a letter to McKenna, Couillard, Notely, and Ford calling for Canada to act to protect boreal caribou and…

Illinois EPA Hosts Public Meetings on Volkswagen Plan

May 29, 2018 Expert BlogIllinoisAloysius Makalinao

In addition to reducing emissions, settlement funds from Volkswagen's cheating scandal can be used to transform Illinois' transportation market by facilitating the transition from dirty gasoline to zero-emission electricity.

She Breathes In Pollution, and Fights It, in the Windy City

May 15, 2018 NRDC in ActionChicago, Illinois, Washington, D.C.Carmen Cusido

NRDC’s Gina Ramirez is helping to bring attention to the wafts of manganese dust that plague her family and neighbors on Chicago’s Southeast Side.

Pebble Mine: Taking the Battle to the Board Room—Again

May 7, 2018 Expert BlogCanadaJoel Reynolds

Bristol Bay Coalition delivers a message of unrelenting opposition in meetings with First Quantum Minerals in Toronto.

A Montana Artist Makes Objects of Beauty Inspired by Natural Disasters

April 11, 2018 PerspectivesMontanaIngrid Abramovitch

From his studio in Bozeman, Richard Parrish maps the impact of climate change in the American West using molten glass.