America the Beautiful Act Revealed: The Biden-Harris Quest for Environmental Everything
After President Biden signed an Executive Order earlier this year detailing that federal agencies should work to ensure 30%…
Category: Environment & Impact
Could this Third Heat-Tolerant Coffee Secure the Industry from a Changing Climate?
There are hundreds species of coffee, yet only two have been found that have a desirable taste: Coffea canephora…
Bee-lieve it or Not, Beekeepers Are the Last Defense Between Illegal Deforestation and Amur Tigers
PICTURED: Beekeepers and hunters of Primorye have united to preserve the honey-bearing forests. Photo credit: Evgeny Lepeshkin WWF Russia.…
Meet Your New Interior Secretary: The First Native American Cabinet Secretary
PICTURED: Congresswoman Debra Haaland, or “Crushed Turquoise” of the Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico’s 1st District, captured in the historic…
Santa Fe and Santiago in The Galapagos Get Their Reptiles Back in Big Conservation Wins
PICTURED: Juvenile tortoises released on Santa Fe Island. Photo credit: GTRI. SANTA Fe, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. February 26th, 2021.…
3 Days After Yellowstone: The Real Oldest National Park Turns 100 Today
PICTURED: Pool of hot spring water in Hot Springs National Park. Photo credit: Brandon Rush. CC 3.0. Hot Springs…
Test Drilling for the World’s Last Great Undiscovered Oil Reserve Commences in the Okavango Basin
160 miles upstream from the Okavango Delta, a drilling rig plunges through the sand looking for oil or natural…
Arctic Ocean Filled with Microplastic Pollution from Artificial Textiles
The dominant form of microplastic pollution in the Arctic ocean is bits of artificial textile fibers, a new study…
Global Coffee’s Sustainability Efforts Have Failed — New Report
The most recent Coffee Barometer, a report conducted by various fair trade and human rights organizations like Oxfam and…
Unlike Humans Lions and Snow Leopards Had a Good Year
PICTURED: A rare camera trapped moment of a snow leopard after a successful hunt. Photo credit: Snow Leopard Trust.…
They May Not Reach 6,000 But Thirteen Tiger Range Countries are Increasing Tiger Populations
13 months remain before the deadline arrives of the unparalleled attempt to try and double the numbers of one…
5 State Ballot Wins for Nature this Election Cycle
When Americans lined up to vote in November for their next president of the United States, 5 states also…
Global Warming Has Achieved Self-Sustaining Permafrost Melt
A new scientific model of climate change is demonstrating that zeroing human emissions is only the start of what…
Critical 14,000-Acre Habitat Added to American Largest Growing American Wildlife Reserve
Photo credit: Dennis Lingohr. LEWISTOWN, Montana. August 29th 2019. American Prairie Reserve, one of the nation’s largest and most…
Having Recovered to 6,000 Individuals, DOI Removes Gray Wolves From Endangered Species List
WASHINGTON, D.C. October 29th, 2020. Having gone to the brink of extinction and back, humanity’s most complicated animal relationship,…
With the Help of WWF Russia Wild Persian Leopards May Once Again Roam the Caucasus
Under the auspices of the Russian chapter of the World Wildlife Fund, a pair of Persian leopards, a species…
Island Extermination: An Untold Story of Conservation Success
Story at a glance… While many of the UN’s 2020 Aichi Conservation Targets were missed, controlling invasive species was…
‘Negligible’ say Scientists: COVID-19 Shutdown Unlikely to Affect Climate Change, But What About Animals?
Short term cooling and reductions in emissions resulting from the monumental reductions in motorized transport due to Covid-19 shutdowns…
Russia’s “Bear Islands” Enshrined as a Nature Reserve – Protected Largest Concentration of Dens in Russia
A face of global biodiversity conservation efforts as recognizable as the panda, tiger, and elephant, polar bears are getting…
Uzbekistan Continues to Create Protected Areas Putting it on Track to Reach 2030 Conservation Goals
The Government of Uzbekistan has committed to increase the total protected-areas coverage to 17% of its territory by 2025,…