by Beth Holmes | Mar 20, 2023 | Climate Change, Conservation, Green Energy, Sustainability
Decarbonization projects are getting $6 billion in federal funding as the Biden Administration offers grants to pollution-heavy industries. On Wednesday, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced the creation of the Industrial Demonstrations Program, a grant program...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 13, 2023 | Conservation, Sustainability
A unified treaty to protect open ocean biodiversity has been signed by the nations of the UN, for the first time. In 1944, the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea was enacted, protecting international rights at sea and putting into place a few environmental laws,...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 6, 2023 | Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
Columbia University experts are raising their voices about extreme weather, after a too-hot 2022 and wild disasters. According to Radley Horton, a research professor from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, human-induced climate change has raised...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 27, 2023 | Conservation, Sustainability
Deforestation in Brazil has already fallen by over 60% in the first month of President Lula’s administration, according to satellite data. During his first presidency from 2004-2010, president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made preserving natural resources a...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 22, 2023 | Environmental hazards
The train derailment in Ohio should be bigger news than it is, as fish continue to die in a spreading radius around the fire but people are told it’s safe to go home. Late on February 3rd, a freight train belonging to Norfolk Southern derailed in the middle of...
