by Beth Holmes | May 3, 2021 | Conservation, Sustainability
In the early 1700s, the estimated population of the American bison across North America was more than 60 million. They were a major food source for Native Americans from Alaska to Mexico, from New York to Georgia. Then with the western expansion of the United States...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 26, 2021 | Climate Change, Conservation
For over a thousand years, the blooming of cherry blossoms has been a key event of the year in Japan, celebrated by huge crowds. Celebrated, and recorded. Yasuyuki Aono, a researcher from Osaka Prefecture University, has collected records of the annual sakura (cherry...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 19, 2021 | Climate Change, Conservation, Sustainability
The Klamath Basin watershed, which spans much of the length of the border between Oregon and California, is naturally arid, a long flat expanse which flows from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. But for the past several years, arid has become desiccated. The...
by Admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Conservation, Green Energy, Sustainability
In 2019, Scotland passed an amendment to its 2009 Climate Change (Scotland) Act (CCA), one which placed binding targets on reducing Scotland’s greenhouse gas footprint to net-zero by 2045. And it appears the country is making progress. According to Scottish government...
by Admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Conservation
In the late 1960s, a survey by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) found fewer than 500 breeding pairs of bald eagles in the lower 48 states of the United States. The bald eagle, which has been the national bird of the United States since 1787, nearly went...
by Admin | Mar 22, 2021 | Climate Change, Conservation
In 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Todd Kim to be a judge on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, but his appointment never happened, a casualty of the Republican Senate’s no-progress stance on anything coming from Obama’s White House. Now, he’s been...
