by Beth Holmes | Jun 27, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Sustainability
Groundwater rights ruling shakes up Nevada during the state’s long drought. Nevada, like the rest of the American West, is more than twenty years into a megadrought. Climatologists say the area has become much warmer and drier in recent decades than in the...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 20, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
Sriracha hot sauce will be thin on the shelves, as chili pepper crops fail in unseasonable conditions. Back in April, Huy Fong Foods, the company that makes the wildly popular sriracha sauce, sent out a letter announcing that they were struggling to get chili peppers...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 13, 2022 | Conservation, Sustainability, Uncategorized
Three oil companies have canceled their leases to take oil from Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), according to the Bureau of Land Management. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a 19.3-million-acre area that occupies the entire northeastern...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 6, 2022 | Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
Manatees are starving in Florida waters, only five years after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) took them off the Endangered Species list. In the 1960s and ’70s, the West Indian manatee, which is native to Florida waters, was down to only a few hundred...
by Beth Holmes | May 30, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Information, Sustainability
A 24 year sentence has been given to the man who started the Dolan fire in Big Sur in 2020, which destroyed 125,000 acres and killed 12 endangered condors. The Dolan fire began on an illegal cannabis farm in Monterey County on August 18, only a mile south of the Big...
by Beth Holmes | May 23, 2022 | Conservation, Sustainability
Crested larks mean some Germans have to keep their cats indoors through the summer. As we all should. Crested larks are songbirds found in most of Europe and Asia, and in recent decades, their numbers have been in serious declined. As of 1993, they’re considered...
