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 13, 2023 | Business, Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
A sperm whale has been found dead on a beach in Hawaii, its body full of hundreds of pounds of ingested plastic waste. Saturday, January 28th, a 56-foot sperm whale was found deceased on a reef of Kauai. Scientists, who rarely get to study the deep ocean predators,...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 6, 2023 | Conservation, Resources, Sustainability
Logging roads are banned in the Tongass National Forest as the Biden administration restores protections cut by former President Trump. Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is the largest national forest in America, and has been the center of decades of fighting...
by Beth Holmes | Jan 11, 2023 | Conservation, Profiles, Sustainability
Marina Silva, Amazon activist, is President-elect Lula’s choice for Brazil’s new minister of environment. Marina Silva grew up in the Amazon, working as child labor on a rubber plantation. As an adult, she has worked hard to undo the damage of the kind of...
