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...
by Beth Holmes | May 16, 2022 | Business, Conservation, Sustainability
Brazilian environmental organizations are demanding the U.S. follow through with promised funding for forest protection, and asking that they deal directly with them instead of go through the Brazilian government. Over 330 parties, including environmental and...
