NWF Staff

Global warming starts to divide GOP contenders

While many conservative commentators and editorialists have mocked concerns about climate change, a different reality is emerging among Republican presidential contenders. It is a near-unanimous recognition among the leaders of … Read more

New Poll Challenges Myths about NH Sportsmen

NWF released a poll of New Hampshire sportsmen this week and hosted a conference on global warming in the state. The majority of New Hampshire’s hunters and anglers say global … Read more

Americans Say: Global Warming is an Election Issue

A recent poll showed that 40 percent of Americans feel that a candidate’s position on global warming would be extremely important or very important deciding factor in the upcoming presidential … Read more

Global Warming May Make Humidity Worse

The world isn’t just getting hotter from man-made global warming, it’s getting stickier. The amount of moisture in the air near the surface the stuff that makes hot weather unbearable … Read more

Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts

  The Arctic ice cap shrank so much this summer that waves briefly lapped along two long-imagined Arctic shipping routes, the Northwest Passage over Canada and the Northern Sea Route … Read more

Chesapeake Bay's Habitats Threatened By Global Warming

NWF’s new report on the impact of global warming on the Chesapeake Bay calls for a major shift in how land is managed in the bay to protect the nation’s … Read more

Dingell stirs debate over carbon tax

Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) this week threw a new wrinkle into the debate over how the United States should respond to global warming with a proposal to create a new … Read more

U.S. judge throws out state global-warming suit against automakers

A federal judge in San Francisco has thrown out a lawsuit that the California state attorney general filed against the six largest automakers, in what had been billed as a … Read more

Climate Change Brings Risk of More Extinctions

Around the world, scientists have found that climate change is altering natural ecosystems, making profound changes in the ways that animals live, migrate, eat and grow. Click here for this … Read more

Judge rejects automakers’ bid to scrap state emission rules

State rules on greenhouse gas emissions don’t conflict with federal mileage standards and automakers should be able to develop the technology to meet them, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Click … Read more