climate change

Attendees at the Semiconductor Industry Event

Climate Equity Pavilion a First at Semiconductor Industry Event 

Last month, the Climate Equity Collaborative (CEC), co-founded by the National Wildlife Federation, organized a first-of-its-kind pavilion centered on climate equity and social impact at one of the semiconductor industry’s … Read more

Two elk stand in a river, seemingly escaping a wildfire raging behind them.

How Does Wildfire Smoke Affect Wildlife?

Have you noticed the summers getting smokier? If you’ve found yourself coughing more, seeing the sky tinged with an eerie orange, or even just catching the faint scent of burning … Read more

A railroad track is nearly covered by floodwater.

How Climate Disasters are Shaping Our Everyday Lives, and What We Can Do About It

More than nine inches of rain inundated Vermont communities with catastrophic flooding and mudslides across the state and sent rivers to their second-highest levels ever recorded. This is the second … Read more

A black, white, and yellow bird perches on some tall grasses.

Enlisting farms, fields, and forests in the fight against climate change, part 2

Part 2: Biodiversity and ecosystem integrity concerns From forests to fields and from ranches to rooftop gardens, working lands can play a role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In Part … Read more

A tan and brown turtle rests on the ground.

Enlisting farms, fields, and forests in the fight against climate change, part 1

Part 1: Enhancing equity and environmental justice Working lands and the people who steward them are facing dire threats from climate change—but they’re also uniquely poised to take a leadership … Read more

Carbon Recycling: Reduce, Remove, Reuse

Recycling is not a new concept, in fact, it is one that most Americans are very familiar with. Aluminum cans are broken down and recreated into new products, while clothing … Read more

Mexican ballet Folklόrico dancers beneath a rainbow at the 2022 Columbia Heights Bilingual Monarch Festival. Credit: Mayor Amáda Márquez Simula

Celebrating a Milestone for Monarchs: 365 U.S. Cities Take the Mayors’ Monarch Pledge to Protect Our Pollinators!

The Mayors’ Monarch Pledge was introduced in 2015 to provide a framework to engage communities across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to address monarch butterfly decline and the pollinator crisis. … Read more

Students at the Resilient Schools Consortium Community Open House bring messaging to Neptune Avenue in Coney Island. Credit: Alex Nawrocky

Climate Education Program in New York City Provides Hope

RiSC Community Open House: “Coney Island: Past, Present and Future” On June 6, 2023, student teams from eight New York City public schools came together in Coney Island’s Kaiser Park … Read more

A group of pronghorn in a field of grasses.

The 5 Pillars of Responsible & Just Clean Energy Transmission

Electricity allows our communities to function; clean electricity allows our communities to thrive. Shifting the electric grid to clean forms like wind and solar will require a massive buildout of … Read more

6 Claves Sobre la Eliminación de Dióxido de Carbono de la Atmósfera

El Grupo Intergubernamental de Expertos sobre el Cambio Climático de las Naciones Unidas, (IPCC), reitera en su Sexto Informe de Evaluación de marzo de 2023, que será necesario reducir las … Read more