climate

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A Note to Our Canadian Neighbors: Dirty Mining Doesn’t Pan Out

Last summer confirmed what climate scientists have been telling us for decades:  Extreme climate events are the new normal. Witness Yellowstone, Kentucky, or St. Louis where catastrophic, once-in-a-1000-year flooding events … Read more

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Launch of the Climate Equity Collaborative 

The impacts of climate change are complex, intersectional, and constantly evolving. Everyone is affected.  Over the past decade, we’ve gradually come to terms with life in a changing climate. Extreme … Read more

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Alternative Energy Can’t Move Forward Without These Critical Minerals

The most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report stated that the world is set to reach the 1.5 degrees Celsius increase in the next two decades. Therefore, we must … Read more

Urban Canopies Keep Cities Cool When Temperatures Climb

Cooler streets are good for blue jays too When it comes to addressing unbearable summer heat in urban areas, few investments offer as many benefits as street trees! Urban trees … Read more

Providing Clean Power Means Building New Transmission Lines, Quickly and Responsibly

The message on climate urgency has been delivered loud and clear in recent years. We need to eliminate global climate emissions as quickly as possible. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate … Read more

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Infrastructure is Key: What’s Needed for CCUS Deployment

The latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change found that climate impacts are now widespread and severe in every part of the world. Combined with the use of … Read more

Cautious Optimism

In the months leading up to the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, there was a feeling of urgency to ensure national governments and companies would stay … Read more

Spawning salmon and incredible fall colors at Icicle Creek in central Washington.

Climate, Wildlife, and Justice in the Build Back Better Act

In November 2021, the House of Representatives passed the Build Back Better Act, a sweeping legislative package that would enact a broad range of items including transformational investments in climate … Read more

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What President Biden’s New Climate Goals Mean for Wildlife & Communities

Impacts Seen and Unseen Climate change has impacted wildlife and humans—especially frontline communities that disproportionately experience the harms dealt from climate change globally and domestically. In North America, there are … Read more

waterfowl outside of city, students working on climate education projects.

NYC Students Learn How to Build a Climate Resilient Future

This year—2020—will rank among the hottest in recorded history. Floods, droughts, violent hurricanes and apocalyptic wildfires are ravaging communities and disproportionately threatening already vulnerable human and wildlife populations. Coastal areas … Read more