We all care about the plant and animal communities in our gardens and landscapes. What you may not know is there are simple yet consequential things you can do in … Read more
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Tell Your Members of Congress to be Wildlife Champions this Year!
With a new Congress comes a renewed chance to save America’s vulnerable wildlife and stop the destruction of our wild public lands, healthy waterways and a stable climate. Tell your … Read more
With New Leaders, New Chance to Confront Climate Challenges
Our climate is changing faster than America is moving to solve it. The new leaders we’ve just elected must face that fact. Fortunately, there are solutions available, not only in … Read more
Last Day to Tell the Environmental Protection Agency to Keep the Clean Power Plan!
The Clean Power Plan was meant to be the first step along a path that would lead to substantial carbon emission reductions. The Plan would have been the first ever … Read more
Helping Wildlife With a Carbon Price
The images from 2017’s intense hurricane season are unforgettable, and what they show is devastating: Loss of life. Destruction of property. Many of us were deeply moved as we watched … Read more
Who’s Afraid of Climate, Equity, and Women?
After getting trained as Climate Reality Project leaders as part of Al Gore’s Climate Change movement, two National Wildlife Federation staff members in Seattle wanted to do more than just … Read more
Climate Change: Hurting Wildlife in Our Own Backyards
For far too long, climate change seemed like a distant, impersonal problem. But the unfortunate reality is that many wildlife populations are feeling the effects of climate change now, and … Read more
Save the Wild Things, Save Ourselves
Species throughout our nation – including moose, sea turtles, and polar bears — are in serious jeopardy due to rising temperatures and sea levels, drought, pests, wildfires, and severe storms … Read more
A Slipping World Leader
The Paris Agreement, methane rules, and now the Clean Power Plan— rollbacks on major climate policies are a reoccurring theme since the presidential election. These rollbacks on climate policies represent … Read more
Paris and The West
On the 28th of November, 2015, I boarded a plane in Denver and was headed to Paris for the 21st U.N. climate conference known as COP21. It was slated to … Read more
