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Help the Polar Bear: Reduce Greenhouse Gases and Reclassify to Endangered

 |  Dec 20, 2010

A new study published in Nature indicates that if we reduce greenhouse gas emissions, polar bears have a better chance of avoiding extinction. Take Action for Polar Bears >> Previous … Read more

Eco-Schools USA: Charting the Course to Excellence

 |  Nov 12, 2010

“Charting the Course to Excellence” was the theme for the 2010 National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Area Conference in Baltimore. NWF’s Jennifer Hammonds attended, and left the conference even more proud to be an educator and a steward of the environment. Read more

NASA and Eco-Schools USA – Get Your Techno On!

,  |  Nov 2, 2010

The inaugural NASA/Eco-Schools USA Climate Change Connections professional development institute is happening this week just outside of Washington, DC. Read more

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NASA and Eco-Schools USA – Forging Climate Change Connections

,  |  Nov 2, 2010

The inaugural NASA/Eco-Schools USA Climate Change Connections professional development institute is happening this week just outside of Washington, DC. Read more

Eco-Schools Checks Out the USA Science and Engineering Festival

,  |  Oct 27, 2010

President Barack Obama recently hosted the White House Science Fair to celebrate winners of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) competitions from across the country. The president has identified STEM … Read more

Top U.S. Scientists Reach Verdict On Climate

 |  May 19, 2010

NWF climate scientist Amanda Staudt, Ph.D., contributes from Washington, D.C. after a briefing National Academy of Sciences.
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Clearing the Air on Climate Science

 |  Mar 9, 2010

What’s critical to understand is that since that 2007 IPCC report, the science has only grown more urgent, the evidence more clear. Read more

Actually, Knowledge Is “The Gas of Life”

 |  Feb 26, 2010

South Dakota’s House passed a resolution calling for “balanced” teaching of global warming in the state’s public schools. The 36 state representatives who supported HCR 1009 believe that “carbon dioxide is not a pollutant…Many scientists refer to carbon dioxide as ‘the gas of life’”. Read more

NWF Scientist Responds to Mooney’s Call to Action

 |  Jan 5, 2010

Chris Mooney, who writes at Discover Magazine’s The Intersection blog, wrote an op-ed in Sunday’s Washington Post titled “On issues like global warming and evolution, scientists need to speak up”: … Read more

Copenhagen: It’s About Wildlife Too

 |  Dec 11, 2009

My colleague Tom Lovejoy, Biodiversity Chair at the Heinz Center and head of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel for Global Environment Facility, has an excellent reminder in his New … Read more