Conservation

Engaging with local communities has big salmon and water conservation payoffs

 |  Oct 26, 2012

NWF’s Yakima River salmon and ecosystem project shows how engagement with local communities pays off. Read more

Weekly News Roundup – October 26, 2012

 |  Oct 26, 2012

Want to know what National Wildlife Federation was up to this week? Here is a recap of the week’s NWF news: HISD Celebrates New Collaboration with National Wildlife Federation’s Eco-Schools … Read more

East Coast Faces Monstrous Halloween Hurricane: How is Climate Change Fueling Sandy?

 |  Oct 26, 2012

As Hurricane Sandy barrels up the East Coast, forecasters are giving it nicknames that sound like the title of a disaster movie: Frankenstorm. The Perfect Storm II. All point to … Read more

New Chevron Money Dump as Unprecedented Polluter Cash Flows

 |  Oct 26, 2012

Polluters this election year are doing the equivalent of betting it all.  They’re spending unprecedented amounts of cash to influence the election in the hopes of electing policy makers who will … Read more

Where is the climate debate?: New Hampshire

 |  Oct 26, 2012

The political debates are heating up this fall, like the planet, and yet, while candidates across the country debate issues like the future of Medicare, Afghanistan and the federal deficit, there’s rarely mention of our warming planet, much less a solution offered. Read more

NWF Tells Fox News – Enbridge Pipeline Could Cause Terrible Spill

 |  Oct 25, 2012

When NASDAQ seemed to connect a temporary drop in shares of tar sands pipeline company Enbidge to a new report from NWF, it got the attention of Fox Business News’ … Read more

Jackpine Mine: Shell Oil’s Caribou Killer

,  |  Oct 25, 2012

Shell Oil is pushing hard to expand its Jackpine tar sands mine in northern Alberta, but at what cost? Read more

Offshore Wind Necessary to Combating Climate Change

 |  Oct 24, 2012

This is a guest blog post by Chelsea Harnish, Energy Program Manager for Virginia Conservation Network. The most substantial long-term solution for combating climate change is to power our homes and businesses … Read more

Photo by Todd Powell

Investors Demand Environmental Improvements from Tar Sands Industry

,  |  Oct 23, 2012

Tar sands is a risky business—it is one of the dirtiest fuels on the planet. Just this week, a group of 49 investors with $2 trillion in assets called on Canadian oil … Read more

Hands-On Habitat Volunteers – A Key to the Future of the Environmental Movement

, , ,  |  Oct 22, 2012

The near absence of any discussion of the environment in the presidential debates has led me to think about the state of the U.S. environmental movement. In one sense, conservationists … Read more