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Conservation
Congress Must Remember its History and Value Clean Air
Over 17,000 NWF Action Fund supporters have spoken up to defend polar bears against big polluters in the fight to hold Big Oil and corporate polluters accountable, curb global warming … Read more
Media’s Coverage of Climate & Extreme Weather: Partly Cloudy
Global warming’s impact on extreme weather is coming into focus – but media’s reporting on the issue is sometimes cloudy. Read more
Uncovering the Secret in the Sand – Buried Oil Remains After Cleanup
Many of the oil-fouled beaches along the Gulf coast and barrier islands have been scoured, scraped, raked and filtered clean. Tourist beaches and beaches in front of high-rise condominiums along the … Read more
Video – People from all over the Great Lakes basin fear Asian carp will storm the lakes
Chicago may be ground zero for the battle to keep Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes, but people around the sprawling Great Lakes basin are worried about the invasive … Read more
Clean Car Future in Detroit
by Danielle Korpalski and Frank Szollosi, reporting from the North American International Auto Show. Three things you can count on at a big car show in Detroit: big engines, bright lights, … Read more
Video – Veteran Lake Erie angler urges swift action to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes
The federal government is holding a series of hearings on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ plan for keeping Asian carp out of the Great Lakes. I was at the … Read more
Bird of the Week: Bald Eagle
National symbol of the United States, the bald eagle also is an extraordinary conservation success story. Some wildlife experts estimate that when the first Europeans arrived on the continent, between 250,000 … Read more
Cleveland area residents demand feds take urgent action to keep Asian carp from storming Lake Erie
Federal officials who are soliciting public comment on a study of how to keep Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes got an earful Thursday from Cleveland-area residents. Their message … Read more
