Conservation

Gore: A Tireless Voice From the Wilderness For the Wilderness

 |  Oct 12, 2007

Today the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to address global warming. The National Wildlife Federation asked its staff … Read more

Gore: A tireless voice from the wilderness, for the wilderness

 |  Oct 12, 2007

It’s official – a rumor that Al Gore would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize has become truth today! Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today, along with … Read more

New Poll Challenges Myths about NH Sportsmen

 |  Oct 11, 2007

NWF released a poll of New Hampshire sportsmen this week and hosted a conference on global warming in the state. The majority of New Hampshire’s hunters and anglers say global … Read more

Americans Say: Global Warming is an Election Issue

 |  Oct 11, 2007

A recent poll showed that 40 percent of Americans feel that a candidate’s position on global warming would be extremely important or very important deciding factor in the upcoming presidential … Read more

Global Warming May Make Humidity Worse

 |  Oct 11, 2007

The world isn’t just getting hotter from man-made global warming, it’s getting stickier. The amount of moisture in the air near the surface the stuff that makes hot weather unbearable … Read more

Chesapeake Bay and Global Warming

 |  Oct 6, 2007

I have fond memories of trolling the lower Potomac River on foggy autumn mornings, while nearby watermen "tonged" for oysters and gulls swarmed the skiffs. The Chesapeake Bay has long … Read more

Corps Reform Measures Included in WRDA

 |  Oct 3, 2007

The Water Resources Development Act, which has passed both the House and Senate, includes key reform measures that would help better protect and mitigate for the loss of wetlands and … Read more

Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts

 |  Oct 3, 2007

  The Arctic ice cap shrank so much this summer that waves briefly lapped along two long-imagined Arctic shipping routes, the Northwest Passage over Canada and the Northern Sea Route … Read more

Chesapeake Bay's Habitats Threatened By Global Warming

 |  Oct 3, 2007

NWF’s new report on the impact of global warming on the Chesapeake Bay calls for a major shift in how land is managed in the bay to protect the nation’s … Read more

Dingell stirs debate over carbon tax

 |  Oct 3, 2007

Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) this week threw a new wrinkle into the debate over how the United States should respond to global warming with a proposal to create a new … Read more