Conservation

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

Sportsmen and Women Target Congress on Climate Action

 |  Oct 1, 2007

Dozens of hunters and anglers from across the nation descended on Capitol Hill last week, asking their members of Congress to take strong action on climate change. Organized by the … Read more

The Chesapeake Bay and Global Warming

 |  Sep 25, 2007

The National Wildlife Federation just released a report on the impacts of global warming on one of America’s most cherished regions, “The Chesapeake Bay and Global Warming: A Paradise Lost … Read more

Arctic Ice Has Shrunk to Record Low

 |  Sep 20, 2007

New satellite images have shown that Arctic sea ice has shrunk to the smallest size on record, down to 1 million square miles from 1.5 million square miles in 2005. … Read more

Already Seeing the Changes

 |  Sep 19, 2007

The Washington Post reports that the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland is already feeling the affects of climate change. Thousands of acres of wetlands have become encroached by sea … Read more

U.S. judge throws out state global-warming suit against automakers

 |  Sep 18, 2007

A federal judge in San Francisco has thrown out a lawsuit that the California state attorney general filed against the six largest automakers, in what had been billed as a … Read more

Climate Change Brings Risk of More Extinctions

 |  Sep 17, 2007

Around the world, scientists have found that climate change is altering natural ecosystems, making profound changes in the ways that animals live, migrate, eat and grow. Click here for this … Read more

Judge rejects automakers’ bid to scrap state emission rules

 |  Sep 13, 2007

State rules on greenhouse gas emissions don’t conflict with federal mileage standards and automakers should be able to develop the technology to meet them, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Click … Read more