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Cover Crops Help Climate, Environment; Most Farmers Reject Them
DES MOINES, Iowa — Called cover crops, they top the list of tasks U.S. farmers are told will build healthy soil, help the environment and fight climate change. Yet after years of incentives and encouragement, Midwest farmers planted cover crops on only about 7% of their land in 2021. That percentage has increased over the…
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How modern living benefits from the knowledge of Indigenous peoples
In many ways, our relationships to nature — to the land, to wildlife, and to plant life — are central to who we are as humans, even if this relationship feels increasingly foreign in a digitized, automated world. When it comes to environmental conservation, Indigenous communities have, for thousands of years, led the way —…
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Groups Challenge State of Alaska Over Flawed Mine Water Permit
HAINES, ALASKA DEISHÚ/LḴÓOT AND JILḴÁAT KWÁAN, AK — Conservation organizations challenged a controversial wastewater discharge permit for the Palmer Project, a proposed multi-metals mine at the Chilkat Watershed’s headwaters on Tuesday. Earthjustice filed an appeal in Alaska Superior Court on behalf of Lynn Canal Conservation, Rivers Without Borders, and the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council seeking…
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E2CCB conservation students tackle lake project
Six junior and senior students rotated daily from Oct. 12 to Oct. 18 to work on the Chautauqua Marina planting project. Hewes Educational Center’s Career and Technical Education students are not only excelling in their academic pursuits but are also actively participating in projects that make a positive impact on the environment. Recently, students enrolled…
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Kids can ‘Create a Watershed Superhero’ poster
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Hurricane? What hurricane? Record year for Loggerheads may link to past conservation efforts
Sea turtle nesting season ended in October and it was a record season for loggerhead sea turtleson Sanibel and Captiva Islands. The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation counted more than a thousand loggerhead nests on the islands. SCCF analyzed data and found that Sanibel is averaging about five times more loggerhead nests compared to the 1970s and…
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Shell Oil’s waterfront facility in R.I. is ‘unprepared for climate risks,’ says environmental group
PROVIDENCE — An environmental group is demanding Shell Oil reveal how involved its corporate headquarters has been in managing its waterfront oil storage terminal in Providence, which the group claims is woefully unprepared for extreme weather, putting the area at risk of a toxic spill. After an unusually wet summer that plagued Rhode Island with…
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Stevens Point conservation group signs easement protecting 240 acres of private land
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (WSAW) – The North Central Conservancy Trust recently signed its latest conservation easement, forever protecting 240 acres of privately owned land. The conservation easement was generously donated by the landowner and is located in southern Portage County. The signing puts NCCT over the milestone of 5,000 acres of permanently protected lands in…
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States Schedule Public Hearings on Atlantic Striped Bass Draft Addendum II
Arlington, VA – The Atlantic coastal states of Maine through Virginia have scheduled hearings to gather public input on Draft Addendum II to Amendment 7 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Striped Bass, which considers management measures designed to support stock rebuilding by reducing fishing mortality to the target in 2024. Some hearings…
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Living on Earth: A Climate Skeptic House Speaker
Air Date: Week of November 3, 2023 Representative Mike Johnson (LA-04) was elected House Speaker in October 2023. (Photo: Office of Speaker Mike Johnson, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain) The new House Speaker, Republican Mike Johnson of Louisiana, has voted for legislation on the environment and some key social issues just 2% of the time, from…
