Category: Environment and Conservation

  • More animal welfare or more environmental protection?

    More animal welfare or more environmental protection?

    image:  Prof. Dr. Monika Hartmann, Jeanette Klink-Lehmann and Milan Tatic at the Frankenforst Campus in Vinxel in the Siebengebirge region. view more  Credit: Photo: Volker Lannert/University of Bonn Which sustainability goals do people in Germany find more important: Animal welfare? Or environmental protection? Human health is another one of these competing sustainability goals. A team…

  • 11 Countries Sign Declaration for Global Protection of River Dolphins by 2030

    11 Countries Sign Declaration for Global Protection of River Dolphins by 2030

    The recent devastating news of over 150 (and counting) dolphins found dead in the Amazon in Lake Tefé, Brazil and a record drought from a historic El Niño season has shed new light on the urgent need for international collaboration to prevent further decline of the river dolphin population in the Amazon and across the…

  • Stec weighs in on Legislative Environmental Conservation hearings

    Stec weighs in on Legislative Environmental Conservation hearings

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  • Latin America’s Climate Challenge, and Opportunity

    Latin America’s Climate Challenge, and Opportunity

    This blog is co-authored by Sergio Sánchez, Senior Policy Director of Global Clean Air; Edgar Godoy, Associate Vice President of Jurisdictional Partnerships; Santiago Garcia, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Relationships Manager; and Erica Cunningham, AVP of Latin American Fisheries and Oceans. Scene from the Latin America and the Caribbean Climate Week 2023 opening ceremony. UNclimatechange…

  • The Art Inspiring Generations of Environmental Action

    The Art Inspiring Generations of Environmental Action

    The essence of art lies in its remarkable ability to communicate with individuals in diverse and profound ways. Posters, functioning as an accessible art form, step into the forefront of contemporary social and political issues within a more casual framework. Serving as visual conduits, they distill intricate concepts into vivid imagery resonating across cultural and…

  • Art to Save the Planet

    Art to Save the Planet

    The essence of art lies in its remarkable ability to communicate with individuals in diverse and profound ways. Posters, functioning as an accessible art form, step into the forefront of contemporary social and political issues within a more casual framework. Serving as visual conduits, they distill intricate concepts into vivid imagery resonating across cultural and…

  • Fish and Wildlife Service proposes a sprawling conservation area in the Everglades watershed

    Fish and Wildlife Service proposes a sprawling conservation area in the Everglades watershed

    A new federal proposal calls for creating a conservation area that would span 12 counties in Florida, from the Everglades’ headwaters in the center of the state to sawgrass prairies further south, preserving a region that is home to imperiled species like the Florida panther, the official state animal. The Everglades to Gulf Conservation Area…

  • Getting Ready: A new era of environmental care for the town of York

    Attention to caring for and preserving our beautiful seaside environment is not a new priority for the town of York and its citizens.  In 2008 the York Selectboard signed the US Mayors’ Climate Protection Agreement. (The Mayors Climate Protection Center, founded in 2007 as a subgroup of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, is dedicated to providing…

  • Onondaga County gives more time for comments on Micron’s environmental impacts

    Onondaga County gives more time for comments on Micron’s environmental impacts

    Syracuse, N.Y. — If you have some thoughts on how officials should gauge the environmental impacts of Micron Technology’s proposed chip-making plant in Clay, you have another week to let them know. The Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency has extended the comment period on what is called a scoping document until Oct. 31. The original…

  • Governor Hochul Announces Construction Complete for Series of $10.4 Million Resiliency Projects in Monroe County

    Governor Hochul Announces Construction Complete for Series of $10.4 Million Resiliency Projects in Monroe County

    Governor Kathy Hochul announced today the completion of a series of resiliency projects in the town of Hamlin and town of Webster, Monroe County. Together, the completed projects were awarded nearly $10.4 million in grant funding through the State’s Lake Ontario Resiliency and Economic Development Initiative. Now complete, these REDI projects will help mitigate the…