I met up with Phil Karlin a couple weeks ago to learn all about small, family-owned commercial fishing operations in the New York area.
In 2009, I pledged to wear one little black dress for a year as an exercise in sustainability and a fundraiser. And for the next 365 days, I reinvented my uniform solely using accessories that were either vintage, handmade, reused or donated.
As Cancún ends with environmental issues and policy still on the table, the voice of Sub-Saharan Africa needs to be front and center in the global debate.
What did this harrowing summer teach us and those in the Keys? NRDC helped answer this question in a new report released today, compiling interviews with 11 people who were on the frontlines in the Keys.
For Westerners, the idea of being eaten by an animal is considered the stuff of fantasy and horror films. However, for modern humans of the not-so-distant past, the prospect of being killed and eaten by wild predators was reality.
How exactly do fossil fuels get formed? I know it has to do with organic matter decomposing and getting buried, but what kind of stuff and how does it work?
"I don't want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, 'There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean,'" says actress Angela Kinsey about her involvement in a new series of PSA's for the nonprofit Oceana.
To miss the opportunity to take the pulse of the Gulf through long-term research and monitoring would be to gamble with the Gulf's future and jeopardize the ecological engine that drives our economy.
The climate-change conundrum isn't set by contending ideologies, whose adherents can argue about whether tax cuts create jobs or kill them. Political reality is hard to change, but physics and chemistry are impossible to shift.
Unlike its Republican critics, the EPA looks at both sides of the ledger and usually finds that the monetary value of its regulations' benefits far exceeds the costs.
This is a time of year that invites personal reflection. Big, philosophical questions present themselves, and these are the ones I'd like to share with you.
Fox News has consistently delivered false and misleading information to its viewers about the climate crisis. New leaked emails now suggest that this bias comes directly from the executives responsible for their news coverage.
Getting rid of gestation crates is the most important reform the pork industry could implement at this time.
Who we eat is a serious moral question. When you're eating meat you're eating misery. And, most likely, you're also eating filth and disease.
As of this month the U.S. has fallen behind Romania in the overall performance of our broadband connectivity. Broadband access is a key part of the solution to our addiction to imported oil.
Last week, in the midst of COP16, I caught up with Lord Nicholas Stern at the World Climate Summit.
The full Senate should take up and approve the new START treaty during the end-of-year session. It would be a timely demonstration of how a divided government can still address real threats.
As we head into another winter of discontent in the coalfields, Judy Bonds always gives me a reason to believe in the still small possibility of environmental justice in America.
Comprehension of the broader "STEM" issues -- science, technology, engineering and math --allows me to provide more in-depth and effective counsel to my clients on their sustainability strategies.