News & More
11 Places to Visit Before They’re Gone
Some of the world’s most beloved travel destinations are also among the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, according to two WWF experts.
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News & More
New Study Reports Antarctica Ice Sheet Instability, but Is It Unstoppable?
The more we travel, the more we understand the connectedness of every spot on the globe. But even if our travels are mostly virtual, today—in our rapidly shrinking world—we know there’s a reason to care about what’s happening in places we may never see for ourselves.
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News & More
Yet Another Study on Climate Change, or Is This One a Game Changer?
You probably looked at the headline above and thought: Another article on climate change, ho-hum. Right? I can tell you that even I had to think hard about writing yet another one, given that climate change is one of my greatest environmental concerns.
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Conservation
It’s Earth Day 2014: What Will Earth Day 2064 Look Like?
It’s been 44 years since Wisconsin’s—as this Wisconsinite is proud to say—Senator Gaylord Nelson inspired the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. Modeled on the antiwar protests of the late 1960s, the original Earth Day began on university campuses as a national teach-in on environmental issues.
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Nature & Wildlife
Will Climate Change Increase Antarctica’s Biodiversity—Or Diminish It?
We’ve all heard the dire predictions about the world’s polar bears: according to the U.S. Geological Survey, two-thirds of them could disappear by 2060, even under moderate projections for shrinking summer sea ice caused by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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Conservation
Antarctica: How Long Can It Remain “Unowned”?
Antarctica is the Earth’s only continent without a native human population, and no one country can claim to own it. Unique in the world, it is a land dedicated to science and all nations. However, that could soon change.
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Conservation
Celebrate Earth Hour on March 29th: 60 Minutes For the Planet
Earth Hour, organized by World Wildlife Fund, was inaugurated in Sydney, Australia in 2007. The hour is a globalized movement uniting people to protect the planet and is symbolized by the one-hour lights off event. This year, Earth Hour takes place on March 29th, from 8:30-9:30 p.m. your local time.
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Nature & Wildlife
A Great Migration: Sandhill Cranes and Their Very Small Plot of Land
As I was driving home from the YMCA yesterday, I saw two sandhill cranes near a small pond that sits along the highway, only about a half-mile from my house. They were my first sandhill crane sightings of 2014.
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Conservation
Fighting the Keystone XL Pipeline: Right Issue or Wrong War?
On January 31, 2014, the State Department released its Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement of the Keystone XL pipeline in an 11-volume publication. The proposed pipeline segment would carry heavy oil from Canada’s tar sands across Nebraska and five other states to refineries in Texas.
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Conservation
A Q-and-A on Climate Change in the Arctic with WWF’s Bryn Baker
The Arctic is often thought of as a remote and distant land – far-enough away that it seems improbable that changes there are having an effect on most of us.
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Conservation
Climate Change and Wildfire Risk: Will Future Forests Be Treeless?
Last fall, in the midst of burned and charred trees left in the wake of Yosemite National Park’s Rim Fire, I participated in, of all things, a wedding. It was the most beautiful wedding I have ever attended.
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Videos
Video: Helping Reindeer Cross a Treacherous Strait
Sometimes, even Santa’s strongest and swiftest assistants need a little help. Reindeer in the Arctic lead a tough existence, depending on a delicate balance of climate, food supplies and predator/prey relationships to maintain their population numbers. A slight deviation in any of these factors can have dire consequences.