Ahhh, the Bush Administration. Today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service announced that they are going to propose new regulatory changes to the Endangered Species Act that will dramatically weaken provisions of...

In the midst of grim financial news and bitter energy battles, I found a brilliant ray of hope. The Nature Conservancy announced it is securing 14,600 acres of prized Adirondack forests and wetlands that will be added to the Adirondack Forest Preserve.

As our nation gets caught up in the frenzy surrounding the two political conventions, I can’t help but think about the role of the individual in all this political machinery.

Kathie Lee Gifford tests viewers on their environmental knowledge on the TODAY Show and Noah Horowitz provides the answers; his appearance was arranged by Jenny Powers [Watch].

It’s been a tough couple of months for the coal industry’s campaign to minimize concerns about global warming and hawk “clean coal.”

The role of science in curbing harmful pollution has received significant play recently. A series of stolen emails has been the subject of climate change debates just as the international community is gearing up for negotiations in Copenhagen despite...

As the thousands of journalists, government officials and so-called “non-governmental organizations” descend on Copenhagen, the temperature is rising around the tar sands issue.  But perhaps the most interesting tar sands development this week happened...

Recently, I wrote about the ecological importance of predators to their ecosystems and why NRDC is concerned with the practices of the predator control program administered by Wildlife Services.  As this agency is part of the US Department of...

The Roan Plateau in western Colorado is a place of deep box canyons, quiet trout streams and expansive meadows that rises 3,500 feet above the Colorado River valley. Home to black bears, cougars, prized elk and deer herds, golden eagles and peregrine...

When President Obama outlined his plan for generating more jobs in America in his speech on Tuesday, he included clean energy initiatives among his top three employment strategies. I applaud the president’s plan. Clean energy programs are a proven...