EDF Voices: Ecosystems

We can’t always avoid environmental impacts as our nation develops, but we can effectively and efficiently mitigate these impacts, oftentimes presenting new economic opportunities.

A mix of traditional and innovative farming techniques allow farmers to help the environment while improving their bottom line.

Observations on an experiment designed to mimic the spring floods that historically inundated the Colorado River Delta.

The fourth anniversary of the BP Oil Spill presents an important chance to review what we have learned, and not yet learned, from this tragedy, and what those lessons might mean for the future of the Gulf.

With more pulse flows restoring rivers, we just might be able to meet human needs for food, water and infrastructure in ways that leave the next generation a better, more productive ecosystem.

After decades of hard work between U.S. and Mexican policymakers, water agencies and conservation groups, water pulses through the Colorado River toward the sea.

A firsthand account of the "pulse flow" - an effort with Mexico to temporarily release water to restore the Colorado River Delta.

As oil spill contaminants enter Galveston Bay food chains our concerns turn to how these animals are affected in the short and long term, and whether or not seafood species that live there could constitute a human health risk in the future.

Like many species across the American West, the lesser prairie-chicken requires vast habitat to survive, but it competes for territory with energy production and agriculture. Habitat exchanges offer a viable solution.

Water from the Colorado River will literally pulse through the U.S. - Mexico border as a sign to the rest of the world of what we can accomplish through cooperation between nations.