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Frogs behind glass bring wild frog declines into focus
August 1, 2013As a parent and conservation scientist, I want my child to grow up in a world with frogs that he can search out in the wild, on his own. -
How can we grow more rice - with less land, water and pollution?
July 31, 2013We're partnering with farmers and NGOs in India to produce more rice in ways that are resilient to climate change and contribute less to it. -
Trial, error and ingenuity: Traditional farm tinkering goes high tech
July 30, 2013Even in an age of high-tech agriculture, farmers' ingenuity and enterprise still plays a major role. -
Standing up to lobbyists who want to derail clean energy
July 26, 2013ALEC and the Heartland Institute’s efforts to roll-back individual state’s renewable energy goals decisively failed in legislatures from West Virginia to Kansas. -
Momentum for restoration started with the BP spill and keeps building
July 25, 2013Three years after the BP spill, work on restoring the Gulf and its fisheries is moving ahead. -
New report from DOE: America's aging energy infrastructure needs an overhaul
July 24, 2013The fundamental design of our grid is the same as when Thomas Edison invented it over 100 years ago, and no longer meets our energy needs. -
Even after three years we can't fully quantify the BP disaster damage
July 23, 2013What we know isn't good, what we don’t know could be worse. -
Are we seeing the first green shoots of a bipartisan climate debate?
July 22, 2013There are signs, small ones, that conservatives are getting ready to have a real debate on climate change. -
Energy and water are fundamentally intertwined, but policies don't reflect that
July 22, 2013Energy is used to secure, deliver, treat and distribute water, while water is used (and often degraded) to develop, process and deliver energy. -
The right way to judge a carbon market (hint: it's not the prices)
July 18, 2013The goal of a carbon market is to make emissions scarce. -
House cuts clean energy funding, dragging down entire community of American innovators
July 17, 2013The House’s embargo on funding for clean energy hurts our footing in the international race towards a new energy economy, and hurts American innovators. -
Public and private efforts align for river herring
July 17, 2013Things are looking up for river herring, thanks to support from environmental groups and government agencies. -
One way or another, we all profit from clean energy
July 16, 2013Investing in clean energy makes a great deal of sense (and cents). -
New voices bring new hope for imperiled water supply
July 16, 2013In the great Colorado River Basin, which sprawls across seven states, the time has come for water managers, conservationists and Native Americans to devise a plan for sharing the region's water. -
Gina McCarthy: A return to bi-partisanship in environmentalism?
July 15, 2013EPA may get a new leader who is comfortable walking on both sides of the political aisle. -
How does your pet angelfish affect coral reefs?
July 11, 2013The global ornamental fishery fills aquariums in millions of homes, but it may be depleting the world's coral reefs. -
Hopeful signs for U.S. and Chinese cooperation on climate change
July 10, 2013A new California-Shenzhen partnership and an agreement to collectively fight dangerous hydrofluorocarbons are cause for optimism. -
A surprising connection between pollution and violent crime
July 10, 2013Who knew? The environmental movement may be one big reason murders in America are at record lows. -
American leadership on climate change
July 9, 2013Charles Krauthammer claimed that the Obama Administration's sensible plan to reduce carbon pollution amounts to "economic suicide." Here's why he's wrong. -
In Antarctica, an up close look at climate change
July 9, 2013On a trip to Antarctica, evidence that even an icebound continent isn't immune to ravages of climate change. -
The oceans are in trouble, but today's graduates can save them
July 3, 2013A commencement address to the Institute for the Environment at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill’s graduating class. -
It's time for Latino leadership on climate change
July 2, 2013When it comes to climate change, the vast majority of Latinos say it's time to do something about it. -
Inspiring and training future (climate) change agents
July 2, 2013I left EDF Climate Corps training with more than just the technical tools for my energy efficiency fellowship at Williams-Sonoma this summer. -
Supreme Court to review decision critical to cleaning up America's air
July 1, 2013The high court has agreed to review a lower court decision that could hamstring EPA in its efforts to clean up our air. -
Latinos in Texas especially vulnerable to impacts of climate change
June 28, 2013The water crisis has reached critical limits in the Rio Grande Valley, where Hispanics account for 90 percent of the population.