Browsing: Small Victories

The city of New York recently voted to pass a law that would ban gas in new constructions. Once authorized,…

Following the passage of President Biden’s Infrastructure Law and 2022 appropriations for projects for climate resilience and adaptation, Native American…

Food waste is a prominent driver of climate change due to the number of greenhouse gases that are emitted when…

The giraffe population has been plummeting for 15 years. A 2015 survey found that fewer than 70,000 giraffes remained. Various…

World leaders from nearly 200 countries have united to tackle plastic pollution. Last Wednesday, countries from the United Nations agreed…

In the last decade, there has been rapid wind and solar energy growth, which could help to limit global warming…

Tasmania has reduced its carbon dioxide emissions along with increasing its removal of carbon dioxide. This has allowed Tasmania to…

In January 2023, a popular weed-killer by the name of Roundup will no longer be sold. The main ingredient, glyphosate,…

While chick culling of male chicks has been an animal welfare issue for years, the practice still continues in many…

Since the adoption of a new Sustainable Mobility Plan in 2012, the city of Ljubljana has since seen an increase…

The green turtle population is making a comeback after being deemed endangered. Even after the turtle hunt ban in 1968,…

Plastic waste can linger in the environment indefinitely. Honeywell International Inc. has announced its development, with Sacyr SA in Spain,…

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized new requirements on December 20th, 2021 that limit vehicular pollution that contributes to global…

The Global Grad Show is a conference at which graduate students can display their designs of inventions to combat environmental…

In November 2021, the largest environmental restoration project in U.S. history was completed in southern Florida. The project created a 6,300-acre man-made…

Smallholder tea farmers in Yunnan, China, are implementing eco-friendly strategies and promoting agroecology for better-tasting tea with lower management costs.…

Large herbivores can naturally reduce the risk of wildfires, and the need for greater investment in firefighting resources, according to…

Almost 59 million hectares of forest—able to absorb more than the annual CO2 emissions of the United States—have been regrown…

In October 2021, 24 countries pledged to reduce methane emissions by 30% by 2030. Methane has been responsible for about…

With over 150 venues in the United States, Live Nation has incorporated sustainable initiatives to divert the amount of waste…

Norway reaches an environmental milestone as the country reports 9 in 10 automobile purchases are now electric or hybrid. Tesla’s Model…

Every spring, Yosemite toads set out across the alpine meadows of the Sierra Nevada to find a mate. They have…

Beginning in January 2022, plastic packaging for fruits and vegetables will be largely banned in France. Exceptions will be made…

Australia is celebrating its rebounding Bandicoot population after the Eastern Barred Bandicoot was recently removed from its “extinct in the…

Open net salmon farms are terrible for the environment, but Argentina is taking the eco-friendly step of banning fish farms…

This summer leaded gas in cars and trucks came to an end worldwide. A known toxin, lead causes cancer and…

The strange Matamata turtle has a lumpy shell and flat, triangular head like a round point shovel. There is an…

Protecting habitat works! The gorgeous Indigo-winged Parrot, which was first described by scientists in 1911, was thought to be extinct.…

Traffic collisions with wildlife end badly for everyone. The mammals are generally killed and, even if the passengers survive, the…

The gentle pangolin has been under siege for decades, hunted because some believe, entirely without evidence, that its scales cure…

A team lead by the British Antarctic Survey traveled to South Georgia, a biodiverse Antarctic island, to assess the recovery…

Twenty years ago, Conservationists gave Canada’s most endangered mammal, the Vancouver Island marmot, just one year until extinction. And then…

Plastic bags take hundreds of years to biodegrade, contribute to our ocean’s plastic problem and are a danger to marine…

“‘Bee-killing’ pesticide now will not be used on UK sugar beet fields.” Neonicotinoids, pesticides that are dangerous to bees, were…