Posted by Frances Beinecke in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Climate Week has begun, and I am already inspired by the sense of momentum. From the U.N. Secretary General's Summit on Climate Change on Tuesday to the G20 Summit in Pittsburg at the end of the week, world leaders are...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Reviving the World's Oceans , Solving Global Warming
Last summer, when I traveled through the Arctic Ocean as part of the Aspen Commission on Arctic Climate Change, I was moved by the beauty of the sea, from its steel gray waters to its haunting blue sea ice. As...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Reviving the World's Oceans , Solving Global Warming
In Washington, lawmakers often talk about global warming as something that will affect us sometime in the future. In the Arctic, people don't have that luxury any longer. Life is already changing rapidly for the First Nations people living around...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Reviving the World's Oceans , Solving Global Warming
A year ago, I traveled by ship through the Arctic Ocean, seeing the effects of global warming first hand. Now I have come to Winnipeg for a meeting of the Aspen Commission on Arctic Climate Change. As I listen to...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
Six years ago, the only people I talked to about global warming were other environmentalists. Now it is the top of the agenda for everyone from corporate CEOs to national security hawks. Last week, another sector joined in the growing...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Last Friday, two intrepid explorers finished their trek across some of Greenland's most remote territory. The travelers, Larry Lunt, a member of NRDC's Global Leadership Council, and Alain Hubert, the founder of the International Polar Foundation, set out on this...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
It's been a hard week for polar bears. Last Wednesday, the New York Times reported that scientists and officials from the five Arctic nations concluded that climate change is "the most important long-term threat" to the bears. Now the U.S....continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
In the past few days, I have seen new coverage of the oil and gas boom that is about to hit the Arctic Ocean now that global warming is melting its seas. Just two weeks ago, while I sailed through...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
I just got back from an extraordinary trip to the Arctic North of Norway, and I am left feeling exhilarated and alarmed at the same time. I knew before I went that the Arctic was the epicenter of global warming,...continued→
