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 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→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
There was good news and bad news for the polar bear yesterday. First, the good: after a three-year legal battle waged by NRDC and the Center for Biological Diversity, the Bush Administration announced that it will protect polar bears as...continued→
