Posted by Josh Mogerman in Solving Global Warming
Ahh, the Canadian tar sands industry. Unhappy that the dirty oil criticisms of their industry are sticking they are to once again change the name of their product rather than fix it. If it wasn't so irritating, it would be...continued→
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Last year I had a chance to wander into the Wind River region of Wyoming with journalists, academics, and NRDC experts interested in getting to the bottom of the climate catastrophe that is unfolding in the region's whitebark pine...continued→
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
I really enjoy reading Rocky Barker's columns and blog at the Idaho Statesman. I don't always agree with what he says, but he is a thoughtful and genuine voice that helps me cut through the shouting on both sides of...continued→
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Solving Global Warming
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch noted that a "veritable who's who of climate change skeptics and contrarians" will be gathering at a convention in Springfield, MO today. Speaking as a one-time resident of the Show-Me State, that news is disappointing enough---but...continued→
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Solving Global Warming
In an odd quirk of timing, two competing visions of the Canadian tar sands hit the media today. I was pleased to see the announcement that the Society for Environmental Journalists had chosen Andrew Nikiforuk's "Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and...continued→
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Curbing Pollution
"They're coming to get you Barbara..." Those are some of the last words we hear from an unfortunate victim early in "Night of the Living Dead." With creeping doom and danger sprouting up all around them, a pair of siblings...continued→
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Like millions of Americans, I spent a chunk of my holiday weekend in front of a barbecue grill. And I might have unintentionally opened myself up to a growing international crime spree in the process... Swine flu has been...continued→
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
We got word that state and federal wildlife officials were unnecessarily hazing America's last genetically wild buffalo off of a peninsula west of Yellowstone National Park in Montana yesterday. I started pulling together a blog posting and about halfway...continued→
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Solving Global Warming
Last week I had the opportunity to take a road trip to northwest Indiana. Riding shotgun was Canadian journalist and author, Andrew Nikiforuk, whose book Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent is selling like hotcakes in...continued→
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Earth Day gets all the pub, but I've always been kinda partial to Arbor Day. I mean, really, how often do you even think about trees? This Arbor Day, features a couple of interesting tree stories: In the journal...continued→
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Solving Global Warming
A friend who works for the monetary authority of a Caribbean island nation was in Chicago for an international money conference recently. Representatives from banking centers around the world had converged to discuss a crushing array of concerns---but these folks...continued→
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Sometimes the little critters we overlook are also some of the most amazing... This week NRDC renews a long-standing fight over a somewhat blah-looking little fish called the tidewater goby. Despite its drab appearance, the quirky swimmer exemplifies why the...continued→
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
It takes some serious guts for a public figure to challenge the anti-wolf lobby in Wyoming. And with the imminent release of the Department of Interior's new wolf rules that remove endangered species protections from the packs in Montana and...continued→
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
One of America's most iconic engineering marvels is being threatened by an advancing army. This is not a military threat---though it is foreign. Quagga and zebra mussels, the twin scourges of the Great Lakes are marching west...well, actually hitchhiking. ...continued→
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Moving Beyond Oil
It was a sweet day for President Obama in Canada. As he savored a "beaver tail" in Ottawa, security seemed the farthest issue from his mind. No, this is not an endangered species post...apparently there is a rockin' bakery...continued→
