Emeryville, CA–(ENEWSPF)–November 19, 2010—In a move that ensures the lasting protection of some of California’s most ecologically important landscapes, the state of California today approved a grant to fund the purchase of conservation easements on 62,000 acres of the Tejon Ranch. The $15.8 million grant will establish one of the[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–November 19, 2010.  NOAA announced today that it has awarded about $9.2 million to nine projects throughout the Great Lakes Region that will restore fish habitat by removing dams and barriers, constructing fish passage, restoring wetlands, removing marine debris and invasive species. NOAA received funding from the Environmental Protection[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–November 19, 2010.  October ranked the eighth warmest October on record. The first 10 months of 2010 tied with the same period in 1998 for the warmest combined land and ocean surface temperature on record. The global average land surface temperature for January–October was the second warmest on record[Read More…]

New York, NY–(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2010—Kids around the country are gearing up for the third season of Pennies for the Planet, an environmental education and action campaign to protect wildlife and habitat. Pennies for the Planet is made possible by support from TogetherGreen, an Audubon initiative – in alliance with Toyota.[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—November 18, 2010.  Today, the Sierra Club released a new report, “Toxic Tar Sands: Profiles from the Front Lines,” exposing the risks Americans face from expanded imports of Canada’s dirty tar sands oil. The State Department is currently considering approval for the massive Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2010.  U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu yesterday announced an investment from the Department of Energy of more than $19 million for five projects aimed at optimizing the nation’s electric grid. Collectively, these projects will apply technologies, tools and techniques that are capable of transforming the electric grid[Read More…]

New York, NY–(ENEWSPF)–November 17, 2010—REC Solar, a California-based provider of  solar electric systems, is making a generous and significant gift of renewable energy to the  National Audubon Society’s Corkscrew Sanctuary in Naples, Florida. REC Solar’s donation of materials and installation costs for a 10kW solar electric system comes in recognition[Read More…]

UNITED KINGDOM–(ENEWSPF)–16 November 2010.  Media coverage of the UN’s Copenhagen summit on climate change in 2009 ‘under-reported’ the climate science, according to a new study published by Oxford University’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ). It finds that most journalists reported extensively on ‘the drama and minutiae of[Read More…]

San Francisco—(ENEWSPF)—November 16, 2010.  With the 50th Anniversary of the establishment of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge approaching on December 6, the Sierra Club launched a campaign today calling on President Obama to declare the Arctic Refuge a National Monument. “Americans love the Arctic Refuge. They’ve shown again and again[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–November 16, 2010.  Coral reefs suffered record losses as a consequence of high ocean temperatures in the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean in 2005 according to the most comprehensive documentation of basin-scale bleaching to date. Collaborators from 22 countries report that more than 80 percent of surveyed corals bleached and[Read More…]