Climate Leadership Continues By New York State: Infrastructure Investments, Community Projects, Environmental Conservation, Emmissions Standards
Editor’s note: Last year, the Nature Conservancy held a symposium to discuss the…
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Now Streaming On Prime: Novel Approach To Reducing Climate Change With Soil Microbes, Regenerative Agriculture: Kiss The Ground
Readers may remember our review of Groundswell, the final film in this trilogy of regeneration. …
Bayonne NJ Recognized As Bona Fide “Tree City” By Arbor Day Foundation Due To Prevalence, Centrality Of Trees
Bayonne Earns Tree City USA Recognition from Arbor Day Foundation Editor’s note: For those readers…
New York Senator: Gas Prices Are Rising, School Meals For All Program Would Help Struggling Families
Pass School Meals For All, $10 Billion IRS Payday, Surging Gas Prices, Collective Bargaining Rights DOD,…
Environmental Transformation Totally Possible With Time, Investment: “Groundswell” Must-See Movie – Finally Reversing Human Destruction Of Earth: UPDATED
Editor’s note: See below for our interview with Rebecca Tickell, one of the filmmakers for…
New York Senator: Student Loan Debt Relief, Standing With Unions, Tree Planting Funding For Underserved Communities, UAP Release, Second Ave Subway, Other Updates
Student Loan Debt Relief, Release Bronx Funding, Standing With Unions, 60 Days Of Iran War, Tree…
Environmental Issues Often Don’t Touch Royalty – But England’s King Was Different: Finding Harmony: A Kings Vision Must-See Movie Review
Environmental Issues Tend To Not Touch Royalty – But England’s King Was Different: Finding Harmony:…
NY Gov, Atty Gen: Conservation Win For State Lands With Memorandum of Understanding To Facilitate Quick Preservation
NY Gov, Atty Gen: Conservation Win For State Lands With Memorandum of Understanding To Facilitate…
NJ, VT Senators: Repealing Corporate Welfare For Fossil Fuels Provided For In President Trump’s Budget Bill – End Planet-Destroying Giveaways
Sanders, Omar Introduce Legislation to Repeal Corporate Welfare for Fossil Fuels in Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful…
Staten Island, NYC Politicians Weigh In On Selection Of Pope Leo XIV By Catholic College Of Cardinals
Staten Island, NYC Politicians Weigh In On Selection Of Pope Leo XIV By Catholic College…
In The Bronx, Foliage Planting Along Grand Concourse Brings Beauty To Area During NYCxDesign Festival
In The Bronx, Foliage Planting Along Grand Concourse Brings Beauty To Area During NYCxDesign Festival…
City Parks Foundation Hosts Urban Forest Community Kickoff Event To Engage Community Members In Environmental Change
City Parks Foundation Hosts Urban Forest Community Kickoff Event To Engage Community Members In Environmental…
Staten Island, NYC Politicians Express Their Condolences For Pope Francis After His Passing This Morning
Pope Francis’ Death Announced By Vatican This Morning – Catholics Around The World Mourn We…
Bayonne Meeting Held On Flooding, Climate Issues By Resilient Northeastern NJ
Bayonne: Meeting Held on Flooding and Climate Issues Editor’s note: Staten Islander has previously covered…
NY’s Nature Conservancy Holds Symposium
NY’s Nature Conservancy Holds Symposium Editor’s note: The Nature Conservancy previously discussed some of…
NYCHA Resident Climate Action Program Application Closes Soon
NYCHA Resident Climate Action Program Application Closes Soon Editor’s note: From the program’s website: Resident…
Staten Island Leads Way In New Tree Growth, Followed By Queens, the Bronx
From the original study referenced below, published in Public Library Of Science (PLOS): Spatial patterns…
Pope Francis Attends Interreligious Dialogue, Speaks With Faith Leaders From Judaism, Islam, Christian Denominations
Editor’s note: We previously reported on the Pope’s view of the climate crisis…
Staten Islanders Can Join Community Climate Corps To Build Resilience, Knowledge About Climate Change: Application Due Today
Editor’s note: Last year, several Congress people sent letters to the appropriations committee regarding the…
Disappearing Parks: How Project 2025 Could Decrease Protections For National Monuments, Roll Back Progress In Filling Nature Gap For Low Income Americans
Disappearing Parks: How Project 2025 Would Decrease Protections for Nature Editor’s note: We have previously…
New Executive Director Appointed For Nature Conservancy’s New York Cities Program
Tami Lin-Moges Appointed Director of Nature Conservancy’s New York Cities Program Editor’s note: Staten Islander…
American Corps Program Could Combat Climate Crisis: Local Pols Pen Letter To Appropriators
Ocasio-Cortez, Neguse Lead Letter to Top Appropriators to Combat the Escalating Climate Crisis Through the…
Nature Conservancy: Many Policy Wins, Positive Changes In 2023
Season’s Greetings to you and yours! Writing to share The Nature Conservancy’s 2023 Impact Report….
Paying Landowners For Reforestation Efforts While Allowing Timber Sale Likely Most Effective Climate Change Mitigation
Paying people to replant tropical forests − and letting them harvest the timber − can…
NYPIRG Urges Gov. Hochul To Include “Stop Climate Polluters’ Handouts” Act In State Budget
Climate costs are rising, and New Yorkers will have to pay tens of billions of dollars to…
Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation Laudate Deum Addendum: To All People Of Goodwill On Climate Crisis
APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION LAUDATE DEUM OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS TO ALL PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL ON…
Restoring Old Oil, Gas Wells Could Add To Available Farm Land, Forests, Grassland
Restoring land around abandoned oil and gas wells would free up millions of acres of…
Nature Conservancy Releases New Tree Canopy Maps For Each Borough Of NYC, Part Of Forest For All NYC’s Plan To Increase Canopy Cover
The Nature Conservancy Publishes Fact Sheets on Tree Canopy for Every New York City Council…
New Small Wetlands Protections In NYS May Protect Critical Small Wetlands, Vital To Farms, Homes, Infrastructure
Wetland Wonders: Reforms Included in New York’s Budget Will Help Safeguard These Vital Areas Marshes,…
NOAA Predicts Warmer Weather In North, Wetter South This Winter Season
U.S. Winter Outlook: Wetter South, warmer North Drought improvement likely across the Southeast, Gulf Coast…
Pope Francis Reminds Us All Life Is Interconnected, Stresses Importance Of Wonder To Prevent Self Perception As Ruthless Exploiters, Masters
The pope’s new letter isn’t just an ‘exhortation’ on the environment – for Francis, everything…
Oceans, Rivers Warming More Quickly – Losing Oxygen, Ability To Support Life
As climate change warms rivers, they are running out of breath – and so could…
Global Ocean Temperatures, Glacial Melting Reached Record-Setting Numbers Worldwide – Evidence Of Climate Change: World Meteorological Organization
WMO annual report highlights continuous advance of climate change Geneva, 21 April 2023 (WMO) – From…
Sens. Sanders, Merkley, Markey, Warren Send Letter To Attorney General Urging DOJ To Bring Lawsuits Against Fossil Fuel Companies For Willfull Deception Of Public
Sanders, Markey, Merkley, and Warren Send Letter to Attorney General Urging DOJ to Bring Lawsuits…
Climate Offset Credits In California May Not Help Climate Change, May Have Net Zero Or Negative Effect
Satellites detect no real climate benefit from 10 years of forest carbon offsets in California Redwood…
The Battle To Save The Graniteville Wetland Continues: An Update From Gabriella Velardi Ward of SI Coalition of Wetlands and Forests
The Graniteville Wetland located along South Avenue in Staten Island has been a point of…