"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined." -Henry David Thoreau
Antarctica holds a key role in addressing climate change. I traveled there in 2017 on an expedition led by Robert Swan, polar explorer, and his nonprofit, 2041 Foundation. As Rob explains, Antarctica is kind of like earth's pristine memory bank. By preserving Antarctica as a place of science and peace, unowned by any nation, we …
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Follow Maggie's short stories of climate change and conservation. In northeast Cambodia, the two are inextricably intwined.
Re-posted from my Instagram on April 1, 2021: Happy Earth Month! For the next 30 days, I’m gonna post daily #EcoTips, #ClimateStories, and fun #EarthFacts [on my instagram, @mmdewane].Saving the planet isn’t on most people’s agendas and that’s cool (it’s hard enough to think about dinner tomorrow night, let alone think about the planet’s future), but the even …
A conservationist with connections to groups referenced in the Netflix documentary "Seaspiracy" responds to the film.
Protecting pollinators is critical to maintaining healthy ecosystems and human food supply. Bees, for example, pollinate 70 out of the top 100 crops globally. And roughly 1 in 3 bites of food we eat is derived from plants pollinated by bees. Unfortunately, modern pesticides are killing bees. In 1947 there were 6 million honeybee hives …
Biodiversity is a word thrown around by a lot of environmental groups as something really important. What is it, exactly? It’s short for biological diversity, and it refers to the entire variety of life on earth that comprise of all the ecosystems and elements that make the planet “work.” From mushrooms to minke whales, corals …
In my last post I mentioned palm oil. What’s that? It’s an industrial agriculture commodity. Uhh…what? A commodity is typically a raw material or product that is bought and sold. Industrial agriculture refers to large-scale farming. The rationale behind massive monoculture like palm oil is that it’s efficient and can keep pace with the rapidly …
Last year, a study produced by the UN announced that one million species were at risk of extinction under current climate change trajectories and given humans' impact. One year later, an updated study out of the US’s National Academy of Sciences found that initial estimates on mass extinction were conservative. We have only 10-15 years …
One in four living things on the planet are endangered. A significant cause of species becoming endangered is habitat destruction, which is typically at the hands of humans for development of agricultural land, infrastructure, and business or home. In the US, the Endangered Species Act, signed in 1973, was the first law of its kind …
