Cool Green Science

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Cool Green Science staff writers and contributors won 10 awards from the Outdoor Writers Association of America. The post 10 Writing Awards for Cool Green Science appeared first on Cool Green Science.

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Cool Green Science

MAY 15, 2022

The post A New Database to Drive Seabird Conservation appeared first on Cool Green Science. A new database will help protect the world's most imperiled group of birds.

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Cool Green Science

JULY 24, 2022

A new policy tool can help ensure coral reef conservation better meets local people’s needs and preferences. The post New Policy Tool Could Represent Sea Change for Coral Reef Conservation appeared first on Cool Green Science.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Ocean Conservancy: Can you give us an overview of your current research? It’s a cool field to study because there are so many facets and rabbit holes that you can go down to get a holistic picture of how evolutionary forces produce skull shape. Every fish is cool.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Deanna Phillips ’23, who interned with DEP this past summer in the permitting department, remarked, “Actually seeing a permit come to life at my own school is really cool.” Partners on site for the work were the Chesapeake Conservancy , the Merrill W. Reprinted from the Susquehanna University website.)

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Cool Green Science

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

This year, wildfire affected dozens of Nature Conservancy preserves. The post When Wildfire Comes to Nature Conservancy Preserves appeared first on Cool Green Science. How did they fare?

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Cool Green Science

MARCH 20, 2022

The post Giant Redfin: Conserving South Africa’s Native Fish appeared first on Cool Green Science. Meet the overlooked South African wildlife: native fish. Can invasive species removal offer hope?

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Cool Green Science

APRIL 16, 2023

The post Women Lead Leatherback Conservation in the Solomon Islands appeared first on Cool Green Science. Changing cultural perceptions around gender can’t work without the support of the local communities.

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Cool Green Science

MAY 10, 2022

The post Seeing the Forest for the Deer: Alaskan Scientists Harness Big Data for Conservation appeared first on Cool Green Science. Some fear Sitka black-tailed deer populations are facing a crash. Can big data help?

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Cool Green Science

JUNE 18, 2023

This year on World Tuna Day, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Hawai‘i and Palmyra announces the expansion of the first drifting […] The post The Nature Conservancy Announces Expansion of First dFAD Partnership appeared first on Cool Green Science.

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Cool Green Science

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The post Witches’ Broom and the Conservation of “Ugly” appeared first on Cool Green Science. Should we kill trees because they’re ugly? At one point, conservationists did.

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Cool Green Science

MARCH 14, 2023

The post Lifting All Boats: Six Steps to Enhancing Equity in Marine Conservation appeared first on Cool Green Science. How can we protect fragile ocean ecosystems while also preserving the cultural and economic lifeways of the people who depend on them?

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Washington Nature

AUGUST 9, 2023

More than 60 community members came together last week under bright blue skies to celebrate the Washington Cascades Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) Project. See map below for on overview of this long-term conservation effort. Forest Service; Mike Stevens, The Nature Conservancy; Robert Sanchez, U.S.

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Cool Green Science

MARCH 3, 2022

But often, we are not involved in… The post Gender-Based Violence Is a Conservation Issue: How Do We Respond? appeared first on Cool Green Science. We depend on a healthy environment to put food on the table, and to generate income for to pay for school fees.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2024

On March 1, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn visited Reading to highlight grants available through the Community Conservation Partnership Program to plant trees in underserved cities and towns across the Commonwealth. Planting trees helps the planet -- and helps people. million from the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2023

The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy’s Watershed Conservation Program was awarded the U.S. Forest Service’s Partnership Award for the Conservancy’s long standing watershed work in the Allegheny National Forest and the Allegheny Watershed Improvement Needs (WINs) Coalition. Click Here to see more photos accompanying this article.

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Washington Nature

JUNE 1, 2021

There’s a through line connecting academia, the Northwest Museum of Art, dirt, X-rays, economics, racial equity, conservation and science (to name but just a few), and that through line exists because of a collaborative partnership here in Washington state. Students are getting training on how to be practical, real conservation scientists.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

DECEMBER 8, 2023

More than a year later , this once-in-a-generation investment approximately doubled the funding available for the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) core conservation programs. Keeping nitrous oxide out of the atmosphere is not the only conservation contribution of practices like these, though.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2023

On January 11, the Sand County Foundation announced Flinchbaugh’s Orchard & Farm in Hellam, York County is the 2022 recipient of the Pennsylvania Leopold Conservation Award. Flinchbaugh Farm When it comes to conservation and commerce, Flinchbaugh’s Orchard & Farm is an agricultural showcase.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) invested billions of dollars in working lands conservation programs, making more money available to all farmers and for all conservation activities. This leaves dramatically more Farm Bill funding available to meet farmer demand for all other conservation activities.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Rooftop cooling towers play a major role in fostering and spreading Legionella bacteria. Many factors could explain these outcomes: changing weather and temperature patterns, aging infrastructure and populations, more attentive testing, and water and energy conservation. An aerial view of New York City.

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Washington Nature

APRIL 8, 2024

by Maia Murphy-Williams and Anna Kottkamp-Hoard An American black bear ( Ursus americanus ) wades into a forested pool fed by a freshwater spring, taking a chance to cool off on a warm September afternoon. Motion-activated wildlife cameras allow us to observe a moment in time and space, like that of a bear stopping off to cool down.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

On February 16, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources announced it will hold a February 29 public information meeting to unveil the initial conceptual ecological restoration and site improvement considerations for Susquehanna Riverlands State Park in York County. The meeting is scheduled for 6:00 p.m., Wrightsville, PA 17368.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In an unchanging climate, the random fluctuations would lead to warming in some parts of the world and cooling in others. In a world with just random local fluctuations but no climate change, about half the weather stations would show a (more or less significant) warming, the other half a cooling. It’s not hard to understand.

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2024

It was a very cool experience to host the panelist discussion and see the audience so eager to ask questions and the panelists so excited to answer,” Feinberg said. “My a smaller brewery, is focusing on water conservation. My job as host was so easy because they all had so much to say.” Gilded Goat Co.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This means that for an indefinite amount of time—depending on the cause of the outage —a home can go without electricity for lighting, heating, cooling and other needs that people depend on every day. Lastly, this household took steps to make sure it conserves as much of that harnessed power as possible by making the home energy efficient.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 26, 2022

The protection of this parcel and adjacent acquisitions currently in progress will deliver a host of environmental benefits that will further enhance the neighborhood including improved air and water quality, stormwater absorption, sound buffering, urban cooling, and wildlife habitat protection.

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Cool Green Science

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Bird banding has become one of the most useful tactics in bird conservation. The post An Introduction to Bird Banding appeared first on Cool Green Science. Here’s what you need to know.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

For her conservation and community building work, Huling was presented a Mira Lloyd Dock Partnership Diversity Award , by the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership , coordinated by CBF. Living in a row home, you are nestled between two homes, so you shared the cost of heating and these window breezeways provided cooling.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 13, 2022

Representatives from The Adams County Office of Planning and Development , the Watershed Alliance of Adams County , Adams County Trout Unlimited , the Fish and Boat Commission, and the Land Conservancy of Adams County were there. He informed them that the Cooperative intended to sell some land in Butler Township.

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Cool Green Science

MARCH 21, 2023

What role do they play in our conservation conversations? The post In These Cheatgrass-Infested Hills appeared first on Cool Green Science. How do we approach degraded lands? How do we value them? And does it matter them?

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Cool Green Science

APRIL 4, 2022

Reading about nature and conservation doesn’t have to be a chore, as these 6 books demonstrate. The post Earth Month Book Review 2022 appeared first on Cool Green Science.

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Cool Green Science

MARCH 2, 2022

A story of resilience, recovery, Big Data and R programming for conservation. The post What’s Left, Not Lost: A Story of Recovery and the Evolution of a New Shiny App appeared first on Cool Green Science. Where's there's a will, there's a web app.

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Cool Green Science

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Twenty years of conservation writing, and a creek runs through it. The post Moose in the Morning: 20 Years of Silver Creek appeared first on Cool Green Science.

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Washington Nature

MAY 2, 2023

by Ailene Ettinger, Quantitative Ecologist We know trees and green spaces support cooling in our cities, but what is the impact of individual street trees? Thus, planting more trees in areas where there are none is likely to lead to cooling in those locations. Illustration: Erica Sloniker The Nature Conservancy.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2021

Conservation Leadership NewsClips: -- Inquirer: Wharton Professor Running For U.S. Steel Irvin Plant: 2 Juvenile Bald Eagles Take Playful Flights -- TribLive: New Leechburg Angling Club Promotes Fishing On Kiski River, Its Tributaries Visit the PA Environment Digest website to learn more.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The grid needs electricity most during extreme temperatures so that we can all stay reasonably cool during sweltering heat waves and reasonably warm during frigid cold winter storms. Further, gas plants that require cooling , like gas steam and combined cycle plants, are cooled less efficiently in high temperatures.

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