Legal Planet
APRIL 1, 2024
.” — NBC “Hurricanes are getting so intense, scientists propose a Category 6”— Washington Post “Parts of Amazon rainforest could tip toward collapse by 2050, study warns.” – Washington Post “Critical Atlantic Ocean current system is showing early signs of collapse, prompting warning from scientists.” –- CNN “Scientists discover an alarming change in (..)
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
As an archipelago, Indonesia is at the prey of sea level rise. Jakarta, a city of ten million, is only two feet above sea level. Indonesia has the third largest rainforest after Brazil and Congo. It gets relatively attention in the United States. Yet Indonesia’s role in cutting energy emissions is crucial.
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Circle of Blue
AUGUST 11, 2021
HotSpots H2O: Argentina’s Paraná River Drops to 77-Year Low, Resulting in Economic Loss and Wildfires – Stretching over 3,000 miles, the Paraná River supports rainforest diversity, Indigenous ancestral homes, and Argentina’s economy. Now an activist, she campaigns for Indigenous rights – and the water to sustain them. .
Academy of Natural Sciences
JUNE 12, 2023
I loved nature and I always read about places like the Amazon rainforest or Madagascar rainforest and imagined going somewhere like that,” he recalled. Growing up in Philadelphia, Njie was a “city boy” who dreamed about one day traveling abroad to study tropical ecosystems. “I
Environmental Progress
JUNE 29, 2020
I became an environmentalist at 16 when I threw a fundraiser for Rainforest Action Network. In my early 20s I lived in the semi-Amazon doing research with small farmers fighting land invasions. At 26 I helped expose poor conditions at Nike factories in Asia. At 27 I helped save the last unprotected ancient redwoods in California.
A Greener Life
OCTOBER 21, 2021
would still result in a rising sea levels, the bleaching of coral reefs, and an increase in heatwaves, droughts, floods, fiercer storms and other forms of extreme weather, but these would be far less than the extremes associated with a rise of 2C. They found a vast difference between the damage done by 1.5C An increase of 1.5C
Environmental Progress
AUGUST 8, 2020
In a long interview last year, Nepstad was shockingly candid with me about the harms perpetrated by the environmental NGO community in the Amazon, including how their efforts had contributed to the fragmentation of the rainforest. Notably, however, Nepstad did not request any corrections to my article in our conversation, nor has he since.
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