To innovate and rapidly scale new solutions to the planet’s biggest challenges, environmentalists are looking towards Silicon Valley By Brian McPeek, President, The Nature Conservancy At the start of each new year, many of us wake up ready and determined to take on a list of resolutions ranging from learning new languages to finally...Read More

By adopting three practices—no-till farming, cover crops and diverse crop rotations—farmers worldwide can help preserve the world’s soils, feed a growing global population, mitigate climate change and protect the environment. This was the key message of a presentation by David Montgomery, professor of geology at the University of Washington, at the Iowa Organic Conference in...Read More

Global carbon emissions may be on the rise and poised to reach an all-time high this year, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t positive climate news to talk about. If you are looking for some uplifting stories about the environment as we close out 2018 and head into the new year, here are six reasons...Read More

A report by Reuters says renewables accounted for a higher percentage of electricity generated in Germany than coal for the first time in 2018. The findings were published in a study by the Fraunhofer Institute. The combined output from solar, wind, biomass, and hydroelectric generation units rose 4.3% last year to a total of 219...Read More