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Global conservation area coverage substantially exceeds current estimates
Abstract Conservation areas are critical for tackling the global environmental crisis1. These sites are reported as covering 18.5% of the terrestrial realm2 and governments have committed through Global Biodiversity Framework Target 3 to increase this to at least 30% by 2030 (ref. 3). There are concerns that this potential near-doubling of conservation area coverage will negatively affect vulnerable people and over-stretch conservation resources4.
Richards: A lesson in living the dream
In the summer of 2011, I worked as a banquet server at the Vail Marriott — an experience that, unexpectedly, changed the trajectory of my life. Before that season, I had built a growing fitness business that was gaining real momentum. But when the Great Recession hit, the students vanished almost overnight. Around the same time, I took a leap of faith and accepted a management opportunity at the Ritz-Carlton in 2010, believing it would open doors to new possibilities.
Radnor Run raises more than $87,000 for American Lung Association
RADNOR — Frost covered the tips of grass of Encke Park next to the Radnor Township Building early Sunday morning and temperatures started out in the 30s. But the brisk autumn air would soon be accompanied by a sun-drenched sky highlighting the park’s vivid foliage and conditions would prove to be ideal for the hundreds of runners and walkers participating in the American Lung Association’s 45th Annual Radnor Run.
Get ready to lace up those running shoes for Radnor Run Original
RADNOR — Lace up those running shoes. Registration is now open for the 45th Annual Radnor Run on Sunday, Oct. 30, starting in front of the Radnor Township Building. This year’s fundraising goal is $125,000 to support research, advocacy and education for lung diseases, including lung cancer and COVID-19.
Radnor Run finally finds a bright spot for competition
RADNOR — In 2019 the Radnor Run’s runners and walkers got drenched under a continuous heavy downpour. In 2020 the in-person event was postponed due to COVID-19 and went virtual. But on Sunday morning, hundreds of participants once again took to the winding roads of Radnor among vibrant fall foliage and a rain-free bright blue sky.
American Lung Association's annual Radnor Run ready to hit the streets
RADNOR - The American Lung Association in Pennsylvania announces that registration is now open for the Radnor Run and that there is a new location for the Packet Pick-up Party, hosted by IM | Health of Wayne.
The Revenue-Raising Opportunity To Fund Climate and Conservation
Congress is poised to make sweeping investments to address climate change, level the economic playing field, and help the country build back better. The legislative vehicle to make this happen—reconciliation—also presents an opportunity to raise revenue through commonsense reforms that would force polluters, not taxpayers, to pay for cleaning up a legacy of toxic waste from drilling and mining on public lands.
6 Ways To Create Jobs and Solve Climate Change Through Nature-Based Infrastructure
President Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan outlines a strategy for economic recovery that pairs good jobs with a commitment to bold climate action. The proposal ensures that every dollar spent on rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure will “prevent, reduce, and withstand the impacts of the climate crisis”—that each investment made contributes to a low-carbon future.
Charting a New Course for U.S.-Brazil Action on the Amazon
President Joe Biden has a lengthy climate change to-do list: Amid rising global temperatures, more frequent and extreme weather events, and the rapid loss of nature, there is little time to lose. Biden reflected this urgency in the first days of his presidency, in the content of his executive order (EO) on the climate crisis, issued in late January 2021.
Radnor Run to hit the virtual road Oct. 25
RADNOR -- Much like most charity events this year during the pandemic, the 43rd Annual Radnor Run is going virtual. Canceled will be the traditional 5-mile run starting and finishing at the Radnor municipal building where hundreds of runners compete on hilly township roads ablaze with fall foliage.
Radnor Run to hit the virtual road Oct. 25
RADNOR -- Much like most charity events this year during the pandemic, the 43rd Annual Radnor Run is going virtual. Canceled will be the traditional 5-mile run starting and finishing at the Radnor municipal building where hundreds of runners compete on hilly township roads ablaze with fall foliage.
The Plan for a 100 Percent Clean Future Must Include Saving Nature
This issue brief contains a correction. Introduction The planet is facing dual crises: the steep decline of nature and a rapidly changing climate. Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are higher today than at any point previously in human history. At the same time, communities are losing natural areas to development at a rapid rate, and animal and plant species are being pushed to extinction 1,000 times faster than before humans were present.
The Race for Nature
Introduction and summary The rapid and ongoing decline of nature in the United States poses a threat to the health, well-being, and prosperity of every community in the country. The disappearance of natural areas—which occurs at a rate of a football field every 30 seconds—imperils clean air and drinking water supplies. Open lands and healthy waters where families play, fish, hunt, and unwind together are growing increasingly scarce.
Building a 100 Percent Clean Future Can Drive an Additional $8 Billion a Year to Rural Communities
Rural communities face many challenges, and climate change is only making matters worse. Flooding and drought are hitting rural communities hard, causing massive financial losses for farmers, who are also facing low commodity prices and bearing the brunt of an international trade war. And the rural landscape is changing as farmland is being lost to the same development pressures that are contributing to climate change.
Trump’s Energy Policies Put Alaska in the Climate Crosshairs
Since taking office in 2017, the Trump administration has had Alaska’s wild places in its crosshairs. This winter, the administration will attempt to auction off the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, which would have extensive impacts on a pristine ecosystem and the Alaska Native communities that depend on its resources for subsistence.
The Green Squeeze
Introduction and summary To safeguard the clean air, clean drinking water, and food chains that support all life on Earth, scientists recommend protecting at least 30 percent of all lands and oceans by 2030 and, eventually, conserving at least half the planet in a natural condition. By pursuing these ambitious but achievable conservation goals, humanity can still prevent the majority of animals and plants from going extinct.
Radnor Run recognizes lung cancer survivor Denise Zimmerman
RADNOR -- About a year ago, longtime Main Line resident Denise Zimmerman was diagnosed with lung cancer. But that doesn't stop her from living her life. On the morning of Sunday, Oct. 27, she will be among hundreds of others who are lung disease survivors or who know a survivor or who have lost a friend or family member to lung disease at the 42nd Annual Penn Medicine Radnor Run.
After the Fire: Vulnerable Communities Respond and Rebuild
See also: “Before the Fire: Protecting Vulnerable Communities from Wildfire” by Ryan Richards Introduction and summary When the Camp Fire burned through Paradise, California, in November 2018, 85 people lost their lives and more than 18,000 structures were destroyed. Stories from Paradise make clear that the impacts of the fire were not equally borne across the community.
Before the Fire: Protecting Vulnerable Communities From Wildfire
See also: “After the Fire: Vulnerable Communities Respond and Rebuild” by Ryan Richards Introduction and Summary Wildfire has always been a natural feature of the U.S. landscape, especially in the West. But it has become clear in recent years that the combination of a changing climate and more people moving into wilder areas is putting more lives and communities at risk.
Midwestern Floods Are Worsening the Gulf’s Toxic Algae Problem
Last summer, harmful algal blooms (HABs) off the coast of Florida wreaked havoc on the state, sickening beachgoers, costing businesses more than $8 million, and killing sea turtles, manatees, and even a juvenile whale shark. Two years ago, in the Gulf of Mexico, a low-oxygen “dead zone” the size of New Jersey killed fish and crabs and damaged the local seafood industry.
Trump Administration Is Selling Western Wildlife Corridors
On February 9, 2018, the U.S. Department of the Interior released Secretarial Order 3362, a directive intended to align the department's development priorities with the wildlife management and conservation needs of Western states. Now, just one year later, a Center for American Progress analysis reveals significant overlap of Western states' priority habitats and recent U.S. Bureau of Land Management oil and gas leasing.
Trump Administration Is Selling Western Wildlife Corridors to Oil and Gas Industry
On February 9, 2018, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) released Secretarial Order 3362, a directive intended to align the department’s development priorities with the wildlife management and conservation needs of Western states. Now, just one year later, a Center for American Progress analysis reveals significant overlap of Western states’ priority habitats and recent U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil and gas leasing.
Trump Is Creating More Problems When It Comes to Wildfire – InsideSources
Mere hours before the government shutdown began last month, President Trump slipped through an executive order on forest management that will leave communities and forests vulnerable to future wildfires.
Ryan Richards, InsideSources: Trump executive order overlooks cause of catastrophic wildfires
Mere hours before the government shutdown began last month, President Trump slipped through an executive order on forest management that will leave communities and forests vulnerable to future wildfires.
Measuring Conservation Progress in North America
Introduction and summary For more than a century, the United States has been a global leader in conservation. In 1872, it became the first country to establish and protect a national park—Yellowstone—for the benefit and enjoyment of the public.1 Though radical at the time, the idea of conserving nature through the creation of protected areas has become the most powerful, effective, and flexible tool of American conservation policy.
New book highlights their plight at Valley Forge
Gen. George Washington wrote to New York Gov. George Clinton on Feb. 16, 1778, about the desperate need to replenish supplies at Valley Forge:"A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings to a general mutiny or dispersion.
Fraud in the Tongass
This summer, President Donald Trump’s secretary of agriculture, Sonny Perdue, signed a memorandum of understanding with Alaskan officials to rewrite the federal roadless rule that, among other provisions, limits road construction in national forests.
3 Ways the House Farm Bill Would Hurt America’s Land, Water, and Wildlife
America’s farmers and ranchers have a proud tradition of conservation stewardship, working their lands with the goal of passing on their way of life to their children. Over the years, the Farm Bill has provided a strong foundation for farmers, ranchers, and private landowners to use innovative approaches and sustainable practices that benefit the land, water, and wildlife for current and future generations.
Restoring Balance
In the 1920s, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation proposed constructing an enormous dam on the Colorado River that would flood parts of the Grand Canyon and submerge Hualapai tribal lands. At 740 feet high, it would have been the tallest dam in the Western Hemisphere. The proposal, known as Bridge Canyon Dam, was part of a massive expansion of dam and reservoir infrastructure on the once free-flowing rivers of the Western United States in the early 20th century.
Center for American Progress
Introduction and summary The Dust Bowl was a watershed moment in American history—one of the earliest warning signs that the risks of poor environmental management can have spillover effects across society. In the 1930s, millions of tons of valuable soil were blown off the Great Plains, stripping agricultural potential from the region. Thousands of families lost their farms and were left to start over or join mass migrations to more promising parts of the country.
The Endangered Species Act Is Working: State-by-State Fact Sheets - Center for American Progress
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) has been one of the most effective tools used to protect America’s perilously declining wildlife and has helped prevent the extinction of 99 percent of the species under its protection. The 1973 law provides a framework for using science to guide management and reduce the threats of development to threatened species. It has helped Americans be good stewards of our natural heritage for future generations.
Zinke’s public lands sell-off is undermining the “frontline”
As any rancher, logger, guide or hiker can tell you, the public lands that the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management oversee are a big part of Western life.
Green Is Good - Center for American Progress
Bedrock environmental legislation, such as the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act, has helped inspire innovative solutions to complex environmental issues. Today, there is a fast-growing industry that encourages private investors and businesses to work independently or in partnership with public agencies and apply market-based approaches to conservation.
How Trump's Approach to Mexico Could Jeopardize Water Security in the American West – Center for American Progress - via Par4TheCourse-#NotMyPrez - Newsvine
Last month, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto canceled his trip to the White House amid President Donald Trump’s controversial demand that Mexico pay to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. President Trump’s bombastic rhetoric and isolationist policy proposals—from building a border wall to renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA—are threatening to undermine the longstanding U.S.-Mexico relationship.
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