With the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project, the state is rebuilding wetlands to help keep up with rising sea levels and protect coastal communities
In today's fast-paced world, students are learning in different ways and places. As we recover from the pandemic, we have a unique opportunity to come together around bold and common solutions to ensure that the classroom of 2050 doesn't look like the classroom of the past.
The United States government has committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% by 2030 and to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Meeting these targets will require transformation in all sectors of society,
Senior Environment Program Officer Morgan Snyder speaks with Navajo Nation member Heather Tanana, who leads the Universal Access to Clean Water for Tribal Communities Project, about the water challenges and opportunities facing tribal nations.
For over a century, American policymakers have worked to implement policies that conserve natural resources and protect the environment, from Theodore Roosevelt’s efforts to establish national parks and the measures enacted in the wake of the Dust Bowl all the way to the efforts of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. But simply passing an environmental policy is not the end goal of these efforts—the end goal is protecting natural resources and the planet in the long run. In order to do that, multiple conditions need to be satisfied. A policy must pass, it must be signed, it must be enacted, and it must last.
