The Living Planet Index (LPI) tracks almost 21,000 populations of vertebrates around the globe: mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians. From 1970 to 2016 there has been a decline of sixty-eight percent of the abundance of living vertebrate species on Earth.

Maryland became the first state to ban single use plastic containers.  Plastics, including polystyrene that many food containers are made of, are polluting the air, land and water with dangerous microscopic particles that persist in the environment without breaking down. 

Joe Biden, Democratic nominee, rolled out his climate action plan in July and environmental groups who have been sounding the alarm over the Climate Crisis were surprised at the planet’s bold, progressive stance. 

Virginia joined five other states, California, Hawaii, New Mexico, New York and Washington that have recently passed laws requiring a transition to 100 % carbon-free energy production by 2050. 

Since October, more than one hundred wildfires have consumed sixteen million acres across Australia, an area the size of Denmark.

The COP 25, Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, met in Madrid from December 2 through 15 to hammer out new agreements for compliance with the goals set forth in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. 

The journal, Science, just published an alarming study that there has been a decline of 29 percent, or 3 billion birds in the United States and Canada since 1970. Experts who have studied bird populations for years were astounded by the new study.  

The United Nations Climate Change Summit held in New York September 21 through 23 began with hopes for commitments by the world’s biggest polluters of dangerous greenhouse gas emissions, including China, the US and India, to announce sharp reductions in emissions to keep global warming below the dangerous threshold of 1.5 C.  But the Summit ended with disappointments.  

The UN Climate Action Summit took place in New York City from September 21^st to 23^rd against a backdrop of massive youth climate strikes around the world, a hoped-for announcement by large industrialized nations of further reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and a planet that is warming at an alarming rate, even exceeding the projections of recent climate studies. 

 In 156 countries, 4 million young climate activists walked out of school to tell the world that the Climate Crisis is destroying the planet and their future and its time to stop talking and start implementing real changes to avoid the worst disasters of a heating world. 

The UN Climate Action Summit is convening over  a three-day-period, September 21st – September 23rd.  

On September 1, 2019 Hurricane Dorian slammed the Bahamas with its devastating category five, 185 mph winds, 225 gusts and 23-foot storm surge.  Its first target was the chain of small Abaco Cays.

Greta Thunberg, 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, joined other youth leaders in the US climate movement to speak to the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis on Wednesday morning.

Glacier National Park, Montana. At St. Mary’s on the east side of Glacier National Park we started up the Going-to-the-Sun-Road, that winds for fifty miles through steep, rugged terrain and ends on the west side of the park at West Glacier.

Natural gas is not a bridge to a clean, renewable economy. Its a dead end to a dangerously high level of carbon in the atmosphere.

Honolulu, Hawaii – The US Conference of Mayors, representing 1,408 cities across the country, met in Honolulu last week and expressed broad support for local and national measures to address the dangers from the Climate Crisis.

Eleuthera, Bahamas – Throughout the world’s vast oceans, small island countries from the Bahamas, 48 miles off the east coast of Florida, to Samoa in the South Pacific, face an existential threat from sea level rise caused by the Climate Crisis.

During the year 2018, the nations of the world were on track to emit a record 37.1 gigatons of dangerous green house gases, equal in weight to 100,000 Empire State Buildings.  

A little known provision of the December 2017 Republican tax bill opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to the dangers of oil and gas drilling.

Newly elected Governor Ron DeSantis recently issued an executive order to address the many serious environmental problems that directly threaten Florida.