27 May 2025
Image: The Statue of Liberty by Stephen Tafra Empire Windfarm has been given the go-ahead after a u-turn by the Trump administration. Only last month, 16th April, President Trump issued a stop-work order on Empire Wind, a USD 5 billion project to build a wind farm off the coast of New York. At the […]
07 Jun 2022
Many important ocean regions off the coasts of the mainland United States are significantly unprotected, according to a new analysis of marine protected areas. The study finds that large portions of the coast have only 5% or less of its area conserved and a vast majority of the Mid-Atlantic coast unprotected. For the study, researchers […]
26 Jan 2021
President Biden has signed an order that means the US will return to the global fight against climate change. He is also committed to 100% clean electricity by 2035. The new administration will also protect “biodiversity, slowing extinction rates and helping leverage natural climate solutions by conserving 30% of America’s lands and waters by 2030”. […]