RAN Executive Director on the Connections Between Forests and Climate Change
It has been an extreme summer. Droughts. Wildfires. Crop failures. Heat waves. Melting ice caps. We’ve seen these words so much this summer you may not feel any shock at…
KI Nation Paddles 300 km to Protect their Wild Watershed
Canada’s Boreal forest is part of the world’s largest land-based carbon storehouse. It is also the world’s greatest reservoir of fresh water, and is among the largest unlogged forests left…
Report from the Coal Export Action: Day 1
At around 9:30 this morning, one hundred strong gathered in Helena, Montana for the first day of the Coal Export Action. Today’s rally spread across the steps of the capitol…
Experiencing Strange Weather? Welcome to the Rest of our Lives
The U.S. is getting hit by extreme weather this summer: heatwaves across the eastern seaboard, droughts in the Midwest, forest fires raging in the Rockies. Check out this spine-chilling video…
BofA Takes the Earth out of Earth Day
If there was ever a time for Bank of America to address the outcry over its ecological rampage, this was it. Environmental organizations in Charlotte, North Carolina received a surprising…
EPA Rejects Palm Oil: Good News for Indonesian Rainforests
Before I started doing environmental work, I’d assumed that biofuel use would have a positive effect on the climate. It turns out the truth about biofuels is much more complex…
Man Up: Music Video Call-To-Action To Oppose The Keystone XL Pipeline Nov. 6th
Obama: Man Up! No to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline! Becky White and the Secret Mission have just released this catchy and hilarious protest anthem/call to action track and…
Peat Fires Greet Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force Assembly
Thick smoke from burning peatlands hangs over the capital of Central Kalimantan in Indonesian Borneo every morning. The smell from the smoke is pervasive, a constant reminder of how Indonesia…
Paper Tiger: RAN Featured in Must-See Expose on Indonesian Logging
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has just aired a damning exposé called “Paper Tiger” about the devastating deforestation caused by the pulp and paper industry in Indonesia. The program is…
A Rainforest Apocalypse? People, Peat And Promises For A New Direction
If you think this title sounds hyperbolic, you probably have not visited Sumatra lately. Before traveling here, I had heard stories about the oceans of oil palm that have been…