A Data-Drive Portrait of America’s Energy, Climate, and EnvironmentPublished by USAFacts Collaborating with Earth Day Network Earth Day Network is working in collaboration with the nonpartisan civic initiative, USAFacts, to share and disseminate USAFacts’ newly published State of the Earth special report. Using data sourced from the Environmental Protection Agency, FEMA, the US National Park…
American Lung Association’s “State of the Air” report finds climate change is driving increases in unhealthy air, 150 million people at risk. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Clean Air Act, which is responsible for dramatic improvements in air quality. Despite this, a new report from the American Lung Association finds nearly half…
Environmental Protection Network Details Trump Administration Actions to Undermine 50 Years of Environmental and Public Health Progress As we mark the 50 th anniversary of Earth Day, we are at another historic moment as the world faces environmental and public health challenges barely imagined 50 years ago. Sadly, in less than four years, the Trump…
Transcript as delivered of remarks by David Beasley, UN World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director at the April 21, 2020, virtual session of the UN Security Council on the Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Protecting Civilians Affected by Conflict-Induced Hunger Forgive me for speaking bluntly, but I’d like to lay out for you very…
April 22, 2020 marks 50 years of Earth Day. The first Earth Day sparked the passage in the U.S. of the Clean Air, Clean Water and Endangered Species Acts, and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. The urgency has never been greater, and the stakes have never been higher – we are now in…
Amid the recent coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic, Earth Day Network, the global organizer of Earth Day, will mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day with the first Digital Earth Day, a global digital mobilization on April 22 to address the most urgent threats to people and the planet. “At Earth Day Network, the health and…
Sustained efforts to contain East Africa’s worst invasion of desert locusts in decades are forging ahead, despite limits on the flow of personnel and equipment stemming from the global COVID-19 pandemic – the UN food agency. The infestation remains alarming, particularly in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia where it poses an unprecedented threat to food security…
This World Health Day (April 7), as the world grapples with the worst public health emergency in recent memory, over 90 percent of respondents surveyed in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong support a government-led closure of illegal and unregulated wildlife markets, according to new research for World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The recent outbreak of COVID-19…
by: Earth Talk Coronavirus has killed thousands of people and sickened hundreds of thousands (if not millions) more around the world. It has also caused mass hysteria and public health officials are bracing for the worst. The situation is mostly bad news, but the “silver lining” for the environment might be a downturn in carbon…
by: IQAir Air pollutants are incredibly diverse in terms of composition, health effects, and sources, ranging from the thick brown smoke belched out of monolithic mega-factories to invisible and insidious threats to your health and well-being. 1.Particulate matter (particle pollution) Particulate matter (also called airborne particles or PM) consists of particles in the…