E&E NEWS: Judge Nixes Trump Changes to Endangered Species Act Regs
A coalition of environmental groups scored a win Monday (3/30/26)in a long legal battle when a federal court in California tossed out a set of regulatory rollbacks that undercut Endangered Species Act protections. The ruling comes after nearly a decade of legal combat that began under the first Trump administration…
Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History: We Achieved The Highest Accreditation!
We are proud to announce that we have achieved accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the highest national recognition afforded to the nation's museums! Accreditation signifies excellence to the museum community, to governments, funders, outside agencies, and to the museum-going public.
Center For Biological Diversity: New Analyses Of Pesticides and Rare Cancer Warnings
Two new analyses show that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has routinely failed to require cancer warnings on pesticide products — even when its own assessments found a high cancer risk for those products. The Center for Biological Diversity looked at labels for all currently approved pesticides, finding that the EPA put cancer warnings on only 69 of 4,919 products …
Reasons To Be Cheerful: The Native Seed Farm Safeguarding California’s Future
At Heritage Growers, every acre is being cultivated to repair ecosystems and help the Golden State meet its ambitious conservation goals. This native seed farm in Colusa is tackling one of the most fundamental — and least visible — environmental recovery challenges facing the American West: the shortage of locally adapted native seeds needed to restore damaged ecosystems at scale.
Inside Climate News: Report Shows Earth’s Climate is Out of Balance, as Indicators Hit New Extremes
The State of the Global Climate report highlights the significance of record-high concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. For the first time, it includes a metric called Earth’s Energy Imbalance as a key climate indicator, measuring the rate at which energy from the sun enters and leaves the planet.
Climate Action Now: Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve News from Mexico
World Wildlife Fund Mexico recently reported that the overwintering population of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) increased by a whopping 64% from winter 2024-2025 to winter 2025-2026, as illegal logging has been nearly eliminated in the Monarch Reserve…
The Guardian: Antarctic whales’ remarkable comeback is threatened by krill fishing
In Antarctica a remarkable comeback is taking place. In the very same waters of the Southern Ocean where whalers slaughtered more than 2 million whales during the 20th century, pushing a number of species to the brink of extinction, populations are recovering.
Climate Action Now: Heat Batteries Are Spreading Around the World
Heat batteries are growing fast in the U.S. MIT spin-off startup Electrified Thermal Solutions, recently unveiled the Joule Hive system, a superhot industrial heat battery which uses custom-designed metal oxide firebricks to convert grid surpluses into storable heat…
PV Magazine: Google to deploy world’s largest iron-air battery for Minnesota data center
A massive 300 MW / 30 GWh iron-air battery system in Minnesota, utilizing technology from Form Energy, is set to become the largest battery system by energy capacity announced globally, providing a blueprint for how Big Tech intends to firm up intermittent renewables to meet the relentless power demands of the AI era….
Happy Eco News: Scientists Create Durable Biodegradable Bamboo Plastic Superior To Petroleum-Based Materials
Chinese researchers have developed a biodegradable bamboo plastic that not only rivals but surpasses traditional petroleum-based plastics in strength and thermal stability while decomposing naturally within 50 days. The breakthrough….. could revolutionize manufacturing by offering a fully biodegradable, renewable, recyclable, and high-performance alternative
Inside Climate News: Earth’s Greatest Underwater Migrations Are Disappearing
Beneath the surface of the planet’s rivers and lakes, the historically heaving migrations of freshwater fish are thinning out. The blubbery-lipped Siamese giant carp of Asia’s Mekong River, the mottled brown goonch of India’s Ganges and the ancient-in-appearance beluga sturgeon of Europe’s Danube River are declining…
Seymour Marine Discovery Center Studio: The 12-Kilometer Whisper: Protecting the Soundscapes of Monterey Bay
Marine scientist Caroline Casey explains how underwater noise from ships and industry disrupts communication among seals, whales, and dolphins. Sound travels vast distances in the ocean, but human noise shrinks this range, impacting survival. Using data and initiatives like Blue Whales Blue Skies, researchers work to reduce noise and protect marine ecosystems.
UN Environment Program: Investing in planetary health would deliver higher GDP, fewer deaths, less poverty
A sweeping new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) lays out an ambitious, but achievable, economic transformation: investing in the health of the planet could generate at least $20 trillion in annual benefits by 2070…
PHYS.org: How a shift in the Gulf Stream could signal the collapse of a major ocean current system
Changes in the Gulf Stream, a strong ocean current in the Atlantic, could serve as an early warning of the imminent collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). The AMOC is a massive system of ocean currents that acts as a conveyor belt, moving heat from the tropics to the North Atlantic….
Climate Action Now: Kestrels Aid Cherry Farmers
Scientists have discovered that American kestrels (Falco sparverius, North America’s smallest falcons) provide substantial benefits to commercial cherry growers in the state of Michigan by eating, scaring off, and generally reducing the local population density of cherry-eating birds like grackles in orchards.
Grist: How electrifying a Bay Area rail system made trains faster, cleaner, and more frequent
Caltrain successfully electrified 51 miles of track in the Bay Area in 2024. The new electric trains cut 23 minutes off the travel time from San Francisco to San Jose, which has allowed new stops to be added and reduced the time interval between trains at any given station. Overall ridership grew by 60% last year…
Sand: Kato - Dreams of Dark Earth, March 18 - 20
Join us for the global film premiere of Katô: Dreams of Dark Earth. This is the fifth film in the Wisdom of the Ancestors series and is set in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics: Federal Judge Protects Tongass Old Growth
March 18 - A federal judge in Alaska dismissed a timber-industry lawsuit seeking to allow old-growth logging on the Tongass National Forest, the world’s largest temperate old-growth rainforest. Viking Lumber, Alcan Timber, and the Alaska Forest Association sued the Department of Agriculture in an effort to overturn an Obama-era forest management plan for the Tongass…
The Crucial Years, Bill McKibben: Now Comes The Heat
March 15 …Phoenix, Arizona, obliterated its previous (winter) record (a record set last year) by almost 3 degrees, a pummeling of a record in the realm of three-month temperature data. (When a record is broken) for a three-month stretch.... it should be by a tenth of a degree. That’s how statistics (used to) work on a stable planet. Three degrees is insane.
Climate Action NOW: Plug-In Solar Surging
As of March 1, 2026, 28 states plus DC are considering Utah-style plug-in solar bills as this newsletter long advocated! After months of hard work, a nationwide wave is building to make 2026 the year when plug-in solar becomes accessible in states across America!…