articles by: The Nature Conservancy

Remember Mother Earth This Mom’s Day

When I was a child, I looked forward to Mother's Day with extreme excitement. Not the waiting-for-Santa-Claus type of holiday thrill, but the anticipated joy of putting a smile on my mother's face by …

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Climate Plan Benefits Wildlife and People

You don't have to look far to see that we are living in a time of rapid environmental change. An increase in severe and erratic storms and floods, sea level rise, and forest fires are having devastati…

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8 Tips for Avoiding Food Waste

By Sarene Marshall, The Nature Conservancy "Children are starving in Africa." Did your parents ever say that, to encourage you to finish all your food? Mine did - because watching food get thrown…

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5 Aussie Animals Caught Dancing (Gallery)

The Nature Conservancy has collaborated with partners to protect more than six million hectares of land in Australia. We’re very serious about protecting land for people and nature, but sometimes even…

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Volunteers Rebuild Ocean Reefs in ‘Sweet Home Alabama’

I've probably heard the Lynyrd Skynyrd song "Sweet Home Alabama" a zilspilllion times in my life – high school dances, wedding receptions, and on the radio. But hearing it last weekend along the sh…

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How Much Time Do You Spend Outside?

Recently I went away for a ski weekend to New Hampshire with five of my girlfriends. There was a lot of laughter but what we didn't do was actually get outside and ski. We meant to; our cross country …

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Is Climate Change Funny?

I recently heard a stand-up comedian who devoted a good chunk of his monologue to “global warming” (aka, climate change). First, he joked that he wasn’t sure how to personally prepare – so he bought …

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What Cities Need

Our world is changing—there is no doubt about it. There are seven billion people on our planet right now and over the next 60 years that number will jump to roughly nine billion. More than half of tho…

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Oysters Threatened by Ocean Acidification

In my last blog, I celebrated emerging efforts to restore native Olympia oysters in San Francisco Bay for their value in mitigating coastal erosion, improving water quality, and other benefits. But…

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Climate Challenger Sails Home, Plans Sequel

Editor’s Note: Back in September, Manuai Matawai of Pere Village, Papua New Guinea, realized his dream of sailing the Pacific in a traditional outrigger canoe to spread the word about climate change …

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