OnPoint Community Credit Union, announced Wednesday a donation of $226,750 to The Nature Conservancy in Oregon in support of its mission to address climate change.
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In Deschutes County, each of us generate approximately 2,700 pounds of trash per year! As a result, the Knott Landfill is expected to be full by 2029. The Desert Sky Montessori community is doing its part to decrease their waste and increase their recycling.
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Long-time Bend-based solar electric company Sunlight Solar Energy has laid down a marker with the completion of their new net zero energy headquarters at 150 NE Hawthorne Avenue in the Bend Central District.
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Climate change is altering familiar conditions of the world’s oceans and creating new environments that could undermine efforts to protect sea life in the world’s largest marine protected areas, new research from Oregon State University shows.
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Central Oregon farmers and ranchers met Friday with Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Ore., and fellow freshman Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, to share their struggles and hardships over the past year amid severe drought and what they’d like to see the federal government do.
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The Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board has approved more than $400,000 to restore fish habitat and improve water quality in the Crooked River watershed.
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The Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District released Friday a draft environmental assessment for the nearly 35,000-acre Klone Vegetation Management Project south of Bend for a 30-day public comment period.
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The city council in The Dalles has approved a deal with Google that will enable the technology giant to build two more water-guzzling data centers there, though some residents worry about drought and secrecy.
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Political appointees in the Trump administration relied on faulty science to justify stripping habitat protections for the imperiled northern spotted owl, U.S. wildlife officials said Tuesday as they struck down a rule that would have opened millions of acres of forest in Oregon, Washington and California to potential logging.
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The Environmental Center announced the 2021 Sustainability Award winners during a live-streamed celebration from Open Space Event Studios on Thursday, Nov. 4.
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Gov. Kate Brown travels to Glasgow, Scotland Friday for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties to discuss the impacts of climate change on Oregonians, as well as to highlight the actions Oregon has taken to reduce carbon emissions, transition to clean energy, and ensure that Oregonians disproportionately impacted by climate change are not left behind.
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With winter just around the corner, bats in Central Oregon are beginning to hibernate. But once they awaken, the Deschutes National Forest has provided them with some new options to help them rest safely.
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Cascades East Transit is working toward renewable fuel options, so you might see electric buses rolling down High Desert streets one day.
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Much of the city of Redmond could soon get a better look at the starry nighttime skies, as city councilors decided Tuesday evening to move forward with an audit to look at the possibility of installing more than 1,000 LED streetlights.
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Oregon-based youth climate activists say settlement talks with the U.S. Department of Justice have failed, six years after they first filed a federal lawsuit in Eugene.
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová and Angela Dewan, CNN More than 100 world leaders representing over 85% of the planet’s forests committed on Tuesday to ending and reversing deforestation and land degradation by 2030, in the first substantial deal announced at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow. Among the nations taking part are Canada, Russia, Brazil, Colombia,
Continue Reading By Angela Dewan, CNN International Climate Editor It was in the city of Glasgow that Scottish engineer James Watt improved the workings of the steam engine and, unwittingly, kicked off the Industrial Revolution. Never could he have imagined that humans would burn so much coal, oil and gas over the next two centuries that they
Continue ReadingBy Angela Dewan, CNN International Climate Editor It was in the city of Glasgow that Scottish engineer James Watt improved the workings of the steam engine and, unwittingly, kicked off the Industrial Revolution. Never could he have imagined that humans would burn so much coal, oil and gas over the next two centuries that they
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — An agreement has been reached between timber and environmental groups to overhaul management of 10 million acres of private forestlands in Oregon.
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By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A group of Democratic lawmakers is urging the Biden administration to enact emergency protections for gray wolves in the U.S. West. Twenty-one U.S. senators asked Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Thursday to shield wolves from being killed for 240 days while permanent protections are considered. The
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