NATURE CONSERVANCY

Imani Green Health Advocates, which is a South Side program that trains young people in environmental health initiatives, held a training day for tree health.

For travelers, volunteering in the great outdoors adds meaning to the adventure.

Alta Farms Wind Project II is set to operate in Illinois in the fall of 2022, but residents there aren't all on board with the energy option.

Alta Farms Wind Project II is set to operate in Illinois this fall, but residents there aren't all on board with the energy option.

CLARKSTON, MI - Fans of Dave Matthews Band have just one chance to see the popular band in Michigan in 2022. Tickets just went on sale at 10 a.m. today for their concert at Pine Knob Music Theatre on Tuesday, June 21. Here’s how to get them:SeatGeek tickets hereStubHub ticketsTicketmasterIn addition to this huge summer tour, Dave Matthews Band plans to plant one million trees this year on top of already helping planting more than two million of them through the band’s partnership with the Nature Conservancy. Concertgoers have the option to add a $2 donation per concert ticket to help the Nature Conservancy’s Plant a Billion Trees campaign. RELATED: All of Pine Knob’s 2022 scheduled concerts for its 50th anniversary seasonDMB 2022 Summer Tour:

Brown bear siblings, named JB and Patron, lie down and fall asleep at the same time in footage captured on September 21 by the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, where they live.

Fall foliage is being disrupted by extreme weather across the U.S., a trend experts say is likely to continue as the planet warms. (Sept. 30)

Oregon’s Bootleg fire has offered new evidence that Indigenous techniques can change how megafires behave Smoke from the Bootleg fire billows near Sycan Marsh in Oregon. Photograph: US Forest Service/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock The Bootleg fire stampeded through southern Oregon so fiercely that it spit up thunderclouds. But when the flames approached the Sycan Marsh Preserve, a 30,000-acre wetland thick with ponderosa pines, something incredible happened. The flames weakened and the fire sl

Scientists believe the extreme weather events of recent years are tied to climate change. But the gap between the visceral reality of a slow-moving planetary disaster and the capacity of governments to take significant climate action is only growing.

Erie Marsh Preserve makes list of hiking trails

It’s spring! That means it’s time to get outdoors, take in some fresh air and enjoy.

This cover image released by One Signal Publishers shows "Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World" by Katharine Hayhoe. (One Signal Publishers via AP)NEW YORK – The new chief scientist at the Nature Conservancy, Katharine Hayhoe, has written a book about climate change. One Signal Publishers announced Wednesday that Hayhoe's “Saving Us” will be released Sept. 21. Hayhoe will combine research and personal stories as she attempts to unite readers, including those who deny the overwhelming evidence of climate change, and motivate them toward action. Hayhoe, a climate scientist who teaches public policy and public law at Texas Tech University, hosts the PBS digital series “Global Weirding” and was named a “Champion of the Earth” by the United Nations in 2019.