Huffington Post featured a Reuters report (5/25) saying that energy ministers from the U.S., Mexico, and Canada established a regional working group to harmonize climate and energy policies.
The New York Times (5/20) was one of many major U.S. publications to report on President Obama’s May commencement speech, delivered at the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut.
The Washington Post (5/7) reported that average global atmospheric carbon dioxide levels surpassed 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in March 2015.
The U.S. State Department released its 2015 Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) in April, and climate change was identified as one of four strategic priorities for all U.S. diplomacy and development efforts.
Since its inception in 2005 the SERVIR partnership between USAID and NASA has helped countries monitor environmental change and forecast extreme storms, floods, droughts, fires, red tides.
President Barack Obama traveled to the Florida Everglades this Earth Day, April 22, to draw attention to the threat climate change poses to U.S. parks and natural resources.
The United States and Brazil are both facing water shortages of historic proportions in some of their largest population centers, Fortune magazine reported on April 6.
On March 31, 2015, the U.S. submitted its 2025 carbon emissions reduction target to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).