As you pack your first school lunches of the year, what small steps will you take towards reducing your lunch-time waste? There are many resources available to help you, your kids, and your school make different choices.

Planet Change today hosts the first in a new series: California Climate Change Chronicles, focusing on innovative policies and nature-based solutions to climate change from a California perspective. Today’s post looks at oyster reefs and how bringing them back can help keep San Francisco Bay healthy.

The Nature Conservancy has published a new report focusing on lessons for climate finance from Brazil, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Mexico and Peru. Click on this post to learn more and download the full report.

From Seattle to Sweden, an ever-growing number of city and regional governments are using roof gardens, specially designed wetlands, and other forms of “green infrastructure” to rein in pollution from countless diffuse sources — and to save money.

After too many encounters with “I”-named hurricanes, Sarene Marshall’s family has kept a wary eye on storm Isaac brewing in the Gulf of Mexico.

A group of 121 experts has named The Nature Conservancy a “high-impact nonprofit” working in the field of climate change, according to Philanthropedia.

It’s been a long, hot summer across much of the U.S. Recent science confirms that we’re experiencing a trend of much warmer summers – but is there anything we can do about it? Two Conservancy experts say yes.

Climate Change News is a Planet Change selection of the latest news on climate change, nature, our environment and the impacts of a changing planet. Continue reading to find out what’s good to know this week.

A Conservancy carbon market specialist looks to family history to inspire his work valuing the carbon stored in forests in order to fight global warming and finance forest restoration.

Residents of Monroe County and the Florida Keys seek solutions as they look to the future and see more salt water rising all around. Joining with partners and government officials, staff from The Nature Conservancy are joining the conversation about a county plan.

This latest season of heat and drought is driving home to many of us, that in order to protect our families from needless impacts, we need to take steps to avoid looming climate bankruptcy.

In the News is a Planet Change selection of the latest news on climate change, nature, our environment and the impacts of a changing planet. Continue reading to find out what’s good to know this week.

Downed trunks and branches. Power outages. Storm-damaged yards and roadways blocked by tree limbs. Severe weather may be putting trees in our way lately, but we need them.

In the News is a Planet Change selection of the latest news on climate change, nature, our environment and the impacts of a changing planet. Continue reading to find out what’s good to know this week.

The key to Micronesia’s future may lie in motiviating its youth to find conservation solutions. In the next episode of Into the Islands with Dan Ho, we visit Majuro Atoll, where shorelines are changing.

In the wake of the “derecho” storm that hit the Mid-Atlantic, Governor O’Malley blamed global warming for prolonged power outages in Maryland.

The final post from the First Stewards symposium held in Washington, D.C. last week shares insights learned by the symposium’s official witnesses whose goal it is to ensure the learnings from the symposium will be carried forward.