Blog Posts
- Guest Blogger Counts Down the Top Colleges and Universities for Environmental Studies
Guest Blogger Counts Down the Top Colleges and Universities for Environmental Studies
Last month, thousands of high school seniors received college acceptance letters and today, on College Signing Day, they are making the ultimate decision about where they’ll spend the next four years...
- What Does the U.S. Arctic Council Chairmanship Mean for Belugas and Other Arctic Species?
What Does the U.S. Arctic Council Chairmanship Mean for Belugas and Other Arctic Species?
Today, Secretary of State John Kerry is in Iqaluit, Canada, to accept the U.S. Chairmanship of the Arctic Council, and with it to take on a rare opportunity to shape the future of the region. Founded in 1996, the Arctic Council...
- The Montreal Protocol Special Meetings in Bangkok: Q&A with EIA
The Montreal Protocol Special Meetings in Bangkok: Q&A with EIA
The Montreal Protocol’s Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) meetings, with a special focus on hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), take place in Bangkok next week. EIA’s team will be at these meetings...
- Der Spiegel Exposes Timber Company over Illegal Romanian Timber
Der Spiegel Exposes Timber Company over Illegal Romanian Timber
The leading German news magazine, Der Spiegel, has concluded that Austrian-based wood products company Holzindustrie Schweighofer (Schweighofer) repeatedly agreed to accept illegally harvested timber from undercover...
- Enviro Film Festival’s Gambling on Extinction Drives Home the Atrocious Reality of Poaching
Enviro Film Festival’s Gambling on Extinction Drives Home the Atrocious Reality of Poaching
Today marks the start of Washington, D.C.’s highly anticipated annual Environmental Film Festival. One of the festival’s films, Gambling on Extinction, features EIA’s President and Co-Founder Allan Thornton...
- Shop on Amazon Smile and Donate to EIA
Shop on Amazon Smile and Donate to EIA
Amazon Smile is a website owned and operated by Amazon.com that allows online shoppers to select a charitable organization to receive 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases when they shop. Now that EIA is enrolled in the program, you can show your support...
- World Wildlife Day: The U.S. Moves to Crack Down On Wildlife Crime
World Wildlife Day: The U.S. Moves to Crack Down On Wildlife Crime
World Wildlife Day is a chance to appreciate the breathtaking variety of life on our planet; however, the headlines are often necessarily consumed by the global fight to save some of the most magnificent species from extinction...
- EPA Opens U.S. Market for Climate-Friendly Refrigerants
EPA Opens U.S. Market for Climate-Friendly Refrigerants
With the signature of Administrator Gina McCarthy this past Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gave final approval of a rule that will allow the use of climate-friendly refrigerants in several end-uses, such as household refrigerators...
- Hack the Rainforest: Unique Event Connects Computer Hackers and Environmentalists in Peru
Hack the Rainforest: Unique Event Connects Computer Hackers and Environmentalists in Peru
Last week in the cloud forest of Tarapoto, Peru, EIA’s partner Digital Democracy hosted a “hackathon” bringing together hackers from around the world, as well as environmental monitors, and indigenous organizations from Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru...
- Obama-Modi Talk HFCs: Build Hope for a Deal
Obama-Modi Talk HFCs: Build Hope for a Deal
Over the past few years my friends and family in India have heard me talking again and again about “phasing out hydrofluorocarbons under the Montreal Protocol.” But saying this is like speaking another language to them. So when they heard President Obama...
- EPA Ups Enforcement of Refrigerant Leakage, Time to Cover HFCs
EPA Ups Enforcement of Refrigerant Leakage, Time to Cover HFCs
Leaking refrigerants are a major cause of climate change because they predominantly consist of two families of synthetic manmade chemicals called hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs)—both ozone depleting substances and super greenhouse gases (GHGs)—and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)—powerful GHGs...
- Russian Supplier to Lumber Liquidators Convicted of Organized Crime
Russian Supplier to Lumber Liquidators Convicted of Organized Crime
The evidence against Lumber Liquidators, the U.S. wood products company currently under investigation by U.S. federal authorities for alleged violations of the U.S. Lacey Act, continues to accumulate. Senior executives of the Russian timber...
- NAMM Kicks Off, Musicians Join Nonprofits to Call for Legal Wood in Instruments
NAMM Kicks Off, Musicians Join Nonprofits to Call for Legal Wood in Instruments
This week, headliner musicians released a video to shed light on how illegal trade in precious woods, used in instruments and other wood products, devastates global forests. Driven by the connection between their music and the tonewoods which have...
- Vietnam – Still Driving the Rhino Poaching Crisis
Vietnam – Still Driving the Rhino Poaching Crisis
Rhinos are dying at a shocking rate – every week news releases remind us that the slaughter of South Africa’s rhinos is still wildly out of control. On average, more than three rhinos are poached each day...
- Translation by EIA: Step by Step, Laundering Peruvian Timber
Translation by EIA: Step by Step, Laundering Peruvian Timber
In her December 12, 2014 article, Peruvian journalist Dánae Rivadeneyra details the steps by which Peruvian timber is laundered at alarming rates. Her investigation confirms EIA’s findings, which were published in...
- EIA Hosts Workshop as Palm Oil Development Increases
EIA Hosts Workshop as Palm Oil Development Increases
Last week, EIA organized an unprecedented regional workshop for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), local communities, and Indigenous people groups in the Congo Basin to address the emerging threat...
- Voices for the Climate Echoes Concerns over Palm Oil Expansion at COP20
Voices for the Climate Echoes Concerns over Palm Oil Expansion at COP20
At the 20th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), held in Lima December 1 through 14, a series of speakers presenting at the “Voices for Climate, Indigenous Pavilion”...
- New National Pact in Peru Aims to Stop Illegal Logging
New National Pact in Peru Aims to Stop Illegal Logging
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) welcomes today the launch of the multi-sector working group, known as the National Pact for Legal Wood, established to combat illegal logging in Peru. Comprised of nonprofit...
- Ambitious Indigenous Forest Monitoring Program Underway Across Peru (video)
Ambitious Indigenous Forest Monitoring Program Underway Across Peru (video)
Peru’s largest organization representing indigenous peoples from the Amazon region, AIDESEP, is moving forward with a bold new proposal for indigenous forest oversightand management: el Sistema Nacional de Veedurías Forestales or National Forest Monitoring Initiative...
- EIA Celebrates 25 Years of Protecting the Environment With Intelligence
EIA Celebrates 25 Years of Protecting the Environment With Intelligence
For 25 years, the Environmental Investigation Agency has been pioneering the use of undercover investigations to expose environmental crime around the world. In addition to undercover work, EIA has also utilized campaigning expertise, an extensive advocacy network...
- Montreal Protocol Shows Political Will and Boosts Climate Momentum
Montreal Protocol Shows Political Will and Boosts Climate Momentum
This November marks a series of great successes for global climate policy. The progress began with the historic climate announcement by President Obama and President Xi, as the United States and China joined the European Union in committing to new limits on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Also last week, countries committed...
- Vice President of Ucayali Launders Illegally Logged Wood, According to OSINFOR
Vice President of Ucayali Launders Illegally Logged Wood, According to OSINFOR
Illegal logging in Peru’s Ucayali region and its link to the murder of Ashanika indigenous activist Edwin Chota is investigated by La Republica in the translated articled below. In the article, EIA’s Director of Peru Programs...
- Indigenous Groups Present Proposals in Lead up to Climate Talks in Peru
Indigenous Groups Present Proposals in Lead up to Climate Talks in Peru
In the lead up to global climate negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), indigenous groups presented proposals for inclusive climate mitigation and adaptation. During a public forum in Lima on October 27th, representatives from AIDESEP, the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Amazon...
- CCTV Biz America and EIA’s Kate Horner Talk Illegal Logging (video)
CCTV Biz America and EIA’s Kate Horner Talk Illegal Logging (video)
CCTV interviews EIA’s Director of Forest Campaigns, Kate Horner, in a discussion of the growing global crisis of illegal logging that threatens our world’s forests and the people who depend upon them. Ms. Horner discusses the international demand for wood products...
- Leaders Need to Focus on the Climate and Not the Politics
Leaders Need to Focus on the Climate and Not the Politics
Following hot on the heels of the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Summit in New York in September, a couple of events this week should put climate change back in the headlines...