Larry Glass and Carrie Tully As some of you may know, I have a home on South Fork Mountain in Southern Trinity County. Since the...

I noticed that in the September edition of EcoNews that the Black Lives Matter movement has already been forgotten, and that's a shame because...

Staff Spotlight Jasmin Segura, Bay Tour Coordinator at Humboldt Baykeeper   What do you do? Coordinate free tours of Humboldt Bay that are accessible and safe for all...

Do you have an environmental query? Would you like to ask an expert? Submit your questions to editor@yournec.org and we will find a local...

Bill Tripp This article originally appeared in The Guardian. Reprinted with permission.   As wildfires rage across California, it saddens me that Indigenous peoples’ millennia-long practice of...

Photos and story by Kimberly Baker The time to adapt and live with wildfire is here. Many communities across the west are working toward that...

Caroline Griffith and Will Harling, Mid-Klamath Watershed Council Executive Director Fire has been a part of the landscape since long before we have, and humans...

The intersection of human rights, the environment, social justice, and the economy Caroline Griffith The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors is composed entirely of white people....

Felice Pace, Water Chair       I’ve been studying how the media reports on wildfires since 1987. This report is about what I’ve learned. In their public relations,...

Casey Cruikshank, NEC Coastal Programs Coordinator According to reports from the California Coastal Commission, California was the world leader in cleanup events for Coastal Cleanup...

Klara Hernandez The Campus Center for Appropriate Technology (CCAT)  has taken a hard hit in community functionalities since the start of the pandemic but part...

Michael D. Pulliam 2019 saw the release of 2040, an honest and hopeful documentary-meets-thought-experiment by award-winning director Damon Gameau. Combining bright visuals, masterful interpretive science...

Tom Wheeler, EPIC Something was in the water in Humboldt in the late 1970s. Important events coincided with a new generation of activists armed with...

  Stay Updated: www.northcoastcnps.org  https://www.facebook.com/NorthCoastCNPS/ CNPS welcomes anyone interested in native plants to join our events.  No expertise required. ................................................................. Evening Program November 11, Wednesday.  7:00 p.m. "Saving Humboldt's Big Lagoon...

Maggie Gainer, Zero Waste Humboldt Zero Heroes Honored November 15 Zero Waste Humboldt is pleased to announce the 2020 Zero Hero honorees. These five honorees represent...

Ivy Munnerlyn NEC Intern, Ivy Munnerlyn, brings us a weekly dose of information on creatures large and small. Follow us on social media @your_nec for...

Brittany Kleinshnitz helps ground us for the week ahead with Mindful Mondays on the NEC’s Instagram and Facebook. Follow us @your_nec and start your...

by Ellen E. Taylor An account of  the Dusky Gopher Frog’s Defense, and Fight for His Life, before the  US Supreme Court, October 1, 2018...

Dan Sealy, Legislative Analyst   Green New Deal THRIVES!  The Green New Deal is not dead yet!  The THRIVE Act (H.R.  1102: Transform, Heal, and Renew by...

by Jen Kalt This year’s widespread wildfires, hurricanes, droughts, and other extreme weather events are a harsh reminder of our tendency toward short-term thinking. Taking...

Martha Walden  California is already in climate crisis as record-breaking wildfires burn. A shaken Governor Newsom has vowed to speed up the reduction of greenhouse...

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Gov. Newsom Signs Executive Order to Conserve Coastline The order sets a first-in-the-nation goal to conserve 30 percent of the state’s land and coastal water...