Mongabay

The bias in saving nature: How conservation funding favors the familiar

With the World Conservation Congress meeting this week, I thought it was useful to revisit a study published earlier this year on conservation funding. For decades, conservationists have warned that ...

Why are nature protection funds not reaching indigenous peoples?

In the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, the indigenous community of Sungai Utik has been protecting 10,000 hectares ...
Nature

Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change — here’s why

The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed. Danny Cullenward is a climate economist and ...
Fox Business

British billionaire cuts off funding to left-wing groups after watchdog exposes $553M operation

Christopher Hohn, a British billionaire and hedge fund manager, is cutting off funding to left-wing groups and causes after a report by Americans for Public Trust (APT). APT said in its report that ...
The Baltimore Sun

Multiple organizations researching where antifa receives its funding from

President Donald Trump and top administration officials have vowed to use the full weight of the federal government to bring down antifa. Trump even pledged to go after antifa’s finances and designate ...
New York Post

Cam Skattebo is a Giants force of nature who can’t be denied

Here is a message to the NFL officials who are just getting to know about Cam Skattebo: Do not — repeat — do not blow the whistle and signal the play dead while Skattebo’s legs are still churning and ...
Forbes

MIT ‘Cannot Support’ Trump’s Compact—First University To Reject Funding Deal

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology turned down the Trump administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” on Friday, according to multiple reports, becoming the first ...
Columbus Dispatch

Ohioans under Obamacare to see health costs spike or lose coverage if tax credits expire

Hundreds of thousands of Ohioans who buy health insurance in the Affordable Care Act marketplace will see their premium costs spike dramatically or be uninsured altogether if tax credits from the ...
The Harvard Crimson

A Majority of Frozen Federal Funding Has Been Restored, Harvard Says

Harvard has now received payments on the majority of funding that it lost since the Trump administration froze its access to federal grants this spring, the University notified faculty this month.
The Hill

Senate defeats government funding measure as shutdown hits Day 9

The Senate on Thursday voted for a seventh time to block a House-passed bill to reopen the federal government, as only three members of the Democratic caucus joined Republicans in voting to resolve ...
The Hill

Vance says ACA tax credits fuel fraud

Vice President Vance said Sunday that subsidies offered under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) fuel waste and fraud in the insurance industry, as Republicans refuse Democratic demands to extend the tax ...