Today’s Wall Street Journal has a fascinating story about beavers and the realization by some ranchers that they provide many economic,...

 

It’s been a

Last week Jon Entine, a visiting fellow with the conservative American Enterprise Institute, attacked the link between the decline of frogs globally and pesticide use.  As Jon rightly notes, worldwide the biggest problem facing frogs today is the spread...

As you might know, things are tight in Washington, DC right now....

Last week the Republican controlled House Rules...

The Endangered Species Act is one of the most powerful -- and most successful -- environmental laws ever enacted. And one of the center-pieces of that success is the gray wolf,...

I couldn’t help but chuckle a bit when I read Ali’s recent post about “Waldo,” the autonomous submarine launched by NRDC, Oceana, and the Mote...

When it comes to the Arctic, a lot of attention gets directed towards climate change and oil and gas drilling.  And rightfully so.  Global warming poses an existential...

Ahh, July.  Fireworks, corn on the cob, backyard cookouts—and some good news about wildlife conservation:

• Oregon’s Imnaha wolf pack has produced a litter of four pups.  They are Oregon’s only reproducing pack.  A plan to shoot two members of...

It’s been a rainy spring here in the Midwest and that mean worries about flooded basements, streets, and towns.  Many of our streams and creeks are bloated by runoff from nearby fields. Unfortunately, a lot of those fields have been treated with...

Most people don't know that the U.S. Government is in the business (and I mean that literally, in some cases) of killing wildlife.  In 2008, the U.S. government killed more than 124,000 predators such as coyotes, mountain lions, bobcats, foxes...

The last couple of weeks have been good ones for the polar bear, with the Obama Administration proposing both the designation of over 200,000 square miles of critical habitat the bear and increased international restrictions on polar...

It’s been a good couple of weeks for polar bears.  First, the Department of the Interior announced that it would propose tighter international regulations of polar bear trophy hunting and trade under international law and, today, the Department of...

Big, big news out of Washington, D.C. today on the topic of polar bear conservation.  The United States, responding to NRDC, our allies, and more than 50,000 NRDC members, announced that it would propose placing the polar bear...

Good news: today the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it will initiate a review of the health and environmental effects of atrazine, one of the most widely used pesticides in the United States. 

The review will take about...

Big news in the ongoing fight over wolves in the Northern Rockies -- as you may know, a coalition of groups is trying to stop the wolf hunts that were set in Idaho and Montana after the animals were...

In another disappointing turn of events, today Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar effectively endorsed the Bush Administration's policy of excluding the effects of global warming pollution on polar bears from consideration under the Endangered Species Act.  The Secretary...

Yesterday, just after he became President, Barrack Obama ordered all federal agencies to withdraw any regulations proposed by the Bush Administration that had not yet been officially published or gone into effect. President Obama's order is similar to one issued by President Bush when he entered the White...

The Bush Administration has announced that it will remove protections under the Endangered Species Act from wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains. Today's decision comes just months after a previous attempt to delist the Northern Rocky Mountain population was struck down by a federal court. The Natural Resources...