As people, we see ourselves living in a community, a neighborhood, a city. We also live in an ecosystem.

Just as we depend on our neighbors in our daily lives, we also depend on the natural systems that support all life: forests clean our air, mountains and lakes provide...

The Lorax has a simple message. We must care for our planet. If we don't, we could drive wildlife and plants to extinction. President Nixon agreed. On signing America's Endangered Species Act, he said, "Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life...

No matter how we try to minimize fossil fuel impacts, we can't avoid the fact that these substances are inherently dirty. Oil, gas and coal are at their core, toxic substances. And as a result they are dangerous to humans and wildlife.

The ten species most threatened by fossil fuels...

If you were to choose a route through which to move toxic, highly corrosive, sludgy crude oil, would you place it on the same narrow corridor used by one of the world's most endangered birds? The Canadian energy company TransCanada did and the Obama administration is on the verge of...

In 1973, Richard Nixon, a Republican president, didn't just sign the U.S. Endangered Species Act into law. His administration played a very large role in actually crafting this forward-thinking legislation. Looking at the new House Republicans today, we have to ask, "What happened?" If given the choice today, would they...

Last night, President Obama's salmon joke hooked the imagination of the American people. You could see it in NPR's wordcloud, and the tweets and blog posts this morning from commentators far and wide. It's not hard to understand why--salmon are a part of this country's history....

If your house were on fire, what would you save? Where would you even start? What if not just your house, but your whole planet was on fire?

That is the scenario we face today. Climate change has arrived. No longer clouds gathering in the distance, the firestorm is here...

If your house were on fire, what would you save? Where would you even start? What if not just your house, but your whole planet was on fire?

That is the scenario we face today. Climate change has arrived. No longer clouds gathering in the distance, the firestorm is here...

This election isn't good news for wildlife. Although the Endangered Species Act (ESA) was signed by Richard Nixon and passed with bipartisan support, times have changed. Politicians now use endangered species to score cheap political points, scapegoating wildlife protections for complex problems. Relying on misleading, tired old refrains like fish...

Oil fuels our lifestyles, while its consequences unabatedly smother much of what is beautiful on this planet, including our most precious species -- those edging ever closer to the cliff of extinction. The BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico is a potent and anguishing reminder of the...

In this "International Year of Biodiversity," we need to recommit our attention and action on saving life on planet Earth. With all of us naturally drawn to the continually unfolding disaster of the BP Oil Spill, an important assessment of how the world is doing on protecting wildlife slipped under...

Today, May 21st, is Endangered Species Day. Unfortunately, the news for endangered species is not very good.

Turn on your television or open the paper today and you are likely to see heartbreaking images of dead whales and sea turtles washing up onto beaches, and birds covered in oil. The...

The Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico is the most potent and anguishing reminder yet of the potentially disastrous consequences of oil development to humans and wildlife. The burning inferno that has taken human lives isn't done harming people or wildlife. President Obama has called it, "a massive...

It isn't often enough that we hear good news about wildlife. But, we do have something to celebrate right now when it comes to the native wildlife, fish, birds and plants that live within our borders. Late last week, the United States Senate unanimously passed a resolution, declaring May 21st...

I watched with pride this week as American negotiators attempted to strengthen protections for endangered species at the United Nation's Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. But despite the United State's efforts, endangered species protections were shot down at the CITES meeting...

The West Coast fishing industry and the California Bay Delta ecosystem were saved from the brink of disaster last week when Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) dropped her amendment to override the Endangered Species Act. Such an amendment would have been a largely unprecedented action by Congress to supersede...

The magnificent San Francisco Bay and Sacramento River Delta is the largest estuary on the West Coast of North America and the source of the California salmon fishery which provides thousands of jobs and millions of dollars of income to the economy. Tragically, one of the nation's most important ecosystems...