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Conservationists File Lawsuits to Stop 'Death Sentence to Wolves' Ordered by Trump
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With Dire Assessment, Scientists Warn Humanity in Denial of Looming 'Collapse of Civilization as We Know It'
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A firefighter surveys the Bond Fire—started by a structure fire that extended into nearby vegetation—on December 3, 2020 in Silverado, California. (Photo: Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
"We aim to provide leaders with a realistic 'cold shower' of the state of the planet that is essential for planning to avoid a ghastly future."
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'Nature Is Under Siege': Scientists Sound Alarm About Insect Apocalypse
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A dragonfly sits in reedbeds on the Isle of Grain on August 31, 2016 in Isle of Grain, England. (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
The lead author of the new research package notes that insects "are absolutely...
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Conservation Group to Sue Trump Officials and Agency Over Delayed Protections for 11 Species
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
<p>A monarch butterfly lands on butterflyweed, a type of milkweed, at the Lenoir Preserve Nature Center in Yonkers, New York. (Photo: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/67832671@N00/4855344568">Don Sutherland</a>/flickr/cc)</p>
The Center for Biological Diversity points out that Trump's presidency "is...
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Activists attend a news conference on Republican sponsored legislation that would open the Alaskan wilderness to oil drilling outside the U.S. Capitol.
'Biggest Threat Yet' to Arctic Refuge as Trump Readies Last-Minute Lease Sale
Gray wolves were delisted from the Endangered Species Act on January 4, 2021. (Photo: Chad Horwedel/Flickr/cc)
Despite 'Meager Numbers,' Trump Administration Removes Gray Wolves From Endangered Species List
Sarah Gattiker stores the 24,200th species of seed in the vault at Kew's Millennium Seed Bank, which now holds 10% of the world's wild plant species, on October 15, 2009 in Sussex, England. (Photo: Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
'If You Own the Seeds You Own the Food System': Campaigners Demand Public Ownership to Counter Big Ag Privatization
The federal government has failed to extend Endangered Species Act protection to the monarch butterfly, despite a 90% drop in population this century. (Photo: John Flannery/Flickr/cc)
Despite 90% Population Plunge, Trump Admin Refuses Monarch Butterflies Endangered Species Protection
A file photo shows the FSO Safer supertanker permanently anchored off Yemen's Red Sea coast, west of Hodeida.
Researchers Warn of Looming Oil Spill Four Times Larger Than Exxon Valdez If Urgent Action Not Taken
A grizzly bear takes a stroll on an autumn day in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. (Photo: Ania Tuzel Photography/Flickr/cc)
'Most Anti-Wildlife President in History' Puts Out Lame Duck Rule to Gut Species Protection
The Anthropocene Is... Heavy: Scientists Find Human-Made Objects Now Outweigh All Life on Earth
A woman looks at the destruction in Haulover in the Northern Caribbean Autonomous Region, Nicaragua, on November 28, 2020, days after the passage of Hurricane Iota. (Photo: Inti Ocon/AFP via Getty Images)
As World Teeters on Brink, Over 250 Scientists and Scholars Warn of Full-Fledged 'Societal Collapse'
While nutritious diets, healthy populations, pollution remediation, and even climate change mitigation all depend, at least in part, on soil biodiversity, society is not doing enough to preserve this crucial resource, the U.N. warned. (Photo: Jonas Gratzer/LightRocket via Getty Images)
'Few Things Matter More to Humans': UN Report Says We Must Protect and Restore Biodiversity of World's Soil
A musk-ox relaxing alongside the Canning River in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
As Lame-Duck Trump Pushes for Arctic Pillage, Bank of America Latest Bank to Rule Out Drilling in Alaska Wildlife Refuge
Keith Williams photographed this Bohemian waxwing in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory on December 27, 2012. (Photo: Flickr/cc)
Under Cover of Thanksgiving, Trump Administration Pushes to Relax Rules Protecting Birds
Protestors gather in Dillingham, Alaska, for a rally against the Pebble Mine. Opposition to the mine has united sports and commercial fishermen and native Alaskans against the project at the headwaters of Alaska's Bristol Bay, home to some of the last great salmon runs in the world. (Photo: Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Victory for Tribes, Waterways, and Planet as Pebble Mine Denied Permit

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