Fossil fuels — coal, petroleum, and natural gas — are our main sources of energy, producing the vast majority of fuel, electricity, and heat used by people across the globe. In 2005 a whopping 86 ...

NATURAL HISTORY. JAGUAR (in Spanish, el tigre) } Panthera onca FAMILY: Felidae. The word jaguar comes from the South American Tupi and Guarani languages. A likely origin is the word yaguareté, meaning ...

The measurement of biodiversity is complex and has a qualitative as well as a quantitative aspect. If a species is genetically unique — if, for instance, it's far out on a remote arm of the ...

What Is Atrazine? After glyphosate, atrazine is the second-most widely used pesticide in the United States. The country uses around 70 million pounds of it over an area of roughly 60 million acres of ...

Just as nature inspires art, art inspires actions to defend wild places and the wild creatures that live in them. With this in mind, the Center for Biological Diversity's Endangered Species Mural ...

Meat consumption - along with energy production and use - is one of the most ecologically damaging systems on the planet ... and it’s one that will only get worse as the human population grows, unless ...

12 Ways to Live More Sustainably. Every day we make choices in our lives that affect the environment, the climate and other species. From what we eat to how many children we decide to have, there’s a ...

CYANIDE BOMBS Stopping M-44s From Killing American Wildlife. For the past century a federal program called Wildlife Services, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has been slaughtering wildlife ...

SAVING THE COQUÍ LLANERO. Coquí frogs are cultural symbols in Puerto Rico, well known for the “ko-kee” call made by the common coquí, Eleutherodactylus coqui.In fact, 16 distinct species can be found ...

Fast fashion is an enormous, rapidly growing industry, with the number of new garments made per year nearly doubling over the past 20 years and global consumption of fashion increasing by 400%. Waste ...

Mountaintop removal destroys lives and communities. Citizens living in mining areas say it's like being in a war zone. Blasts shake houses, crack windows and foundations, ruin wells, send boulders ...

Climate change is the single greatest threat we've ever faced — not only to human society but to the Earth's web of life. The Center's Climate Law Institute was founded to unite our programs in ...