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 ...

This shy, plush-furred member of the weasel family inhabits mature forests and munches on everything from birds to small mammals to fruit. In fact, the fisher is the only animal tough and clever ...

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 ...

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 vast majority of western dry forests are at risk of large, high-intensity fire because of the effects of poor forest management over the past century. The primary factors that lead to current ...

Native Bees. The United States has an amazing and diverse array of native bees. Across the country live about 4,000 native bee species — most of which are solitary and nest in the ground — coming in ...

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 ...

Center for Biological Diversity Statement on ABORTION. The Center for Biological Diversity believes that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature, and the health of people and ecosystems ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Plastic-Production Problem End the Fracking-fueled Plastic Boom. Plastic fills our dumps, homes and oceans. Plastic pollution takes a huge toll on wildlife: More than 700 species, including sea ...