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• Wildlife Roundup: the Good News (October 30, 2009)
• Giving Credit Where It’s Due (And Pointing Out When It’s Not) (October 29, 2009)
• Investor’s Business Daily Misleads on Polar Bears (October 27, 2009)
• In An Important Step, U.S. Designates Polar Bear Critical Habitat (October 22, 2009)
• BREAKING: The U.S. Takes the Lead in Restricting Polar Bear Hunting and International Trade (October 16, 2009)
• EPA Decides to Take a New Look at Atrazine (October 7, 2009)
• Helping the Coywolf Along (October 5, 2009)
• NRDC Petitions to Protect Unique Island Population of False Killer Whales (September 30, 2009)
• Changing an ecosystem one meal at a time (September 30, 2009)
• Wildlife Roundup: the Good News (September 29, 2009)
• That glass is pretty full: why yesterday’s wolf ruling is (mostly) good news (September 10, 2009)
• It’s time to tighten international regulation of polar bear trophy hunting and trade (September 8, 2009)
• Wildlife Roundup: The Good News (August 30, 2009)
• Poisoning the Well: atrazine is scary, and it’s everywhere (August 23, 2009)
• It takes a state to kill a wolf…Idaho invites everyone to hunt (August 21, 2009)
• Wildlife Roundup: The Good News (August 1, 2009)
• The Wonder of Polar Bears (July 29, 2009)
• The Polar Bear Debate: Lots of Smoke, But Not Much Heat (July 6, 2009)
• Environmentalism and Religion (June 30, 2009)
• Wildlife Roundup: The Good News (June 27, 2009)
• Moose Don’t Live in Texas (Or How Global Warming Will Change the Midwest) (June 17, 2009)
• Don’t be Shy: Alternative Energy Projects Still Have to Protect Wildlife (June 12, 2009)
• One of these things is not like the other…or is it? (May 8, 2009)
• Polar Bear News (May 7, 2009)
• LIVE CHAT on Protecting Wolves and the Endangered Species Act (May 6, 2009)
• Stubborn life (April 22, 2009)
• As go whitebark pine, so go grizzly bears? (April 17, 2009)
• Little Fish, Big World (April 16, 2009)
• Hey Wyoming: Your Wolves Aren't "Experimental" Anymore (April 13, 2009)
• Gray wolves lose protection in the Northern Rockies, but hopefully not for long (April 1, 2009)
• Just because it’s conventional wisdom, doesn’t mean it’s wrong (March 25, 2009)
• Yellow-billed loons won't get help from the federal government (March 24, 2009)
• Movement towards lead-free ammunition spreads (March 20, 2009)
• "Free-market Environmentalism": Putting the Cart Before the Horse (March 19, 2009)
• Nothing to see here…move along, move along (March 18, 2009)
• A bad call on wolves (March 9, 2009)
• Important endangered species Senate vote today (March 5, 2009)
• Three Cheers for President Obama (March 3, 2009)
• Breaking: Obama may announce intent to reconsider Bush administration Endangered Species Act Regulations (March 3, 2009)
• I’m not a lawyer, but I play one on TV (February 21, 2009)
• Obama Administration Begins to Reopen Endangered Species Act rulings (February 11, 2009)
• bears, wolves, and warblers (February 9, 2009)
• When the Forests Fade (January 23, 2009)
• Wolves get a temporary reprieve (January 21, 2009)
• A Second Chance for Midwest Forests (January 16, 2009)
• Here Come the States (and Congress too) (January 16, 2009)
• Apparently, Governor Palin doesn’t like beluga whales either… (January 15, 2009)
• Bush Administration Ignores Wolf Recovery Science—Again (January 14, 2009)
• Bush Administration to Strip Wolves of Federal Protections—Except for Wyoming (January 14, 2009)
• Global Warming Spreads Diseases That Threaten Wildlife--The Case of Black Abalone (January 14, 2009)
• Let’s Make 2009 A Better Year for Wolves (January 12, 2009)
• Bush Administration Considers the Possibility of Future Climate Regulation—As an Excuse for Not Protecting Wildlife (January 6, 2009)
• Bravo California! (December 31, 2008)
• Unintended Consequences (December 27, 2008)
• The End of the Road (December 20, 2008)
• Liveblogging the Secretary of the Interior's Announcement of Final Endangered Species Act Regulatory Changes (December 11, 2008)
• Whitebark Pine and Global Warming (December 10, 2008)
• Bam! 100th post... (December 10, 2008)
• NRDC Petitions to Protect Whitebark Pine Under the Endangered Species Act (December 9, 2008)
• Another victory for condors (December 4, 2008)
• I know! Let's have a 10-day comment period on a document no one can find! (October 26, 2008)
• When at first you don’t succeed…. (October 24, 2008)
• One other thing... don't forget about NEPA (October 22, 2008)
• What's your opinion worth? Maybe only 9 seconds, says the Bush Administration. (October 22, 2008)
• Good for them: EBay to ban the sale of ivory products (October 21, 2008)
• Beluga whales win protection (October 18, 2008)
• A step forward for polar bears but a cloud on the horizon for, well, everything (October 7, 2008)
• “Half of this game is ninety percent mental”* (October 6, 2008)
• Back to the drawing board: it’s time to rethink wolf recovery (October 1, 2008)
• Polar Bear News: the Emergence of Noise Pollution as a Threat and a Climate Change Denier Smackdown (September 29, 2008)
• Bush Administration Witnesses A No-Show at Senate Hearing (September 24, 2008)
• Trend of record low sea ice extents continue (September 17, 2008)
• The Endangered Species Act: a law that works (September 17, 2008)
• Federal Government to Withdraw Wolf Delisting (September 17, 2008)
• Extension Announced on comment period for proposed changes to Endangered Species Act regulations (September 15, 2008)
• We're way beyond foxes and henhouses here... (September 11, 2008)
• Swim for your lives (August 22, 2008)
• "More protection, less red tape" . . . yeah, right. (August 21, 2008)
• What’s in a name? (August 18, 2008)
• Profiles of the edge (August 17, 2008)
• UPDATE: Comment Period on the Bush Administration’s Proposal to Gut the Endangered Species Act Begins Today (August 15, 2008)
• Bush Administration Decides to Suppress Public Comment on Wildlife Regulations (August 13, 2008)
• An elephant never forgets… (August 12, 2008)
• A giant step backwards for wildlife (August 11, 2008)
• Planet Gore Replies (August 8, 2008)
• Lummi, the Orca, R.I.P. (August 7, 2008)
• Planet Idiot (August 5, 2008)
• Alaska Joins the Polar Bear Fray (August 5, 2008)
• Exxon Posts Record Profits; Group Funded by Exxon Attacks Polar Bears (July 31, 2008)
• Fish Ebola Poised to Hit the Mississippi (July 21, 2008)
• Wolves win! (At least for now) (July 18, 2008)
• The flexible, adaptable, Endangered Species Act (July 13, 2008)
• Wolves expand their range (July 1, 2008)
• Wildlife? We don't need no stinking wildlife! (June 24, 2008)
• Moral Consideration for Plants? (June 18, 2008)
• Alligators to the rescue (June 2, 2008)
• The Carnival of Nature (May 28, 2008)
• Hey George Will, the 1970's wants your brain back (May 22, 2008)
• Back in court for polar bears (May 20, 2008)
• The Road to Nowhere... (May 19, 2008)
• Happy Endangered Species Day! (May 16, 2008)
• Polar bear pileup (April 18, 2008)
• Killing Buffalo--For Nothing (April 11, 2008)
• Alone, starving, and dead (April 5, 2008)
• Wolf # 253, R.I.P. (April 4, 2008)
• Make a decision already! (March 10, 2008)
• Shoo dragonfly (March 10, 2008)
• Wolves: good for antelopes (for coyotes, not so much) (March 3, 2008)
• Global Warming--Now, With Mercury! (March 1, 2008)
• Two new shark species discovered (February 29, 2008)
• We'll fight for wolves (February 21, 2008)
• Eat It (February 20, 2008)
• The Littlest Canary in the Biggest Coal Mine (February 18, 2008)
• Apples and Orange Groves (February 16, 2008)
• Bye-bye beluga (February 10, 2008)
• Musseling in on California (January 21, 2008)
• Dyslexics Of the World Untie! (January 14, 2008)
• Trouble to the left of me, trouble to the right... (January 13, 2008)
• Fade to Black (January 11, 2008)
• As goes Idaho, so goes the Nation? (January 9, 2008)
• Justice Delayed is Justice Denied (January 7, 2008)
• Squirrelpox (or why good fences make good neighbors) (January 6, 2008)
• Sarah, Sarah, Sarah.... (January 5, 2008)
• Whales Win! (January 5, 2008)
• Nice Column, But I Think Your Agenda's Showing (January 1, 2008)
• Get Out and Get In Touch (December 31, 2007)
• Hugh Vickery Needs to Get a Clue (December 29, 2007)
• Where Eagles Dare Perch (December 26, 2007)
• Noah's Law (December 24, 2007)
• I do not think that jawbone means what you think it means (December 14, 2007)
• Polar Bears and Hunting: Worse Than You Think (November 26, 2007)
• Jerry Agar Doesn't Know What He's Talking About (November 16, 2007)
• Now that's a big pig (November 7, 2007)
• Wolves Spread in Western Europe (November 3, 2007)
• Hooray for Westerville (October 24, 2007)
• Condors Soar! (October 13, 2007)
• Franklin's Bumblebee, R.I.P. (October 10, 2007)
• As goes polar bears, so goes walruses? (October 8, 2007)
• Ballast Badness (October 5, 2007)
• Check out NRDC Action Fund's New Wolf Ad (September 28, 2007)
• No, admiral, there's rock-solid science re naval sonar's danger to beaked whales (September 24, 2007)
• The Parallax View (September 23, 2007)
• As goes Ohio? (September 18, 2007)
• Into Our Hand (September 12, 2007)
• Re: It's just too much work to worry about whales (September 11, 2007)
• Grim News (and hope) for Polar Bears (September 9, 2007)
• Newsflash: The Economist doesn't know what it's talking about (September 7, 2007)
• Biting the Hand That Feeds Us (September 6, 2007)
• It's not easy being green (September 5, 2007)
• A real Arctic Tale (September 4, 2007)
• Not quite dead yet! (August 30, 2007)
• Get the Lead Out (August 28, 2007)
• Should we pay landowners not to kill endangered species? (August 24, 2007)
• He’s baaaaaack……. (August 15, 2007)
• More melting ice—big trouble for polar bears (August 10, 2007)
• Requiem for a Dolphin (August 9, 2007)
• Those New Subaru Ads (August 7, 2007)

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