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- Polar Bears Are Still In Trouble, Scientists Warn, As Commercial Demand for Polar Bear Fur Grows (April 18, 2012)
- Mysterious Arctic Illness May Have Spread to Polar Bears (April 7, 2012)
- Howling for Wolves (April 4, 2012)
- Wolf wars: how wolves won and how they may lose again (March 20, 2012)
- Atrazine: Still in Surface Waters and Still A Problem (March 8, 2012)
- Wildlife Roundup: the Good News (April 3, 2012)
- Wildlife Services: Does Killing Coyotes Do Any Good? (February 25, 2012)
- Wildlife Roundup: the Good News (March 3, 2012)
- The Importance of Plants: Global Warming Threatens Plant Communities, What Life Saving Medicines Will Be Lost? (January 9, 2012)
- Wildlife Roundup: The Good News (January 6, 2012)
- Midwest Wolves Recover: How To Get Wolf Recovery Right (December 22, 2011)
- Giving Green This Holiday Season (December 15, 2011)
- Wildlife Roundup: the Good News (January 1, 2012)
- New study confirms atrazine's effects across a range of species (including us) (November 29, 2011)
- Ranchers in Coos County Meet the Market: What Happens When Local Government Decides Not to Subsidize Killing Bears and Mountain Lions (November 10, 2011)
- Wildlife Roundup: the Good News (December 1, 2011)
- So much for fiscal responsibility: federal lawmakers push to increase budget of widlife-killing agency (November 2, 2011)
- Wildlife Roundup: The Good News (October 30, 2011)
- Dispatch from the North--Some Weak Sauce Served at the 1973 Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears (October 28, 2011)
- Polar Bear Trophy Hunters in the U.S. Lose Case--But International Help Still Needed (October 20, 2011)
- A big win for a little fish: new critical habitat designation gives added protection for the tidewater goby and California's coast (October 21, 2011)
- Department of Interior Finds Atrazine and Other Pesticides Is Causing Local Frog Extinctions (October 7, 2011)
- Wildlife Roundup: The Good News (October 3, 2011)
- NRDC at Moving Planet 2011 (Minnesota Edition) (September 28, 2011)
- Sharks deliver (September 20, 2011)
- Wildlife Roundup: The Good News (September 1, 2011)
- Why We're Better for Beavers (and Why Does the Federal Government Kill 27,000 a Year?) (August 30, 2011)
- Wildlife Roundup: the Good News (July 31, 2011)
- Now it’s manatees? (July 26, 2011)
- Atrazine Use Rises While EPA Twiddles Its Thumbs (July 25, 2011)
- Why We Need Judicial Review: The (Newest) Wolf Rider (July 8, 2011)
- Great Lakes Wolves Are Ready to Be Delisted; Will the Fish and Wildlife Service Screw It Up? (July 7, 2011)
- Wildlife Roundup: the Good News (July 4, 2011)
- Ida the polar bear, RIP (June 8, 2011)
- Wildlife Roundup: the Good News (June 7, 2011)
- What’s it like to be the the last of your kind? (May 10, 2011)
- Wildlife Roundup: the Good News (May 8, 2011)
- Follow the Evidence and Save the Frogs (April 29, 2011)
- The wolf rider: playing favorites when it comes to Judges (April 12, 2011)
- Disgrace: Gutting the ESA and Killing Wolves (April 9, 2011)
- Wildlife Roundup: the Good News (April 3, 2011)
- Saving Money by Saving Wildlife (March 10, 2011)
- Wildlife Roundup: The Good News (March 6, 2011)
- After wolves. Are bears next? (February 27, 2011)
- Pesticide in your drinking water? An Amendment to Republican’s Budget Bill Would Prevent EPA From Asking Questions. (February 15, 2011)
- Republican Budget to Wolves: Drop Dead (February 12, 2011)
- Starve the Beast: GOP Proposes Cuts To Already Underfunded Wildlife Programs (February 10, 2011)
- How Our Health Depends on Biodiversity (February 9, 2011)
- Wildlife Roundup: The Good News (January 31, 2011)
- Wildlife Services' Wolf Management Plan for Idaho: Lots of Killing (January 5, 2011)
- Wildlife Roundup: The Good News (December 31, 2010)
- Polar Bears: When is an endangered species endangered? (December 7, 2010)
- Newsweek misses the memo: you can’t discover the cure for cancer in an organism that has already gone extinct. (November 28, 2010)
- Being thankful for polar bears (November 24, 2010)
- Not with a bang but a whimper… (November 23, 2010)
- Wildlife Roundup: the Good News (November 3, 2010)
- Wildlife Roundup: The Good News (October 3, 2010)
- New wolf bills: bad science, bad policy, and bad legislation (September 28, 2010)
- NRDC and our allies head to court to defend the polar bear (September 28, 2010)
- Tufts University Economist: Phasing Out Atrazine Won’t Hurt Farmers (September 16, 2010)
- Wildlife Roundup: The Good News (September 1, 2010)
- Green Infrastructure and Wild Places—Through Artists Eyes (August 25, 2010)
- The Shark Ate My Homework: NRDC Submarine Attacked by Shark (August 24, 2010)
- Alaska Governor Parnell Doesn’t Want to Protect Polar Bears, For the Sake of Big Oil (August 9, 2010)
- Sigh…environmental “history” from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (August 4, 2010)
- Chemical contamination in the Arctic--a growing threat to polar bears, Arctic wildlife, and possibly people (August 3, 2010)
- Wildlife Roundup: the Good News (August 1, 2010)
- Wildlife Roundup: the Good News (July 1, 2010)
- Atrazine spikes in Missouri prompt community warning (Updated) (June 24, 2010)
- Atrazine: More Misinformation from Big Agriculture (June 22, 2010)
- New technique to reduce atrazine use unveiled (June 22, 2010)
- Big Shock: Nunavut is Opposing Polar Bear Conservation (June 21, 2010)
- Wildlife Roundup: the Good News (June 1, 2010)
- Study finds Atrazine exposure impairs fish reproduction at levels below federal water quality guidelines (May 20, 2010)
- Wildlife Roundup: The Good News (April 30, 2010)
- An Earth Day gift for dragonflies: federal government doubles Hine’s Emerald Dragonfly habitat protections in the Midwest (April 23, 2010)
- The Problem with Wildlife Services (April 22, 2010)
- Beautiful book trailer about endangered species (plus, a bonus track) (April 16, 2010)
- Double Trouble: Pebble Mine Threatens Two Beluga Populations (March 31, 2010)
- Wildlife Roundup: The Good News (March 28, 2010)
- Minnesota Reviews Atrazine -- And Drops the Ball (March 19, 2010)
- A big loss for polar bears -- with a small silver lining (March 18, 2010)
- Wildlife Roundup: the Good News (February 28, 2010)
- See if you can guess what I am now? (February 20, 2010)
- Oh. Canada (February 13, 2010)
- Walden Pond; or, How Global Warming and Invasive Species Can Change Everything (February 10, 2010)
- The President’s Budget: A Mixed Bag on Wildlife Protection (February 2, 2010)
- From Pipes to Polar Bears (February 1, 2010)
- Wildlife Roundup: the Good News (January 26, 2010)
- Wildlife Services: The Most Important Wildlife Agency You’ve Never Heard Of (December 2, 2009)
- 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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