PESTICIDES REDUCTION The country has learned a lot since Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring alerted us to the hazards of poisonous chemicals. But pesticide use still poses major threats to ...

Roads and development fragment habitat and constrain wildlife movement. Without incorporating habitat connectivity in our planning by preserving or creating linkages, we endanger the lives of both ...

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Sacred to Western Apache and other Indigenous people, the beautiful lands of Oak Flat, Arizona are also home to species like ocelots and endangered Arizona hedgehog cacti.

Click on a point in the map below — then click on 'Show Related Records' — to get information on all the animals and plants protected under the Endangered Species Act as threatened or endangered found ...

Dating back to before the dinosaurs, horseshoe crabs are among the Earth’s most ancient animals. They’ve survived for almost half a billion years, but now, in North America, they’re at great risk: ...

ANCHORAGE— The Trump administration today approved the first Arctic offshore oil drilling development in federal waters. Hilcorp Alaska received approval to build the controversial Liberty project, an ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The Trump administration has approved a maximum level of the medically important antibiotic oxytetracycline allowed in citrus fruits. The Environmental Protection Agency decision ...

WASHINGTON— The Trump administration reportedly plans to relax an offshore oil well-control rule today that was adopted to address a key cause of the deadly BP Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif.— Conservation groups filed a lawsuit challenging the city of Desert Hot Springs’ approval of the Mission Creek Trails development, which would build nearly 2,000 houses adjacent to ...

For Immediate Release, December 12, 2018 Contact: Patrick Sullivan, (415) 517-9364, [email protected] As U.S. Airbase Construction Starts in Okinawa, Legal Action Aims to Save ...

Lawsuit Launched Over Trump Administration's Failure to Protect Imperiled Arizona Plant TUCSON, Ariz. — The Center for Biological Diversity and Maricopa Audubon today filed a notice of intent to sue ...