During President Donald Trump’s first term, the Center for Biological Diversity filed 266 lawsuits challenging his administration’s attempts to block progress on climate change, kill wildlife, ...

OCEAN PLASTICS POLLUTION A Global Tragedy for Our Oceans and Sea Life Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in ...

10 Facts About Single-Use Plastic Bags The world uses 5 trillion plastic bags a year. 3 Americans use an average of 365 plastic bags per person per year. People in Denmark use an average of four ...

NATURAL HISTORY OCELOT} Leopardus pardalis FAMILY: Felidae DESCRIPTION: The ocelot is a medium-sized, spotted cat. It grows to about three feet long, not including its tail, and weighs around 30 ...

LeConte’s thrashers rarely drink surface water even when it’s available, instead meeting their water needs via their prey consumption. These wraiths of the arid saltbush flats were long considered ...

SAVING THE AMERICAN PIKA The American pika — a small, herbivorous, conspicuously cute mammal related to rabbits and hares — is adapted to the cold climate in high-elevation boulder fields and alpine ...

SAVING MEXICAN GRAY WOLVES The smallest gray wolf subspecies in North America, Mexican gray wolves are also one of the rarest and most imperiled mammals on the continent. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

THREATS: Extensive logging and habitat fragmentation, urbanization, wildfires, road construction, pollution, invasion of exotic species, global warming and disease POPULATION TREND: Dangerously low ...

As our open spaces have become filled and degraded from agriculture and urban expansion, the American bumblebee has started to disappear.

By challenging the consumerist mindset, we can reduce the threat to biodiversity posed by endless growth and the constant purchasing of new things. The best approach is through community-driven models ...

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%.

SECONDHAND 101 The rise of the global fashion and consumer goods industries has devastating environmental and social consequences. Excessive consumption by some contributes to resource depletion, ...