biodiversity

Groups Petition BLM to Protect Fragile Wyoming Habitat From Oil and Gas Drilling

Groups Petition BLM to Protect Fragile Wyoming Habitat From Oil and Gas Drilling

Drilling in the Douglas Core Area undermines the efforts of local residents and ranchers to protect sage grouse habitat. The male sage grouse shown in its mating display. Today, conservation groups formally petitioned the federal government to halt all new wellpad and road construction inside the Douglas sage grouse Core Area of eastern Wyoming. Core […]

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    250 Groups Call on EPA to Ban Endocrine-Disrupting Atrazine

    250 Groups Call on EPA to Ban Endocrine-Disrupting Atrazine

    Center for Biological Diversity A diverse coalition of more than 250 conservation, public-health and sustainable farming groups sent a letter today asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban atrazine, a toxic pesticide that threatens wildlife and people across the country. The Center for Biological Diversity also submitted comments today from more than 38,000 […]

    EPA’s New Pesticide Label Fails to Fully Protect Honey Bees

    EPA’s New Pesticide Label Fails to Fully Protect Honey Bees

    Beyond Pesticides The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new pesticide label for honey bee protection, announced Thursday, has been widely criticized by beekeepers and environmentalists as offering inadequate protection in the face of devastating bee decline. Under the new guidelines, the labels will prohibit the use of some neonicotinoid pesticides when bees are present, and […]

    Pilot Study Finds Plants Sold As ‘Bee Friendly’ Pretreated With Pesticides

    Pilot Study Finds Plants Sold As ‘Bee Friendly’ Pretreated With Pesticides

    Friends of the Earth Many “bee friendly” home garden plants sold at Home Depot, Lowe’s and other leading garden centers have been pre-treated with pesticides shown to harm and kill bees, according to a new, first-of-its-kind pilot study released yesterday by Friends of the Earth and allies. The pilot study, co-authored by the Pesticide Research […]

    Arctic is Caught in Rapid Melt ‘Death Spiral’

    Arctic is Caught in Rapid Melt ‘Death Spiral’

    TckTckTck By Heather Libby “The record or near-records being reported from year to year in the Arctic are no longer anomalies or exceptions. Really they have become the rule for us, or the norm that we see in the Arctic and that we expect to see for the forseeable future” – Jackie Richter-Menge, U.S. Army […]

    Monarch Migration Patterns Yield Clues About Pollinator Declines

    Monarch Migration Patterns Yield Clues About Pollinator Declines

    Yale Environment 360 A comprehensive mapping of the the North American migration patterns of the iconic monarch butterfly could help preserve a species threatened by loss of habitat and food sources, a team of international researchers says. In a study conducted across 17 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces, from southern Texas to Alberta, biologists […]

    Scientists Work to Solve Mystery of Dying Bees

    Scientists Work to Solve Mystery of Dying Bees

    Dr. David Suzuki When a swarm of bees landed on a tree in their yard a few years ago, a David Suzuki Foundation staffer and her husband became accidental beekeepers. They called an apiarist relative who came over and helped them capture the bees, build hives and round up equipment. Now they’re enjoying fresh honey […]

    Louisiana Sues Big Oil for Loss of Coastal Wetlands

    Louisiana Sues Big Oil for Loss of Coastal Wetlands

    DeSmogBlog By Farron Cousins After decades of operating with complete disregard for the environment, the dirty energy industry finally has to face the music for destroying the wetlands that form a natural barrier against storm damage in the state of Louisiana. The suit, filed by the board of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East, claims […]