Center for Biological Diversity

Rallying Against Land Grabs at Bears Ears, Grand-Staircase Escalante

Roddy Scheer Atlantic, Bears Ears, Cascade-Siskiyou, Center for Biological Diversity, conservation, Defenders of Wildlife, Gold Butte, Grand Canyon Trust, Grand Staircase-Escalante, Great Old Broads for Wilderness, Hopi, Indian, Katahdin, Maine, national monument, Native American, Navajo Nation, Nevada, New Mexico, ocean, Oregon, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks, Pacific, Patagonia, Pueblo of Zuni, Rio Grande del Norte, rollback, Rose Atoll, Sierra Club, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and Natural Resources Defense Council, Trump, Ute, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Western Watersheds Project, WildEarth Guardians, Wilderness Society

Greens are already fighting Trump’s new executive orders revoking protections on millions of acres within ten U.S. national monuments…

EarthTalk

The Environmental Conscience of Instagram

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer @bbcearth, @Waterlust, @WildlifePlanet, #climatechange, #everydayclimatechange, Arrati Kumarrao, Camille Seaman, Center for Biological Diversity, Clean Energy Advocates, hashtag, Inherit the Earth, Instagram, James Whitlow Delano, Nature Conservancy, NRDC, Paul Nicklen, Sean Gallagher, Sierra Club

Thousands of Instagram accounts are dedicated to raising awareness of environmental problems and providing solutions everyday people can embrace.

EarthTalk

Delisting the Yellowstone Grizzly: Good News or Bad?

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Yellowstone’s grizzly bear population has bounced back since the mid-1970s, but environmentalists think the iconic predator still needs federal protection…

EarthTalk

Endocrine Disruptors: Why So Bad?

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We can reduce the amount of endocrine disruptors we ingest by buying organic produce, avoiding processed foods & drinking filtered water…

Behind the Greens

Green Jobs

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Do you have what it takes to do something you love for something you love for a living? Here are some recent job listings from a few favorite environmental groups… Center for Biological Diversity Staff Scientist, Climate Law Institute Oakland, CA More jobs at CBD… EarthJustice Senior Attorney, Fossil Fuels San Francisco, CA More jobs at […]

Turkey Vultures at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon.

Behind the Greens

Environmentalists Decry Oregon Wildlife Refuge Takeover

Randi Spivak Bundy, Bureau of Land Management, Center for Biological Diversity, Kierán Suckling, Malheur, militia, national wildlife refuge, Oregon, U.S. Forest Service

An armed militia has taken over a federal building in southeastern Oregon as part of a long-running campaign of violence, intimidation and right-wing paranoia that has festered for decades in the West, most recently with the standoff with Cliven Bundy in Nevada in 2014. Among the demands at the latest standoff is to shut down […]

EarthTalk

Does Monsanto’s Roundup cause cancer or not?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer agriculture, cancer, cancerous, carcinogen, Center for Biological Diversity, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, garden, gardening, herbicide, IARC, International Agency for Research on Cancer, landscaping, lawn, Monsanto, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, pesticide, Roundup

Dear EarthTalk: My neighbor uses Roundup in her yard routinely and tells me it’s harmless to people and pets, but I’ve heard that it is carcinogenic. Can you set the record straight? —Maise Alexander, New Hope, PA Monsanto’s Roundup herbicides contain three key components: the […]

Going Green

Grand Canyon Perimeter Facing Sprawl

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The U.S. Forest Service today began paving the way for a sprawling urban development near the southern edge of the Grand Canyon that would include more than 2,100 housing units and 3 million square feet of retail space along with hotels, a spa and conference center. The superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park has called […]