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Forget Polar Bears and PPM

Top 25 reasons to give a damn about climate change 14
Posted 1 day, 5 hours ago So you're not moved by melting glaciers? Here are a few other reasons to pay attention to climate change, from supermodels to super-hungry rats.
Umbra's Just Bee-Cause

Tweet for the bees 4
Posted 2 weeks ago Find out how you can support honeybee research, the lazy way -- plus, a second chance to drink in Umbra's incredible bee hugs video!
Octopus(sy) Galore

James Bond calls for more marine protected areas 5
Posted 1 month ago The feds and the fishing industry aren't interested in new marine protected areas, but ocean advocates sure are. They get the message out with a new PSA starring Pierce Brosnan and a few other familiar faces.
this land is his land

Meet your new national parks chief 7
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago National Parks are not going down without a fight, says newly confirmed park service director Jonathan Jarvis.
Ask Umbra’s video advice on bees, honey, and hugs 5
Posted 3 months ago
A bird in the hand...

Calif. Audubon: Putting birders to work to build a case for climate action 1
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
While climate change could cause significant range declines in up to a third of California's birds, these impacts can be greatly lessened for many species if we take immediate action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Hawkarazzi

Urban hawks take flight on New York’s Upper West Side 0
Posted 4 months, 4 weeks ago
Reason No. 137 that I love commuting by bike in New York City: I get to watch baby hawks go to flight school.
Would you like frogs with that?

Frogs in the forest: the new canaries in the coal mine 4
Posted 5 months ago
Today Grist devoured frogs for lunch -- well, not exactly. We sat down with conservation biologist Dr. Kerry Kriger of the newly minted nonprofit Save the Frogs! on his stop in Seattle during a country-wide speaking tour. As one of the lone voices raising the alarm for amphibians, Kriger dished about the worst disease ever to hit wildlife, why it's such a big deal that one-third of amphibians are threatened with extinction, and just how many people actually are having frogs for lunch.
About those howls you're hearing...

Wolf delisting takes effect today 1
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Wolf-people, give a howl for your lupine brethren, who lose federal protection under the Endangered Species Act in much of the northern Rocky Mountains and upper Midwest today.
The bear’s a necessity

The wolf and the polar bear 13
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
On Monday, gray wolves in Montana, Idaho, and parts of other northern states left the endangered species list. Later this week, the Obama administration will make a critical decision on how to protect polar bears under the Endangered Species Act.
Playing frogger with the climate

Happy Save the Frogs Day 0
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Frogs and other amphibian species are collapsing like the global financial system. Find out why climate activists should save the frogs.
Furadan shame

U.S. corporation poisoning Africa’s lions 0
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
60 Minutes had an extraordinary piece by Bob Simon this weekend on how U.S. poison manufacturer FMC is exporting Furadan to Kenya, where it's being used to poison lions, leading to an 85 percent drop in their population.
Czange we can believe in

Salmon czar could coordinate better protection, rule over peasant salmon 1
Posted 8 months, 1 week ago
Because nothing signals a democracy on the mend like a profusion of czars, salmon defenders are now calling for a federal salmon czar.
The last American jaguar doesn’t have to be the last 0
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Urgent letter from Bo Webb on Coal River 1
Posted 9 months ago
Canada loves ducks, fines oil company 2
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago
MacArthur Foundation to fund climate change adaptation network 0
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Movement for metro pollinators spreading 17
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Scientists find source of gregarious behavior (in grasshoppers) 1
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago
New travel and cooking shows valorize the very practices destroying frogs and other living things 4
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago