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 ...

LeConte’s thrashers rarely drink surface water, instead meeting their water needs via prey consumption. Get the latest on our ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management oversees more than 245 million acres, mostly in the West — more ground than any other public U.S. agency. From deserts to forests to wetlands, these irreplaceable ...

America's Dangerous Pipelines 2014 Analysis by Richard Stover, Ph.D., and the Center for Biological Diversity An analysis of oil and gas pipeline safety in the United States reveals a troubling ...

12 Ways to Live More Sustainably Every day we make choices in our lives that affect the environment, the climate and other species. From what we eat to how many children we decide to have, there’s a ...

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 ...

Just as nature inspires art, art inspires actions to defend wild places and the wild creatures that live in them. With this in mind, the Center for Biological Diversity's Endangered Species Mural ...

Having collected the most recent census data from state and federal bald-eagle managers in each of the lower 48 states and the District of Columbia, the Center for Biological Diversity has determined ...

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%.

The measurement of biodiversity is complex and has a qualitative as well as a quantitative aspect. If a species is genetically unique — if, for instance, it's far out on a remote arm of the ...