The #ESA is one of our most powerful legal tools for protecting species at risk of extinction. When we suspect that a species needs ESA protection, our scientists study the species to determine whether it needs “threatened” or the more protective “endangered” status.

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“Its passage more than 50 years ago marked a key inflection point in our history and culture by treating extinction as a moral failure. It requires the United States to act decisively and use the best available science to prevent #extinction, no matter how politically inconvenient.”

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These Southeast Asian felines are so rare in their native #Thailand that none had been seen since 1995 — until remote cameras captured their nocturnal wanderings in 2024 and 2025.

These sightings are giving scientists and advocates a new chance to plan for their conservation.

Conservation groups have been vocal that existing measures do not adequately protect #RightWhales and have pushed for strengthening the speed limit rule by expanding seasonal management areas, applying speed limits to smaller vessels, and making compliance mandatory in dynamic management areas.

“There’s no question that the federal government has the legal authority to protect North Atlantic right whales by issuing this speed limit rule,” said the Center's Kristen Monsell. “The speed limit rule has been in place for almost two decades and has no doubt saved the lives of right whales.”

A rollback proposal could come any day now — and will be a blatant giveaway to #BigOil and auto executives.

While industry stakeholders rake in profits, Trump's proposal will let more cars burn more gas, resulting higher gas costs and worse air pollution that harms our health and #climate.

This scorecard analyzes emergency preparedness checklists across all 50 states. The results demonstrate a haphazard manner of inclusion and opportunities for states to better support reproductive health and community resilience in emergency preparedness planning. 19thnews.org/2025/12/wild...

The #EPA omitted that #cyclobutrifluram is known to break down into a smaller #ForeverChemical called trifluoroacetic acid, which research indicates is likely one of the world’s most pervasive #PFAS water contaminants.

The #UNFCCC withdrawal comes one year after Trump’s notification of withdrawal from the #ParisAgreement, which committed parties to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and submit national plans to reduce #GreenhouseGas emissions in service of this goal.

“Trump cutting ties with the world’s oldest #climate treaty is another despicable effort to let corporate #FossilFuel interests run our government,” said Jean Su, energy justice director at the Center for Biological Diversity.

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