Now: As the state of Arizona doles out uranium mining permits like express-mailed Christmas cookies, New Mexico today outright banned new uranium mining on state land. What a contrast. Congratulations and thank you New Mexico for your leadership. More: insideclimatenews.org/news/0409202...

New Mexico Bans Uranium Leasing on State Lands - Inside Climate News

The move to block new mining projects comes as the Trump administration seeks to revive American uranium production.

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Now: The Center for Biological Diversity and other conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration's unlawful decimation in July of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Southern Utah. Read more: biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

BREAKING: Armed and masked agents of the U.S. government have invaded the sovereign Tohono O'odham Nation.

Now: Center for Biological Diversity, San Carlos Apache Tribe and Lower San Pedro Watershed Alliance sued two federal agencies to halt drilling for a copper mine that threatens Mexican spotted owls and other imperiled species near Arizona’s San Pedro River. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Nice USFWS must include specific measurable & enforceable RPMs and T&Cs in BOs E.g. details on cattle fencing (=type of fencing material, height, space btwn posts, who/how often monitored for damage, how soon it must be repaired, reports posted on public website etc) Or it’s “check’s in the mail”

Taylor McKinnon@publiccarbon.bsky.social · 3w ago

Now: A federal court victory requires federal agencies to provide quantitative, science-based endangered species protections on the Coronado National Forest, where fragile riparian critical habitat has for years been trashed by cattle grazing. Photo: USFWS biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Now: A federal court victory requires federal agencies to provide quantitative, science-based endangered species protections on the Coronado National Forest, where fragile riparian critical habitat has for years been trashed by cattle grazing. Photo: USFWS biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Administration: building roads will lower wildfire risk. Reality: wildfire ignitions in national forests are highest in lands within 50m of roads (7.99 fires/1000 ha), lowest in wilderness areas (1.75 fires/1000 ha) and designated roadless areas (1.97 fires/1000 ha). Roads = people. People = fire.

Three-decade record of contiguous-U.S. national forest wildfires indicates increased density of ignitions near roads - Fire Ecology

Background Roads play an important role in managing fire on the national forests. But roads also are known to increase ignitions and damage ecosystems. Roads may limit the size of wildfires, which may...

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The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w ago

Trump officials are moving to open nearly 45 million acres of wilderness in national forests to new roads and logging, removing protections that had been in place since 2001. nyti.ms/4zpkRBB

The Center for Biological Diversity released new footage today of a jaguar roaming the wilds of southern Arizona near a transnational wildlife movement corridor that is rapidly being closed by border wall construction. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Now: The Center for Biological Diversity today sued the Bureau of Land Management and Fish and Wildlife Service to end years of unlawful cattle grazing damage to endangered species habitat on the Gila River and in Gila Box Riparian National Conservation Area. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

The Trump administration today illegally slashed the size of Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments by about 90%. What a travesty. Next, legal action. Press release and my quote linked here: biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

The San Rafael Valley Southern #Arizona is one of the last remaining places where #jaguars from northern #Mexico can travel into their native range in the US. But that pathway is closing. 🎧 Learn more in our latest episode of Sounds Wild on Apple, Spotify, or at biodiv.us/soundswild

Now: The Center for today filed a 60-day notice of intent to sue FWS and AZGF for ESA violations relating to decades of federal funding of invasive fish stocking in Arizona, which has decimated the native fish and other aquatic species. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Now: Amid fierce local organizing and good old American civics, an aluminum plant threatening toxic air pollution in Benson, Arizona, and depletion of water from the biologically diverse San Pedro River was scrapped today. Robin Silver Photo biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Now: The Center for Biological Diversity today expanded our Big Bend litigation to challenge the Department of Homeland Security’s action on Tuesday waiving dozens of environmental laws to build border barriers and roads through Big Bend National Park. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Now: Tribal and conservation groups today sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop a land trade that would hand 715 acres of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge in south Texas to SpaceX. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Lawsuit Seeks to Stop SpaceX Land Deal From Destroying Texas Wildlife Refuge

Center for Biological Diversity: BROWNSVILLE, Texas— Tribal and conservation groups today sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop a land trade that would hand 715 acres of the Lower Rio Grande...

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Now The Center for Biological Diversity sued two Interior Dept. agencies today for failing to protect endangered species and their streamside habitat from unauthorized cattle and grazing damage in southern Arizona’s Las Cienegas National Conservation Area. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

An appeals court today rejected cattle growers' challenge to the Forest Service's removal of feral cattle from the Gila Wilderness. The Center had urged the dismissal. Three years cow-free, the Gila River's endangered species habitat is now recovering. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today for failing to finalize Endangered Species Act protections for the Quitobaquito tryonia, a tiny springsnail found only in Quitobaquito Springs in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Freshwater mussels are living water filters that help keep rivers clean, clear and healthy. We sued the USFWS this week for for failing to designate critical habitat for the endangered Texas hornshell, a freshwater mussel once common across the Rio Grande watershed in Texas and New Mexico. ⬇️

A trail cam check on Monday revealed 3 clips of a beautiful male jaguar in a Sky Island south of Tucson, in the ancestral lands of the Tohono O'odham. Jaguars’ northern range is being ripped apart by border wall, mining, groundwater depletion and climate-driven drought. @biologicaldiversity.org

New photos here of damage from CBP blading a 50-foot-wide border wall road through the desert intaglio - a 1000-year-old, 272-foot-long fish carved into the desert floor along the U.S.-Mexico border. It aims south to the Gulf of California 45 miles away. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

How writing about #extinction is an inherently hopeful act. therevelator.org/why-i-write-...

Why I Write About Extinction • The Revelator

Reporting on disappearing or lost species helps shine a light on the environmental threats we all face and the people working to stop them.

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My colleagues Calvin Farris (NPS) and Ellis Margolis (USGS) led a landmark study in paleofire reconstruction. In addition to showing that fire management can restore past fire regimes, the demonstrated methods are a first in dendrochronology. 1/6 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New fire study of eastern Mogollon Plateau: 2011 Wallow Fire, Arizona's largest on record, was similar in size to fires in 1748, 1847, 1851 Avg. return interval of fires > 100,000 ha is 20 years Fire deficit persists with 85% reduction in avg. annual area burned link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Size of modern megafire not unprecedented and a cumulative fire deficit persists - Fire Ecology

Background The area burned by wildfires in western North American forests has grown since the 1980s, largely driven by individual “megafires.” Despite breaking state records for fire size, it remains ...

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For the first time in decades, a radio-collared wolf last week relocated from the United States into Mexico. The wolf, dubbed “Cedar,” crossed through the last stretch of southern New Mexico without a border wall in the remote Bootheel region. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Endangered Mexican Wolf Crosses From New Mexico Into Chihuahua

Center for Biological Diversity: Border Wall Construction Could Sever Link Between Populations

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Now: The @biologicaldiversity.org today filed a notice of intent to sue federal agencies to end unauthorized livestock grazing damage to endangered species habitat on Arizona's upper Verde River, the second such suit against the agencies in recent years. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Now: The @biologicaldiversity.org today filed a notice of intent to sue the Trump administration over its plan to expand livestock grazing on public lands across the Western U.S., including within Grand Canyon National Park and several national monuments. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Lawsuit Launched to Protect Wildlife, Iconic Landscapes From Trump’s Expanded Grazing Plan

MISSOULA, Mont.— The Center for Biological Diversity notified the Trump administration today of its intent to sue over the government’s approval of a new expanded livestock grazing plan. The plan woul...

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Now: The Center for Biological Diversity, San Carlos Apache Tribe and Lower San Pedro Watershed Alliance just notified federal agencies of our intent to sue over Endangered Species Act violations at the Copper Creek Exploration Project near Mammoth, AZ. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Dozens of Tribal, conservation, faith, and community advocates today urged Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs not to auction thousands of acres of state trust land near the Gila River that would become a massive mine waste dump for the proposed Resolution copper mine. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Arizona Governor Urged to Block Massive Oak Flat Mine Waste Facility on State Land

Center for Biological Diversity: PHOENIX— Dozens of Tribal advocates, conservation groups, faith leaders and community organizations today urged Gov. Katie Hobbs to prevent the auction and conversion ...

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There is a huge shift in climate politics happening RIGHT NOW in Santa Marta, Colombia. Countries are meeting to discuss a treaty to phase out fossil fuels -- the one issue that #UNFCCC has studiously avoided for 30 years. 🧵