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Polar Bear SOS!

The bear is sliding toward extinction, imperiled by climate change and trophy hunters.

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  • Science In Defense of a National Treasure: EPA Releases Draft Assessment of...

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took a major step forward today in its review of petitions to intervene in the intensifying battle over the proposed Pebble Mine in the Bristol Bay region of southwest Alaska.  After fifteen months of study,...

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  • Otero Mesa; Search for Rare Earth Threatens a Desert Bio-Gem

    An essential mineral ingredient used in a variety of electronics from cell phones to smart bombs could be a death knell for a pristine part of a wild New Mexico desert grassland coveted by environmentalists—and considered sacred to Native Americans....

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Now more than ever, North and South America’s last wildlands and rarest wildlife are under threat from large-scale logging, mining and industrialization.

NRDC’s Biogems Initiative harnesses the power of online citizen activism to help save our continent’s most endangered natural treasures — our Biogems — for the sake of a sustainable planet and all future generations.

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