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The EPA's New Strategies to Protect Endangered Species from Pesticides Need Improvement
12. September 2024
Court Tells Federal Agency to Rethink Widespread Pesticide Spray Program
29. August 2024
Xerces is Seeking Endangered Species Act Protection for the Imperiled Makah Copper Butterfly
16. August 2024
What We Can Learn From Québec’s Success With Regulating Pesticide-Treated Seed
16. May 2024
States Make Way for Pesticide Reforms
27. July 2023
Without State-Level Protection, These Invertebrates Face an Uncertain Future
20. April 2023
Insects Are Wildlife, Too
18. April 2023
D.C. Monarch Summit Secures Funding for Monarch Conservation
7. July 2022
Intrinsically Linked: Why Climate-Smart Agriculture Must Not Neglect Biodiversity
21. April 2022
Applying a Holistic Approach to Monarch Conservation
22. April 2021
WARNING: this blog post may entice you to partake in “virtual democracy”
17. March 2021
Xerces Urges California to Step Up for Pollinators
21. October 2020
Working from the (river) bottom up to conserve the western ridged mussel
17. August 2020
12 Climate Actions for Earth Week
18. April 2020
The Vanishing Butterfly Groves of California
27. January 2020
Insects Lose as Trump Administration Weakens the Endangered Species Act
29. August 2019
Taking a Stand for Firefly Species Facing Extinction
15. May 2019
National Butterfly Center Gets Reprieve—But Border Wall Will Impact Much More
15. February 2019
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – January 2019
28. January 2019
Pollinators and the 2018 Farm Bill
10. January 2019
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – December 2018
17. December 2018
Reflections and Exhortations on the Anniversary of the Clean Water Act
18. October 2018
The Xerces Society Seeks Endangered Species Protections for California Bumble Bees
16. October 2018
Celebrating the Legacy of Rachel Carson
27. September 2018
The Endangered Species Act Needs Your Help!
29. August 2018
Scientists Urge Action to Protect Waters from Neonicotinoid Insecticides
13. March 2018
California Halts Consideration of New Uses of Neonicotinoids in the State
8. January 2018
Don’t Downsize the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument
24. July 2017
Rusty Patched Bumble Bee Deserves Protection, Not Delay
2. March 2017
Rusty Patched Bumble Bee: The First Bee in the Continental U.S. to be Protected Under the Endangered Species Act
11. January 2017
New Report: How Neonicotinoids Can Kill Bees
14. December 2016
Shortfalls of EPA’s Preliminary Risk Assessment for Imidacloprid
7. January 2016
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