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Despite the thousands of our activists and many more across the country who raised their voices in opposition, the Endangered Species Committee voted today to exempt oil and gas development in the Gulf from the #EndangeredSpeciesAct.📲 https://ow.ly/CCMq50YBnGF
UCS' @carlonimbus.bsky.social provides the latest on the Trump Administration's dismantlement of NCAR, and how we can use our voices to save it, together.
Learn more: act.ucsusa.org/3Pk1He5
Let Congress know that you support the current protections for the almost 2 million acres of #GrandStaircaseEscalante National Monument to safeguard Indigenous sites, endangered #wildlife, and water: https://ow.ly/k9qF50Yvnot
📸 Jim Shane
💐 SPRING IS HERE 💐
The spring equinox occurs TODAY 🌕
What is your favorite species of wildlife or plant that you want to see this spring? 🌻🦋🌷🐝
1️⃣ Rufous hummingbird
2️⃣ Painted lady butterfly
3️⃣ Hummingbird moth
4️⃣ Monarch butterfly
📸: Tom Koerner/USFWS
New jobs this week on the ESA Career Center:
* Chief Science Officer, Echo Labs (UK)
* Associate Professor or Professor of Plant Biology, Penn State Behrend
* Assistant Professor, AI for Ag & Natural Resources, University of Maryland
Find your next move with us! https://www.esacareercenter.org/
Protecting wildlife on campus? You could receive up to $8,500 for your project!
NWF & Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom have renewed our collaboration to fund innovative, solutions-based higher education programs.
Learn more about the 2026 program and apply by March 13th 📲: https://ow.ly/BoXI50Y8o7S
Save Oak Flat from a giant copper mine‼️🚨
Tell Congress to #ProtectOakFlat from destructive copper mining that would destroy wildlife 🐾habitat & decimate lands that are sacred for Indigenous communities. 🌄
📢 Take action today: https://ow.ly/AU5O50XNePU
📹 Video: Coati in Oak Flat
BES grant application is now open. Image shows a diver photographing a large whale shark underwater, with the British Ecological Society logo.
We are now accepting grant applications to fund ecological research and outreach worldwide.
⏰Apply before 10 March 2026!
Find out what grants you can apply to 👇
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The U.S.'s decision to withdraw from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change will leave the country less prepared for the impacts of climate change and weaken our competitiveness in the global clean energy race.
Read more:📲 https://ow.ly/2TjL50XTyJc
Honors Nominations Now Open: Recognize Achievements in Earth and Space Sciences AGU recognizes individuals and teams who have made outstanding contributions to the Earth and space sciences through scientific research, education, science communication and outreach. Whether for your own contributions and accomplishments or those of a remarkable mentor or colleague, recognize the excellence of a worthy candidate by nominating them for an AGU Honor! See important deadlines below: Union Medals, Awards & Prizes due Monday, 2 March. Hydrology Section Awards & Lectures due Monday, 2 March (only for Hydro Section). Fellows, Section Awards & Lectures, Scholarships & Grants due Friday, 13 March.
Nominations for @agu.org AGU awards are now being accepted!
Please nominate a deserving colleague. Many qualified people do not win awards because no one nominates them. Also, for many AGU awards, you can self-nominate.
www.agu.org/honors
Registration is now open for experts interested in reviewing the first draft of the IPCC Methodology Report on Inventories for Short-lived Climate Forcers!
Register here 🔗 https://apps.ipcc.ch/comments/slcf/ until midnight CET on 13 February 2026.
Read more 🔗 https://bit.ly/SLCFfod
Tell Congress to #ProtectOakFlat from destructive copper mining that would destroy wildlife habitat & decimate lands that are sacred for Indigenous communities.
Take action today 📢: https://ow.ly/vaRI50XNePR
Video 📹: Mountain lions in Oak Flat
You’ve been meaning to submit your comments on the proposed gutting of the Endangered Species Act, right? Here’s a quick and easy link:
🚨 Calling all geoscientists 🚨 If you or anyone you know is attending #AGU25, please join us and spread the word to #SaveNCAR.
More info at: wclivestream.com/ncar_at_agu/
@ucs.org has released a letter you can write to your Congressperson to save @ncar-ucar.bsky.social
Share your voice on the significant value of this bedrock climate and weather insitution. Your story matters!
secure.ucs.org/a/2025-prote...
On Jan 8th, join NWF and the #CleanEconomyCoalitionofColor at a virtual roundtable discussion on what the recent growth in AI data centers means for your communities’ health and local resources.
RSVP today:📲 https://ow.ly/Tjzy50XHBz2
Take action for #manatees! 📣
Manatees are just one of thousands of #wildlife species in our country being directly harmed by EPA cuts.
📲 Tell Congress to intervene and save crucial #EPA programs that protect and save manatees:
https://ow.ly/Oxw350XFQVa
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s draft rule narrowing the scope of the Clean Water Act will protect fewer streams and wetlands from pollution and destruction than at any point since the law’s passage in 1972.
Read the press release 📲: https://ow.ly/wHEq50XtGe2
The ESA Task Force on Actionable Ecological Research seeks input on advancing actionable, solutions-oriented, community-wide research priorities. Please review & share your thoughts by 11/5. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUttCw...
Feeling powerless about threats to conservation science programs? Wondering what you can do to help protect our nation’s biodiversity?
Join us IN PERSON for the Voices for Conservation Rally and #StandUpForWildlife on Wednesday, October 22 in Washington DC #ConservationinCrisis mobilize.us/s/Iss6D3
Feeling powerless about threats to conservation science programs? Wondering what you can do to help protect our nation’s biodiversity?
Join us IN PERSON for the Voices for Conservation Rally and #StandUpForWildlife on Wednesday, October 22 in Washington DC #ConservationinCrisis mobilize.us/s/Iss6D3
📣 Attention: Early-career researchers from developing countries & countries in transition!
Are you interested in becoming a Chapter Scientist and supporting author teams for #IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report?
Apply by 18 Oct 2025
🔗 www.ipcc.ch/2025/10/07/c...
Over recent weeks, many news agencies highlighted this review of DOE Climate Working Group Report. Now with doi.
Dessler, A.E. and R.E. Kopp (Ed.). (2025). Climate Experts’ Review of the DOE Climate Working Group Report. doi.org/10.22541/ess...
@andrewdessler.com @bobkopp.net et al.
2 DAYS LEFT to speak out to save the Roadless Rule! ⌛🌲
Help us reach our goal of 20k comments to protect black bears, elk, salmon, trout, and other #wildlife from roadbuilding and development. #RoadlessRule
Take action today 📲: ow.ly/TCFz50WXGRX
Climate scientists - sign on by Sept. 18 to oppose EPA's overturning of the endangerment finding.
Vast, wild, public lands for #wildlife are at risk. 🦅🌄🐺🦌🐾
Tell your senators to oppose efforts to revoke responsible land stewardship plans for millions of acres of #publiclands. #CongressionalReviewAct #Alaska #Montana #NorthDakota
📲 support.nwfactionfund.org/page/87935/a...
Have you been meaning to comment on EPA’s proposal to overturn the endangerment finding, but haven’t gotten around to it? Here’s an easy and quick way to submit your comment:
🚨 Only one week left to speak out and defend federal #climateaction!
Send a message to the EPA and tell them to honor decades of sound science and uphold their responsibility to protect people and wildlife from #climate pollution.
📲 ow.ly/OJIQ50WRkGi
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