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Urge your Representative to co-sponsor the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act.

Federal officials have launched a final attempt to ram through a plan that could lead to the slaughter of as many as two-thirds of the Greater Yellowstone and Northern Rockies wolf population.

Support science over special interests. Take action now to let your elected officials know that you oppose legislation to turn back the clock on Cape Hatteras.

Write your Senators and urge support for the Great Cats and Rare Canids Act!

Urge the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to adopt a responsible management plan for wolves in Greater Yellowstone and the Northern Rockies.

Call your Representative to urge support for real energy solutions -- not more dirty drilling.

Southwest wolves are struggling to survive: the latest population count confirms only 4 breeding pairs, and 52 wolves total, in the wild! Sign the petition to support sensible, science-based management of struggling Southwest wolves

Urge your Members of Congress to help stop the Bush/Cheney assault on the Endangered Species Act.

AZ, CA, MT, NM, OR, UT, WA residents Only Urge your governor to take action to save wildlife in your state from the harmful impacts of climate change.

NJ residents only - Send a message to your state legislators and to Governor Corzine to thank them for passing legislation to continue a ban on horseshoe crab harvesting in New Jersey to help save the red knot from extinction.

AZ & NM Residents Only - Southwest wolves are struggling to survive: the latest population count confirms only 4 breeding pairs, and 52 wolves total, in the wild! Urge your members of Congress to support sensible, science-based management of struggling Southwest wolves

Over a quarter of the U.S.-Mexico border runs through national parks, forests, wildlife refuges and wilderness areas -- important habitat that jaguars, wolves, ocelots, Sonoran pronghorns, burrowing owls and other imperiled species need to survive.

Urge your Senators to support The Ship Strike Reduction Act of 2008 -- vital legislation to protect struggling right whales.

Urge your Senators to reject drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and support permanent protections for this special place.

Help ensure a lasting future for wolves in Greater Yellowstone and the Northern Rockies and provide a needed boost for wolf recovery and management efforts in the Southwest, Northeast and Pacific Northwest.

Write to the Montana Promotion Division -- the state's tourism officials -- and speak out for sensible wildlife management of these American icons!

MT residents only - Write to Montana's Governor and speak out for sensible wildlife management of these American icons!

Urge your Representative to sign on as a cosponsor to the Bear Protection Act (H.R. 5534) -- a bill that would help save America's bears.

Firefly, it's called, this new small satellite mission sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). It's designed to help solve the mystery of the most powerful natural particle accelerator in Earth's atmosphere: TGFs, or terrestrial gamma-ray flashes. TGFs likely result from thunderstorms.

The mission is the second project under the new NSF CubeSat program. A CubeSat satellite, about the size of a loaf of bread, consists of three cubes attached end to end in a rectangular ...
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