WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and Texas Campaign for the Environment filed an appeal today challenging a ...

The groundwater level has run dry in one of the court-ordered monitoring wells that protect federal water rights for the San ...

The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect a rare flower called the ...

The California legislature today passed a bill that greenlights tens of thousands of new oil and gas drilling permits in Kern County over the next decade with no further environmental review.

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services reported killing 375,045 native animals in 2023, according to recent data released by the program. The federal wildlife-killing ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— A study published today in the journal PeerJ shows the Endangered Species Act has saved roughly 99 percent of protected wildlife since its creation in 1973, demonstrating the law has ...

MIAMI— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has awarded a 2024 Regional Recovery Champion Award for the southeastern United States to the Pine Rocklands Conservation Team, a public-private partnership ...

Our planet now faces a global extinction crisis never witnessed by humankind. Scientists predict that more than 1 million species are on track for extinction in the coming decades. But there’s still ...

WASHINGTON— The EPA’s latest greenhouse gas inventory shows that agriculture continues to be the leading U.S. source of methane and nitrous oxide, two highly potent climate pollutants. The report, ...

DESCRIPTION: The largest of the world's penguin species, the emperor penguin stands almost four feet tall and weighs 70 to 90 pounds. It has a gray back, white belly, and orange markings behind its ...

Why are bats dying in North America? An estimated 6.7 million bats have died since 2006 because of an outbreak of white-nose syndrome, a fast-moving disease that has wiped out entire colonies and left ...

From coast to coast, the American bumblebee is part of the fabric of America’s grasslands and open spaces. Described before the United States won its independence, this fuzzy bee was once the most ...