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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Read a statement from 30 scientists, doctors and public-health experts from Harvard, Cornell, Rutgers and other universities about the "overwhelming evidence for the toxic effects of lead in humans ...

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

When a Chiricahua leopard frog wants attention, it snores — at least, its distinctive call sounds like a snore. But the sound of snoring around desert streams, springs and even stock tanks is a lot ...

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

Trump’s USDA wants to undo the landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule. That would open about 58.5 million acres of wild, unfragmented national forests to road construction, logging, and other ...