Climate change is the single greatest threat we've ever faced — not only to human society but to the Earth's web of life. The Center's Climate Law Institute was founded to unite our programs in ...

Monarch butterflies are important culturally and ecologically across North America. Generations have watched in wonder as yellow-and-black striped caterpillars fold into green-and-gold chrysalises and ...

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 ...

For every county in the United States, the map below shows information on all the animals and plants protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act as threatened or endangered. To see the number of ...

Biomass energy is made by burning living things like trees, crop residues, and other “woody biomass” to produce electricity. Like fossil fuels, biomass energy releases loads of planet-heating carbon ...

OAKLAND, Calif.— Most marine mammals and sea turtles in the United States that are protected by the Endangered Species Act are recovering, according to a peer-reviewed study published today by the ...

Every day we make choices in our lives that affect the environment, the climate and other species. From what we eat to how many children we decide to have, there’s a lot we can do to “choose wild” and ...

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 ...

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 ...

DESCRIPTION: The Andean flamingo is both the most rare and tallest of all six species of flamingo. It has a traditional pink coloration throughout its body, with a pale yellow face and black tail ...

President Donald Trump’s U.S. Department of Agriculture wants to undo a landmark 2001 policy called the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. This administrative rulemaking would open nearly 45 million ...

Sacred to Western Apache and other Indigenous people, the beautiful lands of Oak Flat, Arizona are also habitat for species like endangered ocelots and Arizona hedgehog cacti. Sadly this place of ...