The Center for Biological Diversity, conservation partners and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are offering rewards totaling more than $65,000 for information leading to arrests and convictions in ...

California’s pesticide regulators released preliminary findings today linking the herbicide paraquat to risks to wildlife and human health harms, including thyroid disease and birth defects.

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to provide habitat ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature assessed the blue tree monitor lizard as endangered in 2017, finding that the animals face a very high risk of extinction in the wild. The species is ...

Bluefin tuna are an ocean-going fish that grow up to 10 feet long and can weigh as much as 1,200 pounds. Unlike almost all fish, bluefin tuna are warm-blooded and able to regulate their body ...

DESCRIPTION: Walruses are easily distinguished by their long, white tusks, cinnamon-brown skin, grizzled whiskers, and bodies full of blubber. Growing up to 3,750 pounds, male Pacific walruses are ...

OAKLAND— NOAA Fisheries has released preliminary data showing that 34 whales have been confirmed entangled in fishing gear off the U.S. West Coast in 2024. That number is higher than for any other ...

Synthetic phosphate fertilizer poses a serious threat to our environment. Phosphate rock mining, along with the inorganic fertilizers and animal feed supplements and pesticides for which phosphate is ...

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 ...

The Trump administration proposed to dramatically expand offshore drilling off every coast — in the Pacific, Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Arctic. At the same time, it rolled back offshore drilling ...

Can you think of a more destructive way to extract resources than blowing up a mountain? How about if the waste from doing it is dumped straight into mountain streams? Mountaintop removal is a radical ...

CARRBORO, N.C.— The Town Council of Carrboro, N.C., will hold a news conference Wednesday at the Carrboro Town Hall to announce a major legal action addressing the climate emergency. What: Town of ...