WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the American bumblebee, whose populations have plummeted by nearly 90%, may warrant Endangered Species Act protection. The ...

WASHINGTON— President Trump’s proposed budget would end funding of research for America’s bees coordinated by the U.S. Geological Survey Bee Lab. The budget proposal eliminates all $307 million in ...

This 2-foot-long, black-masked member of the weasel family once occurred in central grasslands and basins from southern Canada to Texas but is now one of the most endangered mammals in North America.

The Trump administration on April 16, 2025, issued a proposed rule to rescind nearly all habitat protections for endangered species across the country. The proposal has profound, life-altering ...

HONOLULU— Kāpaʻa, the Conservation Council for Hawai‘i and the Center for Biological Diversity, represented by Earthjustice, ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

Today’s lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service says a biological opinion released today, required under the Endangered Species Act, is inadequate. The Fisheries Service was required to ...

The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect Bendire’s thrasher under ...

Conservation groups intervened today in a lawsuit brought by the timber industry and counties seeking to strip northern ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Several groups and an Alaska resident filed suit today to protect endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales and ...

Leading wildlife experts and wolf biologists today urged the University of California, Davis, to take corrective action after the school published a misleading article about wolves.