Prior to the European colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans harvested the wood of redbud trees to construct ...

But that’s exactly what the Trump administration is proposing to do by changing how one word in the Endangered Species Act is interpreted: harm. For 50 years, the U.S. government has interpreted ...

More than 900 known species are already extinct to date, while at least 28,500 others are listed as endangered or critically endangered by the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority.

Wilson considered the Endangered Species Act of 1973 the most important piece of conservation legislation in our nation’s history. I know what that means. I know because I lived it. Fifty years ...

It wouldn’t make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down, or to bar killing endangered salmon while allowing a dam to dry out ...

Take away these natural resources, and these icons of America will go extinct. For 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has provided bedrock legal protection for nature’s most vulnerable ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new species of poison dart frog, Ranitomeya aetherea, has been identified in a remote area of the Brazilian Amazon. Characterized by sky-blue lines, copper ...

May 29, 2025 — Researchers have identified a previously unknown species of unicellular organism in seawater collected near Hachijojima Island. The newly discovered species, named Viscidocauda ...

Once native to New York, these four fish no longer live here according to a recently updated list of imperiled species compiled by the state Department of Environmental Conservation. DEC’s ...