With each passing year, species across the United States face an uncertain future. As habitats continue to be destroyed, climate change destabilizes weather patterns, and invasive species take over ...

The Trump administration is proposing to significantly limit the Endangered Species Act's power to preserve crucial habitats by changing the definition of one word: harm. On Wednesday, the ...

Wood storks were listed as endangered in 1984, when its population had dropped by over 75 percent—from roughly 20,000 nesting pairs to about 5,000 nesting pairs—primarily due to wetland loss.

Mt. Graham is known as a sky island, a mountain ecosystem surrounded by a “sea of desert.” Its isolation makes the Mt. Graham ...

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 their ...

HONOLULU— In response to litigation from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today designated 119,326 acres as protected critical habitat for 11 plants and a ...

An endangered 13-year-old giraffe has died after getting caught in a door in his zoo habitat. Kiko, a male Masai giraffe, was born at the Greenville Zoo in South Carolina before he was moved to the ...

Green sea turtles, like this hatchling in Florida, are endangered due in part to habitat destruction and fishing nets. (Keenan Adams/USFWS) It wouldn’t make much sense to prohibit people from shooting ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— Following a court-ordered agreement, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday proposed protecting nearly 1.2 million acres of ­­critical habitat for the endangered Florida ...

The Trump administration is proposing to significantly limit the Endangered Species Act's power to preserve crucial habitats by changing the definition of one word: harm. On Wednesday, the ...

The Trump administration is reinterpreting a key word in the Endangered Species Act that could have big consequences for the habitats of species... Destroying endangered species' habitat wouldn't ...