Around the world, some animal species have become so rare that only a handful remain in the wild. Habitat destruction, ...

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 ...

Extinction rates are not spiraling upward as many believe, according to a large-scale study analyzing 500 years of data. Researchers found that species losses peaked about a century ago and have ...

The Australian Conservation Foundation (AFC) conducted an analysis revealing that the federal government approved more than 57,000 hectares (140,850 acres) of threatened species habitat to be ...

“There’s a piping plover here somewhere,” said Corrie Folsom-O’Keefe, reacting to a faint peeping on a recent foggy, cloudy, on-and-off-rainy afternoon along Sandy Point Beach in West Haven. And then ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service downgraded the red-cockaded woodpecker from endangered to threatened on Oct. 24, 2024. (Renee Bodine/USFWS) (CN) — The U.S. Department of the Interior on Wednesday ...

Australia’s recent land use change has steadily reduced and degraded native vegetation, shrinking the amount of intact habitat available to wildlife and weakening ecosystem resilience. Clearing has ...

Destruction of Habitat: Beekeeper's Claims Against Monsanto Cleared to Proceed, Judge Says Dicamba-based herbicides allegedly resulted in the destruction of plant habitat for the honeybees and, in ...

Fears of another global pandemic erupted this month after the MV Hondius cruise ship became the centre of a deadly hantavirus outbreak. The latest World Health Organization (WHO) Disease Outbreak News ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON— Three hundred and fifty scientists, 25 law professors and 131 conservation and community organizations spoke out today against a Trump administration proposal intended to weaken habitat ...