MADISON, WI — In the long and storied history of earth, there have been five mass extinctions, the most famous, of course, being the dinosaurs. Believe it or not, humans and the earth are experiencing ...

Three Democratic U.S. senators are asking the Trump administration to explain how it analyzed a proposed rule to eliminate habitat protections for endangered and threatened species and whether ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released its draft Insecticide Strategy, a guidance document establishing a framework to protect more than 850 endangered plants and animals ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

After decades of debate in the US over how to manage insecticides’ unintended harms to endangered species, farm groups are supporting the US Environmental Protection Agency’s latest strategy to ...

EPA proposed a strategy Thursday to reduce insecticide exposure to hundreds of federally listed endangered species that includes a wide range of mitigation measures addressing spray drift and erosion.

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 a ...

Earthjustice has filed suit on behalf of four groups alleging the National Marine Fisheries Service has failed to provide proper protections from offshore drilling activities in the Gulf of Mexico The ...

Photo Provided by Jonathan Mays, FWC - Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, for WMNF News. Florida ranks seventh among U.S. states in biodiversity, with over 4500 different animal species and ...

Washington, DC—The Prohibiting Threatened and Endangered Creature Trophies (ProTECT) Act (H.R. 1934) was reintroduced yesterday by Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA). The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) commends ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released its Vulnerable Species Action Plan, setting forth a blueprint for helping to prevent the extinction of 27 of the plants and animals ...

The Iowa skipper butterfly, once prevalent in prairies across the middle of the U.S., is now at risk of extinction — according to the Center for Food Safety, which has petitioned federal agencies to ...