Currently, the planet is undergoing its sixth mass extinction event. While mass extinctions have occurred naturally in the ...

The committee has approved an exemption to endangered species protections for just the third time in its history ...

The Oregon Zoo released 22 northwestern pond turtles into the Columbia River Gorge to boost the endangered species' ...

New York advocates are celebrating wildlife protections for Endangered Species Day. This year marks the 21st anniversary and ...

This snail became the first animal living on deep-sea hydrothermal vents to be added to the IUCN Red List of Threatened ...

The defense attorney representing a Washington state man accused of throwing a rock toward an endangered Hawaiian monk seal ...

Smithsonian scientists discuss the impact of the first federal law designed to save endangered and imperiled animals from extinction. Mike Bock Kirtland’s warblers were among the first animals to ...

As a controversial mining project in the western Upper Peninsula works to renew a critical wastewater permit, environmental ...

The Trump administration proposed a new rule Wednesday that would rescind widespread habitat protections for species protected under the Endangered Species Act, a landmark law enacted in 1973 to ...