More than 50 years after the bipartisan U.S. Endangered Species Act was passed unanimously in the Senate and 355-4 in the ...

Through new research, a team in Montana State University's College of Agriculture has published a comprehensive look at ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed adding the rare white orchid as an endangered species after population steeply ...

The fight to save the hellbender illustrates the role national parks can play in saving species like this one from extinction.

There are only an estimated 1,500 ghost orchids remaining in Florida, and less than half are known to be mature enough to ...

When law makers discuss protecting endangered species, they mostly think about protecting mammals. Yet, S.C.'s diverse plant population is also threatened.

As a result, the many species that depend on them for food, including the critically endangered Southern Resident orcas — an icon of Seattle and Northwest Tribes for thousands of years — have ...

Projects, by both Colossal and other groups, are underway around the world to help endangered species develop disease resistance or evolve to tolerate a warmer world. Other projects use gene editing ...

The Center for Biological Diversity has called on U.S. Fish and Wildlife to protect the Bendire's thrasher amid report on declining bird populations.

Thousands of monarch butterflies are making their annual arrival in Minnesota — one of the final destinations on the insects’ ...

It wouldn’t make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down ...

Preservation Virginia has released its annual list of historic places in the Commonwealth facing imminent or sustained threats. The “Virginia’s Most Endangered Historic Places” list is ...