Health and conservation groups sued the Bureau of Land Management today, challenging its approvals of new oil and gas drilling permits on public lands in California’s San Joaquin Valley.

The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to release records documenting its finding that insecticides sprayed across millions of acres in 17 states ...

WASHINGTON— Six of the nation’s largest utility corporations netted more than $10 billion in profits while disconnecting ...

Under the first Trump administration, only 25 species were granted lifesaving protections under the Endangered Species Act — the lowest number of any administration. Many species, such as wolverines ...

A federal court approved an agreement today that requires the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to determine by July 27, 2028, ...

Environmental and community groups have appealed the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality’s decision to grant an air ...

The Center Biological Diversity sent a letter today to President Trump’s Office of Management and Budget and other federal agencies demanding more information on whether the so-called Department of ...

In response to a lawsuit from conservation groups, the Federal Highway Administration and Arizona Department of ...

In January 2025 a paper published in Current Biology (Ghezelayagh et al. 2025) explained that genetic analysis demonstrated that snail darters (Percina tanasi) represented a population of the more ...

A federal judge today upheld efforts by the U.S. Forest Service to remove feral cattle from the Gila Wilderness, America’s first designated wilderness and one of the Southwest’s largest ecologically ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today denied endangered status for the Florida manatee and proposed to protect the Antillean manatee of Puerto Rico as endangered. A 2022 ...

The planet's wondrous web of life — which took 4 billion years to evolve — is vanishing in the blink of an eye. Under relentless pressure from habitat destruction, invasive species and climate change, ...