This proposal has drawn criticism from legal scholars and conservationists, who argue that habitat modification poses a major ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than 50 years, the Endangered Species Act protected imperiled species' habitats from destruction. The Trump administration proposed a rule on Wednesday to change the interpretation of a key ...

“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 ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that three Brazilian butterflies will be listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. Today’s listing follows a 2021 lawsuit by ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. Warming temperatures at night combined with habitat ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...