WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a notice of intent to sue the Trump administration for failing to protect nine imperiled species under the Endangered Species Act, including ...

Our planet now faces a global extinction crisis never witnessed by humankind. Scientists predict that more than 1 million species are on track for extinction in the coming decades. But there’s still ...

Plastic fills our dumps, homes and oceans. Plastic pollution takes a huge toll on wildlife: More than 700 species, including sea turtles, fish and whales, eat plastic or get tangled up in it. Plastic ...

Our push for smarter land-use planning has led to the permanent protection of hundreds of thousands of acres throughout California.

We're in the midst of the Earth’s sixth mass extinction crisis. Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson estimated that 30,000 species per year (or three species per hour) are being driven to extinction.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.— Conservation groups have filed a legal challenge to the Tennessee Valley Authority on the grounds that it violated the National Environmental Policy Act when the federal power ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The Bureau of Land Management’s new recreational plan for California’s Algodones Dunes will eliminate protections on more than 40,000 acres of crucial habitat for rare and ...

Dakota skipper photo by Robert Dana, USFWS. Photos are available for media use. “These remarkable little butterflies have a long flight to recovery, but Endangered Species Act protection will help ...

WASHINGTON— Conservation groups will go before a federal judge Dec. 17 to challenge the controversial removal of federal Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in Wyoming. What: ...

Just as nature inspires art, art inspires actions to defend wild places and the wild creatures that live in them. With this in mind, the Center for Biological Diversity's Endangered Species Mural ...

The grizzly bear is so named because its hair is grizzled, or silver tipped, but the name is commonly believed to be derived from “grisly,” meaning “horrible.” DESCRIPTION: A subspecies of brown bear, ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...