Now that Donald Trump has reassumed the presidency of the United States, scientists and legal scholars are bracing for his potential dismantling of a host of the country’s most pivotal environmental ...

The bald eagle, American alligator and Louisiana black bear are just three of the nearly 300 species revived by the Endangered Species Act -- 50 years since it first took affect. The Endangered ...

We are on the cusp of losing the integrity of one of the most significant environmental acts ever enacted in the United States. Why should this matter? As the Pulitzer Prize-winning evolutionary ...

The piping plover is a federally endangered species in Pennsylvania. In 2017, a pair was found nesting on Presque Isle for the first time in 60 years. The federal Endangered Species Act is getting ...

More than 50 years after the bipartisan U.S. Endangered Species Act was passed unanimously in the Senate and by a vote of 355 to 4 in the House of Representatives, the federal government is proposing ...

Environmentalists are expressing their concerns that the Endangered Species Act could be gutted if proposed revisions are approved. The proposed rollback would eliminate the definition of "harm" that ...

It wouldn't make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down, or to bar killing endangered salmon while allowing a dam to dry out their ...

Senate Democrats are raising the alarm over the proposed change to the definition of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). A group, including Democratic Sens. Adam Schiff (Calif.), Cory Booker (N.J.) and ...

One of Yellowstone National Park’s oldest and most beloved matriarchs — known as “queen of the wolves” — died after a rival pack fight. NPS/Jeremy SunderRaj Yellowstone National Park At Point Defiance ...