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 ...

Dave Miller: This is Think Out Loud on OPB. I’m Dave Miller. The Trump administration is proposing to change the definition of “harm” under the regulation of the Endangered Species Act. For decades ...

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 ...

The Trump administration is proposing to significantly limit the Endangered Species Act's power to preserve crucial habitats by changing the definition of one word: harm. On Wednesday, the ...

With each passing year, species across the United States face an uncertain future. As habitats continue to be destroyed, climate change destabilizes weather patterns, and invasive species take over ...

A proposed change to the Endangered Species Act has local environmental groups worried. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are looking to repeal the ...

While conservation efforts have bolstered the populations of many species considered to be threatened in 2025, many animal and plant species continue to dwindle in number, with some even going extinct ...

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 ...

Last week, agencies at the Departments of Interior and Commerce proposed rule changes that could have far-reaching consequences, essentially upending longstanding and court-upheld interpretations of ...