The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected the swale paintbrush as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. This ...

Conservation groups reached a legal agreement with the National Marine Fisheries Service today that requires the agency to determine by August 1, 2025, whether the tope shark warrants protection under ...

LOS ANGELES— The Center for Biological Diversity has awarded the 2024 “Rose Braz Award for Bold Activism” to Cesar Aguirre. Living in Bakersfield, the heart of California oil country, Aguirre works ...

The Town Council of Carrboro, N.C., will hold a news conference Wednesday at the Carrboro Town Hall to announce a major legal action addressing the climate emergency.

The town of Carrboro sued Duke Energy Corp. today for the company’s decades-long role in a nationwide climate deception scheme that has worsened the climate crisis, harmed the community and cost the ...

The Center for Biological Diversity sued the city of Pittsburg, California, Monday for approving a development, including a ...

Environmental and public health groups opposing a Utah oil train's efforts to shortcut environmental review will hold a virtual press briefing on Tuesday, Dec. 3, to outline the arguments the U.S.

Conservation groups sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management today for approving a massive logging operation in the Garnet Mountains that would threaten important connectivity habitat for grizzly bears ...

Bog turtles are North America’s smallest turtles, measuring about the length of a human thumb. They’re also one of the ...

TUCSON— In response to a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed ...

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz.— President Biden used the Antiquities Act today to designate the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument in northern ...

The resilient mountain lion goes by many names: puma, cougar, panther, catamount and even “ghost cat.” Over the past century in California, it has survived habitat loss and government-sponsored ...