The critically endangered Pacific pocket mouse carries key genes that help it survive rising heat and drought as climate ...

New Jersey has reclassified 30 wildlife species found in the state as endangered or threatened, environmental officials announced this week. The new additions to New Jersey’s endangered species list ...

Photographs of a leopard snapped by camera traps in forests in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts have raised hopes among conservationists working to save the critically endangered species.

WASHINGTON— In a sweeping assault on the nation’s imperiled wildlife, the Trump administration today proposed a suite of regulations that would dismantle the Endangered Species Act and drive hundreds ...

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 ...

Nearly 300 birds, fish, mammals and other critters have federal protection in the Golden State.

New research identifies 10,443 critically endangered species worldwide, with effective protection strategies available if funding and political will follow. More than 1,500 species, or 15% of the ...

A California tiger salamander is photographed in a wetland in 2022 by officials from the Sacramento Fish and Wildlife Office. (File photo by Michael van Hattem/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) This ...

Critics of proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act say the move could affect efforts to save species facing extinction Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

New exhibits will feature endangered species like red pandas, Bornean orangutans and could leopards. The Topeka Zoo announced a five-year master plan to add several new animal exhibits. The total cost ...

The Trump administration has proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act to reduce federal regulations. One proposal would eliminate automatic protections for threatened species, known as the ...