In Vienna, Europe's second-largest cemetery has embraced biodiversity – without disturbing the dead. Some of the greats are ...

Creating genomes from DNA is hugely important for managing threatened species—understanding their past and how they have ...

On a recent sunny morning, a small group of conservationists heads into battle in the hills above Redwood City. They don an ...

The Center for Biological Diversity announced today it has sued the Trump administration for delaying critical Endangered ...

A rare animal was found dead in an unexpected location on a Florida highway outside the endangered species' normal habitat. A male Florida panther, estimated to be 2 to 3 years old, was killed by a ...

Morro manzanita, a candidate for the California Endangered Species Act, is only found in the coastal town and the surrounding ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing added protections for seven species of pangolin under the Endangered Species ...

Since passage of the Endangered Species Act 50 years ago, more than 1,700 plants, mammals, fish, insects and other species in the U.S. have been listed as threatened or endangered with extinction.

The Endangered Species Act has always been about preserving fragile populations of plants and animals and the lands upon which they are found — simply because the former can’t be achieved ...

The Endangered Species Act was just one part of his contributions to environmental conservation. So, while Congress passed the act as we know it on Dec. 28, 1973, ...