A judge has rejected federal agencies’ approval of activities in the California Desert Conservation Area, including a vast ...

Our planet now faces a global extinction crisis never witnessed by humankind. Scientists predict that more than 1 million species are on track for extinction in the coming decades. But there’s still ...

WASHINGTON— Environmental and public health groups defended the nation's landmark environmental law in a brief filed today with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case challenging the law’s scope. Utah’s ...

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice today of its intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to protect the critically imperiled Railroad Valley toad under the ...

A perennial herb, the Florida brickell-bush is found exclusively in South Florida's pine rockland territory, specifically on the Miami Rock Ridge on the edges of Everglades National Park. At maturity ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— In response to a legal petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced this week that the Crater Lake newt (also known as the Mazama ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The California Fish and Game Commission voted today to protect western burrowing owls throughout California as a “candidate” species under the California Endangered Species Act.

KINGSTON, Tenn.— The Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of Appalachian Voices, the Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club, sued the Tennessee Valley Authority today for failing to ...