Ahead of a long weekend where millions will flock to beaches around the United States, conservationists petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday to ban two chemicals found in sunscreen that are known to irreparably damage coral reefs.
Read moreMarine wildlife populations like Florida manatees and California sea otters are bouncing back in protected habitats throughout the United States, according to a study from the Center for Biological Diversity.
Read moreThe ancient lake sturgeon should be listed as endangered or threatened, a conservation group said in a petition filed Monday with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Read moreTwo federal agencies violated the Endangered Species Act by delaying a decision on whether to extend protections to the San Joaquin Valley giant flower-loving fly, according to a federal lawsuit filed Friday.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity claims in a federal complaint that the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service failed to do their nondiscretionary duty to prepare management plans for eight California rivers under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration Thursday over its denial of Endangered Species Act protection to Pacific walrus.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity claims in a federal complaint that the streaked horned lark was improperly listed as threatened rather than endangered, though fewer than 1,600 of the songbirds survive in Oregon and Washington.
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The U.S. population of Mexican wolves in the wild grew by one last year, from 113 to 114, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, far fewer than the 750 wild wolves that environmentalists say are needed to sustain the species.
Read moreEnvironmentalists blasted President Donald Trump’s 2019 budget on Tuesday, saying proposed cuts to programs designed to protect endangered species essentially amount to a death sentence.
Read moreA Trump administration delay in Obama-era rules governing release of toxic pollutants into water violates the Endangered Species Act and puts people, plants and animals at risk, the Center for Biological Diversity said Tuesday in federal court.
Read moreEnvironmental groups say the White House’s long-awaited infrastructure plan, expected to be unveiled Tuesday during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, will undermine protections for endangered species.
Read moreA conservation group said Thursday it’s ready to sue the federal government for failing to protect the Tinian monarch, a songbird found only in the Northern Mariana Islands.
Read moreA proposed housing development in Southern California would block the local mountain lion population from reaching the coast and imperil their survival, conservation groups say in a lawsuit filed Thursday.
Read moreThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday it would keep federal protections for Southwest migrant bird but declined to list a Georgia snail because it is already extinct.
Read moreThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made announcements Tuesday regarding its actions on prairie-dogs, leopards and five other imperiled species.
Read moreConservation groups on Friday lobbied a federal judge for permission to join a fight between the federal government and a ranching association over a trio of California amphibian species.
Read moreFishing nets are just one of many problems the humpback whale population faces along the Pacific Coast, and a conservation group says the Trump administration is not doing enough to protect the whale’s habitat.
Read moreInstead of protecting imperiled species, the Trump administration poses an additional and significant threat to their survival, an environmental group claims.
Read moreDozens of conservation groups asked the federal government this week to invest at least $100 million in milkweed plants to help the monarch butterfly population, which has taken a hit due to herbicides used in the Corn Belt region of the Midwest.
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