The world’s first dedicated platypus refuge will be established to rescue the unique Australian animals from climate change-fueled crises, as bushfires and drought increasingly threaten their habitat.
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Federal appellate judges heard debate over whether claims of bias against two commissioners who approved the power line’s construction are enough to halt the project.
Read moreFour conservation groups filed a federal lawsuit against the USDA’s Rural Utilities Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife in an effort to stop construction of a giant power line that would run through protected wildlife refuges in Wisconsin.
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A federal judge in Alaska Tuesday denied injunctive relief to environmental groups on the eve of a first-ever oil and gas lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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A Wisconsin federal judge decided on Friday to let environmentalists challenging a multistate power line corridor proceed with their claims against two state commissioners they claim were biased in approving the corridor in the face of conflicts of interest.
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As it makes its reluctant exit from the White House, the Trump administration will issue a call to enterprising oil and gas developers eyeballing Alaska: the time is now to secure drilling rights in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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Issues surrounding a multistate power line corridor approved by a Wisconsin public service agency were argued in Madison federal court Monday by parties ranging from the agency to the transmission companies building the corridor and environmental advocates fighting its construction.
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The National Butterfly Center in South Texas has brought legal challenges against both the Trump administration and a group raising money for a privately funded border wall.
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Two beluga whales from a Shanghai aquarium have taken their first swim in open waters as part of their acclimatization to an Icelandic sea sanctuary, conservationists said Monday.
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We Build the Wall is breaking down on two fronts – in Manhattan, where its founder is facing a federal indictment, and in South Texas, where engineers say the Rio Grande is washing out the foundation of 3 miles of border wall it financed.
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A group of Zimbabwean environmental rights lawyers have gone to court to bar a Chinese firm from exploring for coal inside the country’s biggest game reserve, court papers showed Tuesday.
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The Trump administration opened the largest remaining area of pristine land in the country — Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — to oil drilling Monday in the midst of a worldwide oil glut.
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Within the crystal blue waters in the remote Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana are dense schools of fish, whale sharks and vast mountains of salt and coral on the sea bottom.
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Federal prosecutors on Thursday dropped a misdemeanor charge against humanitarian aid worker Scott Warren, who was convicted in November of driving a motor vehicle in a restricted area on the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge.
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The Ninth Circuit dismissed an attempt by a wildlife conservation group to attack a statute the Trump administration has used to undo several Obama-era environmental regulations – in this case, involving hunting in wildlife refuges in Alaska.
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Separated from their mothers, jabbed with metal hooks, and sometimes deprived of food — many Thai elephants are tamed by force before being sold to lucrative tourism sites increasingly advertised as ‘sanctuaries’ to cruelty-conscious travelers.
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A Washington state representative has been asked to step down after the release of an investigation that found he engaged in domestic terrorism against the U.S., including the 41-day occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016.
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The director of a 100-acre butterfly refuge on the Rio Grande asked the Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday to shut down a conservative group’s border wall construction project on private land in South Texas, a day after a state judge ordered the project be immediately stopped.
Read moreFederal employees overseeing U.S. public lands were assaulted or threatened at least 360 times over a five-year period marked by heightened tensions with anti-government groups, a congressional watchdog agency said Monday.
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Legislation barring offshore oil development along America’s coastlines and inside the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has considerable support from voters of all political stripes but during a hearing Monday, Republicans foretold doom for bills that are slated for a vote in the House this Thursday.
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