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A conservation group sued the Interior Department on Thursday seeking documents about decisions on endangered species the group alleges were tainted by political pressure from a former high-ranking Interior official.
New York's fight against exotic pests like lake-choking mollusks, rampant alien weeds and wasps that attack pine trees will be crafted by a new state office.
The New Mexico meadow jumping mouse is among a handful of species from the Southwest that is being considered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as candidates for protection under the Endangered Species Act.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday reversed seven rulings that denied endangered species increased protection, after an investigation found the actions were tainted by political pressure from a former senior Interior Department official.
Scientists exploring a deep ocean basin in search of species isolated for millions of years found marine life believed to be previously undiscovered, including a tentacled orange worm and an unusual black jellyfish.
Scientists have discovered 11 new species of plants and animals in Vietnam, including a snake, two butterflies and five orchid varieties, the World Wildlife Fund said Wednesday.
A federal judge has upheld the government's practice of allowing development to proceed even if it is discovered after a project begins that the work could endanger protected species.
Update 28 June 2007: The US government announced today that it has removed the bald eagle from the Endangered Species List. It is estimated that there were 9789 pairs of breeding eagles – the emblem of the US – in 2006 across the US (excluding Hawaii and Alaska). In 1963, there were just 417.
From the micro to the macro, from plankton in the oceans to polar bears in the far north and seals in the far south, global warming has begun changing life on Earth, international scientists will report next Friday.
A male masked tityra (Tityra semifasciata), one of the tropical species included in the study, at a nesting hole in a snag. It diverged from its sister species the black-tailed Tityra about 4 million years ago [Image courtesy of Jason Weir]
Amphibians bounced back spectacularly from a series of mass extinctions during their evolution, according to a new genetic analysis.
Scientists have discovered at least 52 new species of animals and plants on the southeast Asian island of Borneo since 2005, including a catfish with protruding teeth and suction cups on its belly to help it stick to rocks, WWF International said Tuesday.
Conservationists must make better choices of the areas they focus their protection efforts on, say researchers.
Fish of two different species have been filmed helping each other to hunt. It is the first known instance of two unrelated species hunting cooperatively, except for humans.
The proud parents Lycaeides Melissa and L. ida (left and middle) gave rise to a new species of butterfly (right) that is able to mate successfully (Image: James Fordyce)
Logging in tropical rainforests creates more insidious and longer-lasting environmental devastation than previously thought, researchers say.
Animal and plant species have begun dying off or changing sooner than predicted because of global warming, a review of hundreds of research studies contends.
Researchers on a three-week mission to the remote French Frigate Shoals in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands discovered 100 species never seen in the area before, including many that may be entirely new to science.
A new infestation of invasive variable milfoil has been discovered in a lake that straddles the Maine-New Hampshire border, state officials said Monday.
Among the rarest mammals in Southeast Asia, the kouprey's discovery almost 70 years ago in the jungles of Cambodia stunned the scientific community and led to a decades-long campaign to save it from extinction.
Seed beetles (Callosobruchus maculates), shown here mating, are a species where second mates have a pronounced fertilisation advantage over earlier lovers (Image: Fleur DeCrespigny)
In the beetle Onthophagus nigriventris researchers have found a trade-off between testicle and horn size (Image: O Helmy and D Emlen)
The Cypriot mouse overturns the widely held belief that every living species of mammal had been identified in Europe
The first pictures showing a live specimen of a rodent species once thought to have been extinct for 11 million years have been taken by a retired Florida State University professor and a Thai wildlife biologist.
It has the face of a rat and the tail of a skinny squirrel — and scientists say this creature discovered living in central Laos is pretty special: It's a species believed to have been extinct for 11 million years.
Don't know where to go? No problem. The National Wildlife Federation has teamed up with NatureFind to provide a quick and easy way to find many of the green places in your community including regional, state and national parks, and some private parks and nature centers as well.
In order to best protect Earth's biodiversity, it is necessary to adequately define the units of diversity.
Public Health Implications of Redefining Human Nature By Earon S. Davis, J.D., M.P.H., L.C.M.T.
Environmentalists sued the Bush administration today to restore millions of acres of habitat protections for the California red-legged frog and 12 other imperiled species, saying safeguards for endangered creatures have fallen victim to politics and building industry pressure. " …
While the actual numbers cannot be precise the rates of change are what is most interesting.
Playing God? World's first made-made life form? A scientist says he has created a new species
Yet more incompetence and corporatism from the Bush administration, this time regarding 7 sensitive imperiled species.
Three-quarters of bear species are threatened with extinction according to the World Conservation Union (IUCN), a global consortium of environmental groups and government agencies
Not all species can be saved from extinction. Emma Marris talks to conservation biologists about prioritization and triage...
There are unknown creatures lurking under the windswept islands of the Aleutians, according to a team of scientific divers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Earth, wind and fire formed a deadly trilogy in California this month to reduce an estimated 700 square miles to ash and charred remains in a matter of days.
A national conservation group plans to blow up 2 miles of levees Tuesday on Oregon's Upper Klamath Lake in an unprecedented move to improve wildlife habitat, water storage and water quality downstream.
Before you get your hopes up that YOUR side of the family will evolve into the "better" of the two predicted species, consider that the "goblins" of this scheme will most likely be comprised of today's Republicans, and those who live in the "red" states.
As the climate shifts, plant and animal species are beginning to move, each in its own way and at its own pace, in order to stay within unique, evolved envelopes of temperature, moisture, and light.
New species recently discovered in the world, including pictures and information on their habitat. Most of these species are under threat from illegal logging, hunting and development and are listed under threatened or endangered by the World Wildlife Fund.
World Wildlife Fund scientists said today that the discovery of 11 new animal and plant species in a remote area in central Vietnam underscores the importance of conservation efforts in the ancient tropical forests of the region.
In the continuing debate over the origin of the extinct "little people" of Indonesia, a team of scientists says it has found evidence in three wrist bones that these people were members of a distinct species rather than humans with a physical disorder.
CUERO, Texas (AP) -- Phylis Canion lived in Africa for four years. She's been a hunter all her life and has the mounted heads of a zebra and other exotic animals in her house to prove it.
SOME primitive organisms may be impossible to divide into species.
For the first time, scientists have completely transformed a species of bacteria into another species by transplanting its complete set of DNA.
Marvel launched a site for their new Endangered Species X-Men series where the mutants are in some serious trouble. Check it out.
Oceans are vitally important to human communities around the world. We depend on oceans and coasts for food, medicines and protection from storms, among other resources — more than $20 trillion annually in ecological goods and services.
X-Men #200 just can't seem to stay fully stocked. It's just too popular. Here's why.
Scientists have changed one species of bacteria into another by performing a gene swap.
A new study published today in Science magazine evaluates the ways that mankind has, over time, significantly altered its environment, resulting in increased vulnerability to natural disasters, species extinction, and disease transmission.
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