The team analyzed global elevation distribution data—both historical and modern—for 440 animal species and 1,629 plant species across 23 mountain regions, totaling 8,800 data points.

Wilson considered the Endangered Species Act of 1973 the most important piece of conservation legislation in our nation’s history. I know what that means. I know because I lived it. Fifty years ...

Take away these natural resources, and these icons of America will go extinct. For 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has provided bedrock legal protection for nature’s most vulnerable ...

More than 900 known species are already extinct to date, while at least 28,500 others are listed as endangered or critically endangered by the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new species of poison dart frog, Ranitomeya aetherea, has been identified in a remote area of the Brazilian Amazon. Characterized by sky-blue lines, copper ...

A new species of crayfish found in Washington and Canada has been identified, researchers said. Getty Images/iStockphoto A graduate student came across a reddish-brown creature with claws that was ...

The sole purpose of the expedition was to cull suckermouth catfish, one among a growing number of invasive species that have in recent decades dominated freshwater habitats across Southeast Asia.

A federal court in California sided with environmentalists, striking down a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) attempt to withhold protections for the Joshua tree under the Endangered Species Act.

That same day, the U.S. Department of the Interior sent a proposal to the White House to weaken the Endangered Species Act by removing a single, vital word – “harm” – from the definition ...

Languages: English and Italian. A new species of poison dart frog has been discovered in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, where dense rainforests host some of the most diverse and complex ...

Aussies are being warned to keep an eye out for an invasive ant species as more than a dozen nests have reportedly been sighted recently in one major city, with infrastructure, homes and native ...

A graduate student came across a reddish-brown creature with claws that was tangled up in fishing line at a North Central Washington lake — and it turned out to be a new species. Its scientific ...