The Trump administration plans to rewrite part of the Endangered Species Act that prohibits harming the habitats of ...

Federal agencies have proposed changing a longstanding interpretation, weakening wildlife protections under the Endangered ...

The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed to loosen federal protections for endangered species. A draft rule from the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Oceanic and ...

A proposed rule would narrow the definition of harm under the Endangered Species Act and could open the door to more mining, ...

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's swampiest corners for millions of years. But their evolutionary history tells a ...

Each year, animals and plants are being lost to extinction. In fact, more than 160 species disappeared in the past decade alone. According to the World Wide Fund (WWF), the rapid loss of species we ...

The American genetic engineering firm Colossal Biosciences recently announced to much fanfare it had "de-extincted" the dire ...

According to the UN, the world is currently facing the largest species extinction event since the dinosaur age, meaning people all around the globe will need to band together to help protect the ...

The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans is not as farfetched as it ...

This week, a Texas-based biosciences company, which aims to “de-extinct” animal species of the past (and ones that will go ...