Long before Las Vegas’ Fremont Street was a gambling hub festooned with neon lights, Oreocarya insolita, a shin-high wildflower with white blossoms, bloomed each spring in the creosote scrub brush.

Over the past three months, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has drastically changed its interpretation of the Endangered ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ripple effect throughout the ecosystems it existed within. But there's a hidden ...

Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red List, considered the ...

Organizations championing voiceless wildlife and landscapes say the Trump administration has embarked on an all-out assault to exploit U.S. frontier.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A unique multidisciplinary performance is taking the stage at the historic Hawaii Theatre this month, using giant puppetry, live symphonic music, and dance to spotlight the ...

Mombasa, Kenya, 15 October 2026 – A global reassessment of reef-building corals has found that 44% of species are threatened ...

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA) are the primary international and US policies, respectively, in place ...

Today, the Abu Tartur Plateau in Egypt is a dry, rugged desert. Around 80 million years ago, however, this same landscape lay beneath a productive tropical sea. Fourteen fossilized teeth belonging to ...

GLAND, Switzerland (21 July 2022) – International conservation organisations are calling on governments to “stop turning a blind eye” to the extinction of sturgeon and paddlefish as the world’s first ...

A University of Portsmouth scientist has helped lead a major global study, which finds that 44% of the world's reef-building ...