During President Donald Trump’s first term, the Center for Biological Diversity filed 266 lawsuits challenging his administration’s attempts to block progress on climate change, kill wildlife, ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

Check out this factsheet on some species you may not have known are being pushed toward extinction by climate change. Climate change presents the gravest threat to life on Earth in all of human ...

The resilient mountain lion goes by many names: puma, cougar, panther, catamount and even “ghost cat.” Over the past century in California, it has survived habitat loss and government-sponsored ...

The planet's wondrous web of life — which took 4 billion years to evolve — is vanishing in the blink of an eye. Under relentless pressure from habitat destruction, invasive species and climate change, ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— A study published today in the journal PeerJ shows the Endangered Species Act has saved roughly 99 percent of protected wildlife since its creation in 1973, demonstrating the law has ...

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK— The Havasupai tribe and three conservation groups today sued the U.S. Forest Service over its decision to allow Energy Fuels Resources, Inc. to begin operating a uranium ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— Four conservation groups filed suit in federal court today to overturn the U.S. Forest Service’s approval of a controversial open-pit copper mine in southern Arizona’s Santa Rita ...

SAN FRANCISCO— The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today announced its ruling that the Bush government violated the law by ignoring global warming when it set national gas-mileage standards for SUVs ...

CHARLESTON, W.V.— Spurred by a landmark agreement with the Center for Biological Diversity to speed protection decisions for 757 species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected the diamond ...

HONOLULU— A federal court today entered an order settling two cases challenging the U.S. Navy’s training and testing activities off the coasts of Southern California and Hawaii, securing long-sought ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— In response to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced that two increasingly rare salamanders in Oregon and Washington ...