BILLINGS, Mont. — A pair of federal judges will decide which states in the Northern Rockies have enough gray wolves to allow public hunting, as ...
AP | Posted 06.28.2009 | Local
ITHACA, N.Y. Blue whales are moaning and purring off the New York coast. The endangered mammals have been positively identified for the first time i...
AP | ROD McGUIRK | Posted 06.22.2009 | Green
CANBERRA, Australia — The Tasmanian devil, a snarling fox-sized marsupial made notorious by its Looney Tunes cartoon namesake Taz, was listed in...
Reuters | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green
This is just about as counter intuitive as they come -- fishermen are trying to catch as many bluefin tuna as possible, in order to throw them back. ...
AP | MARY PEMBERTON | Posted 06.18.2009 | Green
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Blue whales are returning to Alaska in search of food and could be re-establishing an old migration route several decades af...
AP | CLARKE CANFIELD | Posted 06.18.2009 | Green
PORTLAND, Maine — Bald eagles, bouncing back after years of decline, are swaggering forth with an appetite for great cormorant chicks that threa...
Andrew Wetzler | Posted 06.08.2009 | Green
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has basically endorsed Bush's policy of excluding the effects of global warming pollution on polar bears from consideration under the Endangered Species Act.
Panthera | Posted 06.07.2009 | Green
In the science of describing cat behavior -- or any wildlife species for that matter -- a compelling question is, how connected are individuals to each other?
AP | MIKE STARK | Posted 06.06.2009 | Green
SALT LAKE CITY — A tiny mammal that can't handle warm weather could become the first animal in the lower 48 states to get Endangered Species Act...
AP | Posted 05.31.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) - Officials are collecting the Chicago area's remaining rattlesnakes as part of an emergency species survival effort. The U.S. Fish and ...
Guardian | Posted 05.30.2009 | World
Police in the Russian city of St Petersburg were today searching for a rare missing leopard which was stolen yesterday when thieves ambushed a TV prod...
AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — Federal agencies again will have to consult with government wildlife experts before taking actions that could have an impact on thr...
Brooke-Sidney Gavins | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green
The Delta, which provides water to nearly two-thirds of all Californians and is suffering from a three year drought, may not have a federal bailout after all.
Edward Humes | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green
In the next 11 days, President Obama must make a decision that will say a great deal about how America addresses -- or fails to address -- the threat of global warming in the years to come.
AP | Posted 05.24.2009 | Green
HARRISON, Ark. — A Home Depot in northern Arkansas has someone new looking out for mice at the warehouse store. A great horned owl now lives in ...
Telegraph | Last Updated: 11:08PM BST 22 Apr 2009 | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green
The NOAA vessel Auk was returning from a research trip when the whale surfaced about 10 feet in front of it, NOAA spokesman David Miller said....
Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living
Happy Earth Day, 2009! OK, we did the perfunctory observance, like good citizens. Now, is it back to business as usual? Back to polluting and trashi...
AP | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green
SEATTLE — Federal biologists say three pesticides commonly used by farmers threaten the survival of many Pacific salmon and steelhead listed as ...
AP | SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN | Posted 05.19.2009 | Green
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says he will make a decision in the coming weeks on whether to overturn a controversial ...
AP | SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN | Posted 05.17.2009 | Green
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An environmental group is suing the federal government, saying the Obama administration has failed to address a backlog of a...
Michael Markarian | Posted 05.14.2009 | Green
The new bill introduced by Congressman Henry Brown (R-S.C.) and Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo (D-Guam) is a good deal for endangered species and for taxpayers.
AP | BEN NEARY | Posted 05.03.2009 | Green
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released a formal rule Wednesday to remove gray wolves from the federal endangered list in M...
AP | PETE YOST | Posted 05.01.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — The National Wildlife Federation on Tuesday challenged a government subpoena aimed at finding out who leaked the Bush administration's ...
Scott Dodd | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
Nearly a third of the 800 species of birds in the United States are endangered, threatened or in decline. The decline of birds is a warning sign about the overall health of our environment -- or lack thereof.
Sarah Walker | Posted 04.19.2009 | Comedy
It's time. I'm not going to make this harder than it already is, so here it goes: I am a recipient of one of the AIG executive bonuses.
AP | MATTHEW BROWN and BEN NEARY | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green