President Trump has already begun to introduce changes that weaken the Endangered Species Act, a cornerstone of U.S. conservation law.

In the long and storied history of earth, there have been five mass extinctions, the most famous, of course, being the ...

Climate change and other threats have 16 species headed for extinction no matter how much money is spent, new research shows.

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), propose to list the big red sage (Salvia pentstemonoides), a plant species from central Texas, as an endangered species under the Endangered Species ...

Gavin Newsom’s administration plotted an elaborate rescue mission—for a supposed endangered form of trout. “One of our biggest concerns,” a state Department of Fish and Wildlife manager ...

In an unexpected move, the Moon has been added to the World Monuments Fund’s (WMF) list of endangered heritage sites. This marks a significant step in recognising the growing need to protect the ...

The World Monuments Fund has been publishing its World Monuments Watch every two years since 1996 to build awareness and concern for endangered places ... disasters endanger three of the sites on the ...

The federal government has proposed endangered species protection for the big red sage, a flowering plant that grows on bluffs and banks along waterways in the Edwards Plateau of Central Texas.

The Mary River (Moonaboola) in southeastern Queensland is a sanctuary for several threatened freshwater species, including the endangered Mary ... allows frogs to bask. WWF-Australia responded ...

Climate change poses a fundamental threat to the places, species and ... the world’s most endangered wildlife. They also protect the planet by absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2), a major source of ...

"Unprecedented destruction of heritage sites has severed vital connections between the people of Gaza and its urban fabric," the World Monuments Fund says in its 2025 Watch list. Above, Al ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans ...