Sacred to Western Apache and other Indigenous people, the beautiful lands of Oak Flat, Arizona are also home to species like ocelots and endangered Arizona hedgehog cacti. Sadly this place of beauty, ...

DESCRIPTION: The Smith's blue is a small butterfly with a less-than-one-inch wingspan. Adult males are a brilliant blue, while females are brown; both sexes have a red-orange band across the underside ...

WASHINGTON— Ignoring long-established science on the dangers of lead poisoning in the wild, the Environmental Protection Agency today denied a petition to ban toxic lead fishing sinkers that ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— A judge has ordered the California Department of Food and Agriculture to stop using chemical pesticides in its statewide program until the agency complies with state environmental ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

This 2-foot-long, black-masked member of the weasel family once occurred in central grasslands and basins from southern Canada to Texas but is now one of the most endangered mammals in North America.

The Trump administration on April 16, 2025, issued a proposed rule to rescind nearly all habitat protections for endangered species across the country. The proposal has profound, life-altering ...

Bendire’s thrashers are songbirds native to the arid lands of the southwestern United States and northwest Mexico. These secretive animals spend much of their time foraging on the ground, often run ...

Sacred to Western Apache and other Indigenous people, the beautiful lands of Oak Flat, Arizona are also home to species like ocelots and endangered Arizona hedgehog cacti. Sadly this place of beauty, ...