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 ...

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Trapped, poisoned and shot for “predator control,” gray wolves were nearly eliminated from the U.S. West by 1945. Today, after centuries of unfounded fear and animosity, research has given wolves a ...

PFAS, aka forever chemicals, are a large group of manmade chemicals called perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Some of the most persistent manmade compounds on the planet, they’re commonly ...

In 2010 BP's Deepwater Horizon oil-drilling rig exploded, killing 11 people. The resulting spill poured up to 205 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and harmed thousands of animals, from ...

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 ...

Ruling on a suit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity and allies, a federal judge found Tuesday that Idaho’s wolf-trapping rules break the law because wolf traps can also hurt — and even kill ...

Songbirds called southwestern willow flycatchers depend on the dwindled, dewatered and degraded streamside habitat of the U.S. Southwest, where they face a serious threat of extinction due to ...

California lawmakers just passed the Western Joshua Tree Conservation Act, permanently protecting the iconic, imperiled trees. It bans unpermitted tree killing and removal, requires a conservation ...

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management oversees more than 245 million acres, mostly in the West — more ground than any other public U.S. agency. From deserts to forests to wetlands, these irreplaceable ...

1. What is this proposal to reintroduce jaguars to the United States? In December 2022 the Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reintroduce endangered ...