WASHINGTON— The Trump administration announced today that it is invoking the Defense Production Act, a power generally reserved for addressing extraordinary threats to national security, to compel the ...

More than 130 conservation groups, outfitters and rural Texas businesses urged Congress today to block federal funding for ...

Conservation groups joined state Rep. Mandy Lindsay, Rep. Elizabeth Velasco, Sen. Cathy Kipp and Sen. Lisa Cutter Thursday to ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today denied multiple requests for an injunction to block the Trump administration from transferring Oak Flat to a private mining company. The decision clears the ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld a district court decision that the Environmental Protection Agency ...

How many people are there on the planet, and how has the population grown? The United Nations predicts the world population will reach 7 billion on October 31, 2011, and continue exploding till its ...

Just as nature inspires art, art inspires actions to defend wild places and the wild creatures that live in them. With this in mind, the Center for Biological Diversity's Endangered Species Mural ...

Walls built along the U.S.-Mexico border over the past several decades are a blight on the landscapes and cultures of the borderlands. Hundreds of miles of wall have been built across protected public ...

With sumptuous, fleshy lips and a bulbous, protruding forehead, the humphead wrasse is an unforgettable fish. This enormous, colorful coral-reef dweller is slow to reproduce, making it vulnerable to ...

Ten Alaska and national groups sued the Interior Department today for unlawfully removing federal protections from public lands in an area stretching from the Yukon River to the Brooks Range. These ...

Our planet now faces a global extinction crisis never witnessed by humankind. Scientists predict that more than 1 million species are on track for extinction in the coming decades. But there’s still ...

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.