More than 60 conservation groups from across North America filed letters on April 23, urging the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to immediately prohibit the use of snowmobiles or other vehicles to run down, injure or kill wildlife on all federal lands they manage.

This summer NOAA, in partnership with the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Housing and Urban Development (HUD), as well as community scientists, will map the hottest neighborhoods in 14 U.S. communities and four international cities.

Fires that blaze through the wildland-urban interface (WUI) are becoming more common around the globe, a trend that is likely to continue for at least the next two decades, new research finds.

Oregon’s wolf population did not grow at all last year — the first year of zero annual growth in 16 years. The known population remains at 178 wolves at the end of 2023, just as it was at the end of 2022, according to a report released just recently by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.

The Department of the Interior on April 11 announced that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized Endangered Species Act (ESA) revisions to improve participation in its voluntary conservation programs.

A gray whale observed entangled in monofilament gillnet fishing gear on March 22 off Laguna Beach may still be trailing the heavy fishing gear, elevating concern over the whale’s condition and ability to survive. Heavy net and multiple buoys are wrapped around the whale’s back and sitting atop its fluke (tail), according to a local whale watching company.

The boreal forest, covering much of Canada and Alaska, and the treeless shrublands to the north of the forest region, may be among the worst impacted by climate change over the next 500 years, according to a new study.

A new study from the U.S. Geological Survey and partners in the U.S. and Mexico lends new insight into monarch butterfly population declines, showing that migration habitat in Texas and Mexico has largely remained intact over the period of decline.

Australia could soon see megadroughts that last for more than 20 years, according to new modelling from The Australian National University (ANU) and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes.

The Department of the Interior recently announced the distribution of more than $353.6 million in fiscal year 2023 energy revenues to the four offshore Gulf of Mexico oil and gas producing states – Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, and their coastal political subdivisions (CPS), such as counties and parishes.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on March 25, 2024 proposed protecting the pygmy three-toed sloth under the Endangered Species Act. The proposal responds to a 2013 petition filed after officials from a Texas aquarium unsuccessfully attempted to import six of the creatures from an island off Panama.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today marked International Day of Forests by showcasing transformative innovations such as advances in forest monitoring, early warning systems and other vital technical solutions that are being used to help countries halt deforestation and forest degradation.

Study is the first to identify the U.S. Atlantic coast as a significant region of feeding grounds for endangered leatherbacks migrating along the east coast of the United States.

The Biden administration released a draft amendment March 14 for 77 land use plans across the Western United States intended to protect the imperiled greater sage grouse, an umbrella species whose survival is intricately linked to the health of the vast sagebrush sea ecosystem.

A healthy coral reef is noisy, full of the croaks, purrs, and grunts of various fishes and the crackling of snapping shrimp. Research suggests that larval animals use this symphony of sounds to help them determine where they should live and grow.

Marine heat waves in the northeast Pacific Ocean create ongoing and complex disruptions of the ocean food web that may benefit some species but threaten the future of many others, a new study has shown.

The Center for Biological Diversity and Maricopa Audubon Society sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to protect the endangered Gila chub and threatened Western yellow-billed cuckoo from chronic unauthorized cattle grazing in Arizona’s Agua Fria National Monument.

An international team of scientists captures the first clear evidence in the field of long-theorized catalysts for aerosol development.

The 2023-24 El Niño has peaked as one of the five strongest on record. It is now gradually weakening but it will continue to impact the global climate in the coming months, fueling the heat trapped by greenhouse gases from human activities. Above normal temperatures are predicted over almost all land areas between March and May.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has approved a Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances (CCAA) with the Trinity River Authority of Texas (TRA) to conserve six imperiled species. Agreement with Trinity River Authority will protect four mussels, two turtles.