Current laws that deem species safe from extinction ignore their ecological role, geographic range and genetic diversity, as ...

Two Oregon fish species were proposed for Endangered Species Act protection on Oct. 17 by the Center for Biological Diversity. The environmental group petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to ...

Of all the communities across America impacted by the government shutdown, the population of endangered black-footed ferrets may be among the smallest and most vulnerable. This rare species, ...

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Conservation authority the IUCN has upheld the endangered status of the long-tailed macaque after rejecting the U.S. biomedical lobby’s challenge to downgrade it. Demand from research labs has fueled ...

Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction by climate change and more than half of bird species around the world are declining under pressure from deforestation and agricultural expansion, ...

An 8-year-old okapi at the Freeport-McMoRan Audubon Species Survival Center on the West Bank is pregnant and will give birth to a calf later this year, an encouraging development for the shy and ...

Is the Jewish joke on the verge of becoming extinct? The Last Jewish Joke, written by the veteran Parisian sociologist Michel Wieviorka, and newly translated into English by Cory Stockwell, argues ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Arctic seals face extinction as climate change melts sea ice, with harp, hooded and bearded seals moved to higher ...

Conservation biologists propose a daunting task: protecting Earth’s diversity of bacteria and other microbes. By Carl Zimmer Hundreds of scientists have joined together to save a group of species from ...

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