The Fish and Wildlife Service has been chronically slow to protect animals and plants under the Endangered Species Act, ...

An “epigenetic” adaptation could prevent large numbers of loggerhead turtles from hatching as female due to climate change – ...

Climate change is quietly rearranging the Amazon and Andes—winners and losers are emerging, and the Northern Andes may hold the key to forest survival.

A shy, ferret-sized predator called the coastal marten has been quietly hanging on in the forests of southern Oregon and northern California.

Decades of evidence link foxes and feral cats with extinctions of Australian mammals. Claims these introduced predators ...

Backed by a National Science Foundation grant of more than $500,000, Pfeifer, the lead principal investigator, and a team of ...

Porcupines, now absent competition for winter forage, and enjoying the more mild winters, exploded in population…for a time. That is, the time it took the fisher to shift its hunting strategies from ...

The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

A wide range of mammal species are adversely affected, including both endemic (those only found in southern Africa) and non-endemic (those found in other places too) species. They range from less ...

East-west coastlines trap marine species during warming, blocking escape routes and increasing extinction risk over millions ...

In a new study in Geology, researchers calculated how long it took for novel single-celled marine species to appear after the asteroid impact, and it’s surprisingly fast.