When determining the potential effects pesticides could pose to endangered or threatened species, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), and Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) should ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 30, 2013 not rated yet 0

Trapped in a steel cage barely big enough to hold her, the large squirrel was not happy, pawing at the bars and trying them with her teeth. Matt Whitbeck and Cherry Keller of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service were glad to ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 29, 2013 not rated yet 0

North America isn't known as a hotspot for crop plant diversity, yet a new inventory has uncovered nearly 4,600 wild relatives of crop plants in the United States, including close relatives of globally important ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 29, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Since 1997, a shrubby perennial found only in East Texas has been on a waiting list to be officially declared by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. A ruling on the fate of the ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 23, 2013 not rated yet 0

It may be the most ambitious habitat restoration project ever conceived in the United States.

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 26, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0

A little more than 39 years ago, on December 28, 1973, the Endangered Species Act was enacted to conserve threatened and endangered species and their ecosystems. To honor this anniversary, Daphne Fautin of ...

Biology - Ecology

Jan 07, 2013 not rated yet 0

(AP)—He doesn't like busy Interstate 5 or eating cattle, at least so far. He gets along with his distant cousins the coyotes, likes to swim and roams a lot—an awful lot—around the northernmost reaches ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 06, 2013 not rated yet 0

The Endangered Species Act (ESA)—the key US law protecting species listed as threatened or endangered—focuses on boosting species' numbers until they reach recovery thresholds and so can be taken off the ESA list. Almost ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 10, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

When it comes to protecting endangered species, the power of the people is key, an analysis of listings under the U.S. Endangered Species Act finds.

Biology - Ecology

Aug 16, 2012 3.4 / 5 (5) 4 |

Rat poison used on illegal marijuana farms may be sickening and killing the fisher, a rare forest carnivore that makes its home in some of the most remote areas of California, according to a team of researchers led by University ...

Biology - Ecology

Jul 13, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 8 |

On May 1, USDA Forest Service, U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the Memphis Zoo, and other partners released seven young Louisiana pine snakes on a restored longleaf ...

Biology - Ecology

May 07, 2012 4.7 / 5 (3) 2

(AP) -- Smokey Bear has done such a good job stomping out forest fires the past half-century that a woodpecker that's survived for millions of years by eating beetle larvae in burned trees is in danger of ...

Biology - Ecology

May 02, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

A technique that monitors whales through the sounds they emit has answered a key issue raised by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico two years ago this month.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 06, 2012 4.7 / 5 (3) 0

The tiny Miami blue butterfly, reduced to a few hundred survivors on isolated islands off Key West, will be formally declared a federally endangered species on Friday.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 05, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a lawsuit from conservation groups that want to block wolf hunting and trapping that have killed more than 500 of the predators across the Northern Rockies in ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 15, 2012 3.4 / 5 (5) 26