About 2,500 manatees have perished in Florida over the last four years, heightening tension between conservationists and property owners as federal officials prepare to decide whether to down-list the creature to threatened ...
Ecology
Aug 19, 2014
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Extinction: the permanent loss of a species. It is deeply troubling—and scientists and birdwatchers are ringing the alarm about a bird species that only a few decades ago was widespread and very common.
Ecology
Jul 23, 2014
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Their scruffy beards weren't ironic, but there are reasons mammoths and mastodons could have been the hipsters of the Ice Age.
Archaeology
Jul 21, 2014
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Porcupines in cages, endangered tortoises in buckets and snakes in cloth bags—rare wildlife is on open sale at a Chinese market, despite courts being ordered to jail those who eat endangered species.
Ecology
Jul 7, 2014
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California officials have decided to add the gray wolf to the state's endangered species list.
Ecology
Jun 4, 2014
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Federal biologists say a small fish in desert creeks of Southern Oregon and Northern California has recovered enough to get off the endangered species list.
Ecology
Feb 12, 2014
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A tiny minnow that lives only in Oregon is set to become the first fish ever taken off U.S. Endangered Species Act protection because it is no longer threatened with extinction.
Ecology
Feb 4, 2014
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The federal government says an eyeless shrimp and 14 other Hawaii creatures and plants have been added to the endangered species list.
Ecology
Oct 30, 2013
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Wildlife researchers on Cape Cod are tagging some of the elusive shorebirds known as red knots.
Ecology
Sep 20, 2013
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has launched a review of whether it should take North Pacific humpback whales off the endangered species list.
Plants & Animals
Aug 31, 2013
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