There's a new polar bear on the block -- meet Anori, half-sister to Knut, who made her public debut this week at Wuppertal Zoo in Germany.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is battling a large grass fire in the marshlands of Jefferson County, Texas, an agency official told CNN on Tuesday.
The government has revised its rules on sea turtles to try to decrease the number killed every year and reduce the threats they face.
A paper mill in Louisiana is working closely with environmental officials to help determine what caused thousands of dead and dying fish to wash up along the banks of the Pearl River, a spokesman with the state Department of Environmental Quality said Monday.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has added more populations of the Gopher tortoise to a growing list of species eligible for protection under the Endangered Species Act, but limited resources will prevent the agency from doing more at this time.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has begun the first steps toward determining whether two species of cave-dwelling bats warrant federal protection under the Endangered Species Act.
Authorities believe a large cat that has been spotted around the town of Greenwich, Connecticut, is a mountain lion that either escaped or was released from captivity.
A rider in the budget bill to keep the federal government in operation has triggered fury among some wildlife groups because it would remove certain wolves from the endangered species list.
Two ingredients were missing this weekend when a mix probably meant for tamales was seized at the Texas-Mexico border: Corn husks and a permit to import iguana meat.
Federal authorities have offered a reward for information in the case of three endangered whooping cranes found shot to death in southwestern Georgia.
A German tarantula dealer has been arrested on charges of illegally sending hundreds of the spiders to the United States through the U.S. mail, law enforcement officials said.
Nearly 150 years after it was left behind at a Civil War prison camp, the 3-inch clay pipestem still shows a Union soldier's teeth marks.
The discovery of the exact location of a stockade and dozens of personal artifacts belonging to its Union prisoners is one of the biggest archaeological Civil War finds in decades, federal and Georgia officials said Monday.
I love animals and I love the outdoors. The Gulf of Mexico and the coastline that surrounds it is a special place to me and millions of other Americans.
CNN's Brooke Baldwin reports on the plight of the sea turtles in the Gulf.
One by one, with a hand as steady as a surgeon's, Lorna Patrick removes eggs from a sea turtle's nest on a Florida beach.
The man tapped by President Barack Obama to work on long-term oil spill restoration will meet with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Monday afternoon to discuss the disaster's economic and environmental impacts on the state, according to a Secretary of the Navy press release.
The oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico could trigger a massive manatee rescue. CNN's David Mattingly reports.
With the utmost care and a healthy dose of respect, Monica Ross brought the pontoon boat to a crawl, shut its engine down, and asked for quiet. She was careful not to disturb the small antenna, which floated on the surface of the Crystal River marking the location of Coral, an 800 pound manatee.
A U.S. conservation group released a list Wednesday of what it says are America's 10 most endangered rivers, which face man-made threats from gas drilling and new dams to outdated flood management.
A rapid Pacific submarine volcano eruption has exhaled a steam and ash cloud in the air and left a trail of debris on the surface of the water near Sarigan Island in the Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. officials said Monday.
Just how much is a dead pelican worth? BP is about to find out.
Coast Guard officials are considering setting the Gulf of Mexico oil slick on fire as it moved Tuesday to within 20 miles of sensitive ecological areas in the Mississippi River Delta.
Sam Hamilton, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, died Saturday, authorities announced.
For the first time in decades, the hunting of the gray wolf is legal again in the United States. And that's a good thing for ranchers like Cindy Siddoway of Terreton, Idaho, whose sheep are threatened every day by wolves.
The Bush administration cleared the way Thursday for federal agencies to skip consultations with government scientists when embarking on projects that could impact endangered wildlife, the interior secretary said.
U.S. authorities arrested six people Wednesday on suspicion of smuggling African elephant ivory worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, law enforcement officials said.
How habitat loss and degradation are driving down the numbers of thousands of mammalian species
Conservationists have taken the first detailed look at the world's mammals in more than a decade, and the news isn't good
The majestic grizzly bear, once king of the Western wilderness but threatened with extinction for a third of a century, has roared back in Montana
People calling a federal phone number to order duck stamps are instead greeted by a phone-sex line, due to a printing error the government says would be too expensive to correct
The oil spill that closed the Mississippi River at New Orleans is costing the U.S. economy $275 million a day, the head of that city's port authority told CNN.
How many of the estimated two million albatrosses on the Pacific Midway Islands contain some quantity of plastic?
The dwindling march of the penguins is signaling that the
world's oceans are in trouble, scientists now say
A Native American who shot a bald eagle for use in a tribal religious ceremony must stand trial, a federal appeals court has ruled
It's a tale of homeland security concerns blocking wildlife management, and the hue and cry that ensues.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife must decide on the polar bear this month. But does the species really need protection?
A Long Island couple is adjusting to life with three newborns: rare identical triplets who arrived after four years of trying.
A new study finds that rising temperatures are in danger of wiping out the king penguins of Antarctica
Federal biologists said Friday they had signed off on a plan aimed at providing relief to the drought-parched Southeast, under which more water will be retained in Georgia instead of being released into Florida.
Governors of three drought-ridden Southern states met with federal officials to address water usage issues for two river basins Thursday, as the Army Corps of Engineers is expected to present a plan meant to relieve regions dangerously low on water.
Water war
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CNN's Rusty Dornin has more on the fight over water between Georgia, Alabama and Florida.
Hunters remain a powerful force in American society, as evidenced by the presidential candidates who routinely pay them homage, but their ranks are shrinking dramatically and wildlife agencies worry increasingly about the loss of sorely needed license-fee revenue.
The bald eagle, America's national symbol, is flying high after spending three decades in recovery. On Thursday, the government took the eagle off the Endangered Species Act's "threatened" list.
The bald eagle is officially about to become a "conservation success story" for the U.S. government, which has worked for more than three decades to help the national symbol recover from habitat destruction, illegal shooting and contamination of its food source.
Polar bears may be listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act because of a loss of habitat that jeopardizes their survival, the Interior secretary said Wednesday.
Vultures and space shuttles do not fly together well.
Is the strutting sage grouse, iconic bird of the Western steppe, an endangered species? No doubt about it, say environmentalists, who petitioned for federal protection for the "cock of the prairie," as Lewis and Clark fondly dubbed it.
A dangerous intruder has invaded Everglades National Park, and it's putting the native wildlife at risk.
Of all the shorthand symbols of conspicuous consumption, caviar may be the most obvious--and the most enduring. Even in the second century B.C., a jar of sturgeon (the fish whose eggs are caviar) h...
Plainclothes federal officers cited a startled Bolinas ((California)) merchant earlier this month for selling fans made from feathers she'd found on the beach. Claire Blotter, 43, said agents from ...
BEAUMONT, CALIFORNIA -- Cleanup of toxic wastes at the old Lockheed . . . rocket-testing site south of Beaumont has been delayed about a year while plans are hammered out for dealing with the feder...
The campaign to reduce West Coast logging to save the northern spotted owl has been about as welcome to the forest-products industry as a splinter in the foot. Executives at lumber companies such a...
The Jackson, Wyoming, Boy Scouts are doing their bit to turn last year's trade deficit with South Korea into a surplus. Their export: hundreds of antlers shed by elk in the Tetons during the winter...
As hinted in the heading, the column you are now gaping at proved to be tougher to produce than usual. Half a dozen entries were aborted after your correspondent had spent a lot of time on them. Ba...
CHRISTIANA, DEL. -- Plans to build a $25 million highway may be delayed beyond a deadline for obtaining federal funds over fears that a species of turtle is threatened by the project. U.S. Fish and...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A federal judge has ruled that Moonstone Beach is . . . not ((for)) nudes. U.S. District Judge Ernest C. Torres refused Monday to grant an injunction that would have required th...
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