Combining lasers and sharks may sound like a bad idea, but marine ecologists are banking on it to help save some of the planet’s most threatened species. By merging optical technology and geochemistry ...

National Endangered Species Day (on May 20) is observed globally to spotlight the planet's most vulnerable animals. From ...

President Donald Trump’s administration listed fewer vulnerable species for protection than any other presidential administration since Congress passed the Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish and ...

Genetic “libraries” that deal in living organisms sounds like something out of a science fiction movie. In Australia, these ...

What can be done when one threatened animal kills another? Scientists studying critically endangered lemurs in Madagascar confronted this difficult reality when they witnessed attacks on lemurs by ...

A team of scientists alarmed by the loss of biodiversity across the world due to climate change has proposed a new approach to managing vulnerable landscapes, focusing on sites that are least impacted ...

The Environmental Protection Agency will downsize its vulnerable species pilot project, retreating from plans to severely restrict pesticide applications on more than 100 million acres in 29 states to ...

The animals that live on the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute's sprawling 32,000 acres in Northern Virginia are connected by one thing: the threat of extinction. Tucked away in the foothills ...