The Trump administration is turning to the nuclear option on endangered-species protections in the name of national security.

By TAMMY WEBBER One of the world’s rarest whales lives in only one place: the Gulf of Mexico, where the Trump administration ...

Extinction can be a hard reality to confront. It’s one thing to learn about animals like the woolly mammoth or the dodo, ...

The federal Endangered Species Committee, dubbed the 'God Squad,' is set to decide whether to remove Endangered Species Act protections in the Gulf.

National security has never been used to call a meeting of the "God Squad." But other federal agencies have been citing the ...

According to a recent report, nearly one in four species catalogued by the CMS are threatened with extinction on a worldwide ...

Declaring a national emergency is one of the few ways an administration can bypass the Endangered Species Act.

The alterations came during President Donald Trump's first term, after he ordered a rollback of "unnecessary regulatory ...

Across the globe, thousands of species face the threat of extinction due to habitat loss, poaching, pollution, and climate ...

Protections for the western burrowing owl in the Las Vegas Valley will remain after the Clark County Commission last week ...

In April of 2025, headlines across the world announced that the dire wolf had been brought back from extinction. This 130-150 lbs wolf species, about 25% heavier than modern-day gray wolves, had not ...

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...