Wooly Mice & Dire Wolf Pups, Oh My: De-Extinction Gets Real
How close are we to bringing extinct species of wildlife back from the dead? Is deextinction really happening?
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Trump Determined To Gut The Endangered Species Act
Does Donald Trump have the political capital this time around to actually gut the Endangered Species Act in perpetuity?
Greens Urge Federal Protection For Prairie Dogs
Even though prairie dogs are a keystone species across the West with shrinking population numbers, they are as-yet not federally protected.
The Endangered Species Act Turns 50: Assessing Successes & Failures
The Endangered Species Act has saved hundreds of species from extinction in its 50 years of existence so far…
Invasive Cheatgrass Taking Over Western Desert
Invasive Cheatgrass has taken over more than 50 million acres of desert across the American West, and there’s not much we can do about it.
Earth Day 2019: Focus On Endangered Species
The focus of this year’s Earth Day is species protection given we are heading for the Sixth Great Extinction on the planet if we don’t do something about it
Monarch Butterfly Flutters on the Edge of Extinction
Environmentalists won a lawsuit forcing the federal government to decide by 2019 whether or not to list the once abundant Monarch butterfly as endangered.
In Vitro Fertilization To The Rescue for Endangered Species Fertility
Endangered Species Fertility: Researchers are now using fertility techniques developed for people — like In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) — to try to bring back endangered species like Africa’s Northern White Rhino.
Endangered Species On The Ropes
The Trump administration has virtually launched an assault on wildlife and endangered species protections in place in the United States for half a century…
Plastic Ocean Pollution a Driver of Climate Change?
Carbon sequestration by lanternfish is central to the overall role of marine environments in reducing human-caused CO2 emissions in the atmosphere…