Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Endangered Species Act saved the American peregrine falcon from extinction. An "update" to the law could jeopardize such ...

There's no doubt the Endangered Species Act has helped some keynote species in North Carolina, ranging from the American alligator and bald eagle to the loggerhead sea turtle and red-cockaded ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — President Trump's administration moved Wednesday to roll back protections for imperiled species and the places they live, reviving a suite of changes to Endangered Species Act ...

It wouldn’t make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down, or to bar killing endangered salmon while allowing a dam to dry out their ...

One of the biggest success stories of the Endangered Species Act is the bald eagle, which was on the brink of extinction due to pesticides and hunting in the 1970s. It was removed from the list in ...

More than 50 years after the bipartisan U.S. Endangered Species Act was passed unanimously in the Senate and by a vote of 355 to 4 in the House of Representatives, the federal government is proposing ...

We are on the cusp of losing the integrity of one of the most significant environmental acts ever enacted in the United States. Why should this matter? As the Pulitzer Prize-winning evolutionary ...