Fifty years ago, the Endangered Species Act was signed into law by President Richard Nixon with the intention of establishing a clear process for recovering species on the verge of extinction. In ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today to force the release of public records on a proposed rollback of key Endangered Species Act protections for marine ...

WASHINGTON— The National Marine Fisheries Service announced critical habitat designations today for five threatened coral species living in the Pacific Ocean. The agency’s final rule protects 92 ...

When listing a species as endangered, the Service must also designate critical habitat “on the basis of the best scientific data available and after taking into consideration the economic impact ...

The Endangered Species Act has prevented the extinction of many species we value today and restored a few of them to health: Over the past half-century, about 60 U.S. species that were once ...

The more expansive use of the Endangered Species Act over the past 50 years, Earthjustice said, “recognizes the common-sense concept that destroying a forest, beach, river or wetland that a ...

Fifty years after the U.S. Endangered Species Act took effect, officials say 99% of the animals and plants it protects have survived. But some scientists and activists fear the act itself is in ...

It also called for protecting critical habitat — the natural landscape surrounding the breeding, feeding and resting sites of endangered species. And it did something more.

This week marks 50 years of the Endangered Species Act. The bedrock environmental law is credited with saving 291 species from extinction, 99% of those listed as endangered or threatened. CAI’s Eve ...

The Endangered Species Act was passed to help recover imperiled species, but tribes want to do more than that: They want to restore their own relationship with those plants and animals.