ANCHORAGE, Alaska— The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect a rare Arctic plant called the Alaskan glacier buttercup under the Endangered ...

At the facility, there are eight large enclosures, each described as "approximately half the size of a football field." ...

On his way out the door, former President Trump rushed through a permit allowing ConocoPhillips to start a massive oil and gas drilling project in the pristine, culturally important landscape of the ...

But in announcing the listing, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne said the decision should not be "misused" to regulate global climate change. "Listing the polar bear as threatened can ...

This story appears in the January 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The final resting place of the last dusky seaside sparrow is a glass bottle in the Ornithology Collection at the ...

The city of Los Angeles agreed to pay nearly $2 million in fines for bulldozing over nine acres of a state park in the Santa Monica Mountains and trampling an endangered plant species while replacing ...