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Environment

Hawaii’s Big Island cat lovers are furious about a feeding ban to protect an endangered goose species: ‘They’re both living creatures’

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and The Associated Press
December 27, 2025
The Fish Lake Valley tui chub, swimming in water
Environment

The Trump administration just proposed its first animal to be added to the endangered species list: a rare fish from Nevada that’s ‘barely clinging to existence’

By Rio Yamat and The Associated Press
May 21, 2025
An orange poison dart frog on a leaf
Environment

Global warming is crushing amphibian populations: ‘It’s amazing how few people know that frogs are endangered’

By Maryel Price, Oliver Butler, Rochester Institute of Technology and The Associated Press
May 21, 2025
Trump is loosening red tape to help America’s $20 billion seafood trade deficit. Conservation groups worry overfishing could unravel the ocean’s ‘safety net’
Environment

Trump is loosening red tape to help America’s $20 billion seafood trade deficit. Conservation groups worry overfishing could unravel the ocean’s ‘safety net’

By Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press
April 19, 2025
Trump wants to use ‘God Squad’ to approve his plans to increase logging by bypassing endangered species protections
Environment

Trump wants to use ‘God Squad’ to approve his plans to increase logging by bypassing endangered species protections

By Tammy Webber and The Associated Press
March 5, 2025
A wildlife technician holds up a dead owl's wing as he takes notes.
Environment

U.S. officials enlist trained shooters to kill 450,000 barred owls—all in the name of saving their cousins from extinction

By Matthew Brown and The Associated Press
July 3, 2024
Paris (France) on May 17, 2020: statue in 'Place du Trocadero' square with a protective mask against Coronavirus, Covid19, and the Eiffel Tower in the background.
Environment

Tiger mosquitos, Asian hornets and bed bugs: What climate change means for Europe’s ‘pest demographics’ haunting the Paris Olympics

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June 22, 2024
Tiny, light-brown lizard sparks massive clash between environmentalists and oil giants
Environment

Tiny, light-brown lizard sparks massive clash between environmentalists and oil giants

By Scott Sonner and The Associated Press
May 17, 2024
Turtle
Environment

Nearly half of the world’s migratory species are in decline and more than a fifth face extinction, UN says

By Christina Larson and The Associated Press
February 12, 2024
Springsnail
Environment

A snail smaller than a fingernail is endangering a key part of Biden’s climate agenda: A huge lithium mine in Nevada

By Scott Sonner and The Associated Press
February 9, 2024
Stephens’ kangaroo rat
Environment

America spends $1.2 billion a year on endangered species, but almost half goes to just 2 kinds of fish

By Matthew Brown, John Flesher and The Associated Press
January 3, 2024
The endangered Species Act turns 50, and those who created and enforced it recall its highs and lows: ‘I was threatened many times’
Environment

The endangered Species Act turns 50, and those who created and enforced it recall its highs and lows: ‘I was threatened many times’

By Travis Loller and The Associated Press
December 28, 2023
a Grizzly bear.
Environment

BSNF Railway has been slow-walking a permit to stop running over grizzly bears for nearly 20 years, environmental groups claim in lawsuit

By Amy Beth Hanson and The Associated Press
December 18, 2023
Climate activists
Environment

The sale of 67 million acres of Gulf oil leases is being held up by environmentalists asking to think about the endangered whales

By Kevin McGill and The Associated Press
October 27, 2023
Lesser prairie chicken
Environment

Biden is fighting with Republicans over whether to keep protecting the lesser prairie chicken and northern long-eared bat

By Matthew Daly and The Associated Press
September 29, 2023

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