With reports of 200 or more species going extinct each day, it can seem like an uphill battle to keep vulnerable populations ...

A 10-year fishing ban in the Yangtze River triggers biodiversity recovery.

After a devastating marine heat wave hit the Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas in 2023, the populations of two essential ...

Many Michiganders notice mussels throughout rivers and streams, but are they aware of the organisms living on the shells? Madison Dunlap, a Biology graduate student at Central Michigan University, has ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service settled federal litigation over the species’ plight. But the wood stork will lose its ...

Bull trout were listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act in 1999 after the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Friends of the Wild Swan successfully sued the Fish and Wildlife Service.

After being listed under the Endangered Species Act in 1984, wood stork numbers have rebounded significantly. Do the birds still need protection?

Topeka shiners have been documented in 60% of the over 200 oxbow lakes restored across Iowa's landscape, 97% of which is ...

California lawmakers are advancing a measure to empower the state to bypass federal decisions and list endangered species under emergency state protections. What supporters hail as a safeguard against ...

(Gary Braasch / Corbis) When Polynesians arrived at the uninhabited Hawaiian Islands thousands of years ago, they found an array of colorful tree snails, each less than an inch in length, across the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. When we think about the scope of our world’s diversity, ...