Month: October 2019

The Senate will vote this week on a package of four spending bills that includes Fiscal Year 2020 funding for the Department of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency....

Researchers captured footage of a male eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis) feeding young tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) while studying the effects of gas compressor noise on songbird reproduction behavior in nest...

When researchers spotted a dolphin giving birth in the wild in August, it was only the third documented observation of a wild dolphin birth. What made it even more unusual...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed removing the interior least tern (Sterna antillarum) from the endangered species list. The small fish-eating bird was first listed as endangered under the...

Imported from Asia as a game species, nilgai antelope have become feral in South Texas, and their penchant for busting fences is reshaping the landscape — connecting fragmented areas that...

Just because they’re designated as state birds doesn’t mean they’ll be in their states in a century. “As the planet warms and birds across the country relocate to escape the...

Over 300 people gathered in Reno last week for a discussion of wild horses and their impact on the environment. The program featured a showing of Horse Rich and Dirt...

California is battling another season of catastrophic wildfires, but before European colonization, the Yurok tribe used quieter, controlled burning to shape the landscape and the wildlife that occupied it. “We...

Researchers recently discovered a virus infecting bald eagles across the country. The virus is a member of the hepacivirus genus, the same genus of viruses that cause hepatitis C in...

Caribou populations are dropping all across Canada, with one herd — the South Selkirk — in British Columbia down to just three females by April 2018. Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) herds...