State officials urged a drilling company not to take water from a Columbiana County creek for a “ fracking” operation because of fears that the action might threaten wildlife and an endangered ...

It’s a crisp January morning in Chattanooga. Birds rustle and chirp as they flit through tall grasses and short, scrubby trees. The Tennessee River flows placidly between sharp hills next to the ...

AUSTIN, Texas— The Center for Biological Diversity and Save Our Springs Alliance today filed a formal petition asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to provide Endangered Species Act protection ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (CN) — Recognizing its importance as an indicator species for clean water, Pennsylvania lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to designate a state amphibian: an enormous salamander ...

AUSTIN, Texas — We're no strangers to drought in Central Texas. In fact, words like "drought," "water conservation" and "water shortage" tend to lose their meaning after multiple years of ...

AUSTIN, Texas— The Center for Biological Diversity and Save Our Springs Alliance formally notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today of their intent to sue the agency for failing to provide ...

Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 44, No. 1 (March 2010), pp. 104-109 (6 pages) Research on landscape connectivity for amphibians that use isolated wetlands has focused on terrestrial and semiterrestrial ...

Many patterns observed in ecology, such as species richness, life history variation, habitat use, and distribution, have physiological underpinnings. For many ectothermic organisms, temperature ...

The Northern California wine industry has become a key laboratory for significant nationwide trends in endangered-species regulation. The prominent national and California species issues that have ...

A spotted salamander rests on a fallen log. Some salamander species are transforming from aquatic larvae to amphibious adults this week in Missouri. Watch for these unique creatures in the woods and ...