Birds

We mapped out where the drilling could take place — and how it overlaps with the critical habitats of the most sensitive species at risk.

Drilling in the refuge was tucked into in last month’s Republican tax bill, defying decades of attempts to protect this pristine wildnerness.

The last 150 birds of this critically endangered species rely on humans for their survival.

Guam’s birds have been killed by invasive snakes. Now trees struggle to spread their seeds.

It also revealed to me the devastating impact humans are having on the world around us.

After decades of stresses, the lesser prairie-chicken faces a brand-new threat: Oklahoma’s wind farms.

Researchers forecast that a decline in availability of nutritious sardines will shrink the population of Darwin’s famous Nazca boobies.

Artist Ralph Steadman and writer Ceri Levy make us laugh while worrying about extinction.

Mountaintop mining and excrement-filled lagoons threaten the unique biodiversity of the American southeast.

USDA’s Wildlife Services kills thousands of animals a year with exploding cyanide capsules.