Birds

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.

Drilling would also harm the cultural and religious core of the Gwich’in people.

This month brings books about killer fires, strange birds and wicked bugs.

Why are government contractors clearing trees on a private Texas butterfly sanctuary?

Calls to “modernize” the Endangered Species Act really just want to weaken it.

Check out Al Gore’s “Sequel” plus books about birds, disasters and pollution.