Conservation

Growing palm oil for use in food is already destroying habitats and causing extinctions. Using it for biofuel will make things even worse.

A new study finds that the often-feared big cats actually help keep crops and domesticated animals safe from other threats.

A Republican bill threatens to open up federal wilderness areas to mountain biking — and in the process threatens the 1964 Wilderness Act.

With his Holocene Project tattoos, artist J. Trip immortalizes endangered species on the bodies of wildlife-loving clients.

This month’s new books look at America’s disappearing bees, how religion can fight climate change, a pioneering woman scientist and a lot more.

Video: Poachers slaughtered 1,028 South African rhinos for their horns in 2017.

With just a few dozen left in the wild, things don’t look good for these critically endangered birds. But a captive-breeding program could help save them.

Many states currently are poorly equipped to assume the responsibility of caring for their threatened wildlife.

Archivists are working to save decades of film and other scientific information that could hold clues to protecting species and habitats today.

The subspecies has now been removed from the Endangered Species Act, 80 years after its last sighting.