Endangered Species

A Swedish death-metal album mourns species we’ve recently lost — and reminds us that we can all stand up against extinction.

Australia’s Bellinger River snapping turtle nearly went extinct in just months — before anyone knew it was in trouble. Conservationists are working to make sure it doesn’t disappear forever.

You may not have heard much about the long fight to remove the Nooksack Dam near Bellingham, Washington, but its detonation this week will prove ecologically and culturally important.

Areas with natural buffers from the effects of climate change could play a vital role in conservation efforts. New research helps to better understand them.

The pandemic has revealed the truth about Thailand’s unsustainable and exploitative elephant tourism sector — and a chance to rethink the relationship between humans and elephants.

A new study digs into the market for endangered and threatened snakes, revealing threats to both species and human health.

Mistakenly presumed extinct for 22 years, the rare Wendlandia angustifolia tree now has an opportunity for priority preservation.

The discovery of a lost plant species highlights the need to protect other endangered species in one of the most biodiverse regions in the United States.

Here’s why the action is so harmful, how it’s possibly illegal, and why it won’t help struggling fishing communities.

The administration has brazenly axed another long list of environmental protections — when it should have been healing a nation wounded by the pandemic and racist violence.