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Brights Zoo in Limestone, Tennessee, welcomed a one-of-a-kind baby giraffe born without any spots on July 31.

Federal authorities have not yet brought criminal charges against two Honduran nationals who allegedly shot and killed a bald eagle in Nebraska to eat it for dinner.

Environmental regulations have forced the town of Hingham, Massachusetts, to delay its Fourth of July fireworks display for months.

Scientists announced they have successfully cloned the first North American endangered species, a black-footed ferret.

Department of Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced this week that William Perry Pendley will be acting director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), a move ranchers and others in the west where the majority of federal land exists see as a positive development.

The Austrailian government announced last week that the first mammal on earth is now extinct because of climate change.

The Trump administration is putting plans in place to protect the once-endangered sage grouse but also allow millions of acres to benefit Americans in the states where the birds live, including plans to allow more oil and gas drilling, mining, and other activities.

Facebook has become a hotbed for illegal animal trading, which includes endangered species banned from trade internationally, according to a report.

A grieving orca mother was spotted lifting the corpse of her infant to the surface for air off the coast of Victoria, British Columbia.

The lack of human development in the Korean Demilitarized Zone [DMZ] has created peaceful wilderness where 106 endangered species are thriving, according to a report published this week by the South Korean government.

The Lacoste clothing company has announced it will temporarily replace its iconic crocodile logo on its shirts with symbols of 10 endangered animal species, including the California condor, the Sumatran tiger and the Javan rhino. For the first time in

The U.S. Marines have started blowing up 10 dams in Orange County, in the midst of an ongoing rainy season, and despite President Trump’s executive order to curtail the Obama administration’s controversial “Waters of the U.S.” (WOTUS) regulation.

Wind turbines are killing off an endangered species of bat at a much faster pace than expected, according to a study from the University of California.

The Democrat-controlled California legislature is moving to memorialize into state law all of former President Barack Obama’s environmental rules and regulations.

A federal complaint has been filed against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Jeh Johnson for their “actions concern[ing] the entry and settlement of multitudinous foreign nationals into the United States.”

A production company hired to shoot a music video by Taylor Swift has been accused of endangering a species of rare birds in New Zealand.

Hidden on hillsides in a remote part of western Vermont, a small number of venomous timber rattlesnakes slither among the rocks, but their isolation can’t protect them from a mysterious fungus spreading across the eastern half of the country that threatens to wipe them out.

Plans to crack down on people feeding seagulls – which encourages vicious attacks on people and animals by the birds – have been blocked because it may offend Hindus and Jews. Council officers in the Welsh seaside resort of Llandudno,

In the United States, and most of the western world, there is an ideological war with dire physical consequences. It is the war on fossil fuels. But, even if you understand that energy is central to everything in modern society, the war is much bigger than energy. It is about freedom. It is about control. It is about global governance.

Gov. Jerry Brown of California is fired up about nailing his citizens to the wall, should they dare to use more than their allotted amount of water. On Sunday, Brown said that those who did not take shorter showers would be punished with fines of up to $500, in order to cut urban water use 25 percent; now, according to CBS News, water authorities will use “smart meters” to monitor water use and update them for purposes of fines.

California’s project bullet train hit a speed bump last week as the federal government’s Fish and Wildlife Service nailed the California High-Speed Rail Authority for violating federal protections for the endangered San Joaquin kit fox.