Step aside, wolves: The next Colorado wildlife reintroduction could be the elusive wolverine
Colorado could return another native carnivore to its mountains if state lawmakers pass a bill allowing for the reintroduction of wolverines.
Colorado could return another native carnivore to its mountains if state lawmakers pass a bill allowing for the reintroduction of wolverines.
Ecology
Mar 11, 2024
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After a wet year and a push to conserve water in the Southwest, federal officials say the risk of the Colorado River's reservoirs declining to critically low levels has substantially eased for the next couple of years.
Environment
Mar 7, 2024
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The first confirmed baby right whale of the year has been found dead from a collision with a ship, a devastating blow for the vanishing species.
Plants & Animals
Mar 5, 2024
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Government officials whose job it is to clean the nation's worst smog from Southern California's air should be embarrassed. Instead of working together to cut lung-damaging ozone pollution, they are wasting time pointing ...
Environment
Feb 8, 2024
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A Mexican gray wolf called Asha wandered hundreds of miles across Arizona and New Mexico searching for a mate—no easy task for one of the most endangered mammals in the United States.
Plants & Animals
Feb 5, 2024
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A stretch of unusually warm weather has forced federal officials to suspend researchers' annual wolf-moose count in Isle Royale National Park for the first time in more than six decades.
Ecology
Feb 1, 2024
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South Carolina's landscape is pockmarked with wetlands that have historically gotten in the way of developers seeking to build shopping malls, hotels and housing communities.
Environment
Jan 18, 2024
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Within two years, a new federal rule will force oil- and gas-producing states to crack down on methane gas emissions—a major driver of climate change.
Environment
Jan 18, 2024
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Five wolves dashed out of crates and into the Colorado landscape on Monday, culminating three years of work to implement a first-of-its-kind reintroduction of the controversial predator to the state.
Plants & Animals
Dec 19, 2023
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Congress in 2021 provided $6.4 billion to states to curb tailpipe emissions and reduce the effects of climate change.
Environment
Dec 18, 2023
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