Extinct in the wild, Guam kingfishers being bred at the Cincinnati Zoo could be moving to an island in the Pacific Ocean soon ...

Sandy Point is a beach on the southwestern tip of St. Croix that primarily serves as a nearly 400-acre natural refuge for the ...

Scientists are preserving the animals’ reproductive cells in liquid nitrogen in a bid to boost genetic diversity in future ...

The Trump administration is rolling back more protections under the Endangered Species Act with a new policy that will allow ...

Two Guam kingfisher chicks that hatched at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh are part of a program to help restore the bird ...

William Frist is a nationally acclaimed heart and lung transplant surgeon, former U.S. Senate majority leader and chair of the Global Board of The Nature Conservancy, the largest conservation ...

Congress Moves to Lock In Commercial Fishing Rights Inside Marine National Monuments For the better part of a decade, the question of whether American commercial fishermen can legally drop a line in ...

On a pristine Rhode Island beach teeming with noisy seabirds, a group of biologists armed with nets sneak up on a pair of ...

BREAK IT DOWN FOR YOU HOUR BY HOUR COMING UP IN A FEW MINUTES. ALL RIGHT ETHAN, THANK YOU. WELL, NEW TONIGHT, THE PALMYRA AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT IN LEBANON COUNTY IS NOW DOWN. THREE BOARD MEMBERS, ...

The fire on Santa Rosa Island became the largest in Channel Islands' recorded history. Park officials said conditions prevented resources from initially getting to the remote fire. The fate of a rare ...

Carlyn Kranking is Smithsonian magazine’s associate web editor for science. She edits online science features on everything ...

Palmyra Atoll, a remote, uninhabited speck of land, coral and sea halfway between Hawaii and American Samoa, is one of the healthiest, intact atolls on the planet—so ecologically sensitive that ...