CNN: President Obama on Tuesday overturned a last-minute Bush administration regulation that many environmentalists claim weakened the Endangered Species Act. The regulation, issued a few weeks before George W. Bush left office, made it easier for federal agencies to skip consultations with governme...

It's been a while since we checked in on the Bush midnight regulations flurry. As a reminder, in the waning days of Republican rule in the White House, there was a concerted effort to inflict as much damage as possible in key, hot-button political issue areas. For example: A rule that relaxes enforc...

It's been over 400 years since a wild beaver roamed an English river, but freedom will probably be short-lived for the lone male still at large after escaping - along with two rapidly recaptured females - a few weeks ago from an enclosure in Devon. Unlike some parts of Europe, where beavers have bee...

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The hedgehog, water vole and hazel dormouse are among a number of British mammals that face becoming seriously endangered, research published today reveals. Climate change and habitat loss have led to a dramatic increase in the number of mammals whose future survival is a cause for concern among con...

by Walter Brasch The chairman of the Republican National Committee may have begun an irreversible descent into a future as a fear-bound paranoid victim of functional amnesia, possibly caused by a hysterical post-traumatic event such as the overwhelming victory of Democrats in the 2008 election and t...

The sea eagle is a glorious sight as it soars and swoops, but plans to reintroduce one of the world's largest birds of prey to Norfolk are dividing bird lovers and running into opposition from landowners, who fear that wildlife could be devastated by its return. Natural England, the government's wil...

Poached ivory being burned in Namibia. Photo: Jonathan and Angela The hard truth is there are no international rules set in stone telling a country how it should treat its wildlife. There are 194 recognized countries in the world (not including Antarctica) of various sizes and climates, and each has...

Photo by Pete Oxford From a die-hard ecologist's standpoint, the unequivocal answer is simple: No. Tourism invites hordes of people to trample over the delicate island ecosystems, the ever-growing industry attracts migrant workers to join an already unsustainable population which combined with the g...

All photos by yours truly So I've been in the Galapagos for 5 days, and it seems like every dispatch I've written brims with doom and gloom—I've hit on the islands' huge water management issues, the problems with education, and an illegal ongoing sea lion penis harvest, to name a few. I feel like ...