Bald eagles once neared extinction in Maryland due to DDT. Now, thanks to conservation efforts, their population has soared to 1,400 breeding pairs.

THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT. The United States has one of the world's most powerful legal tools for protecting species at risk of extinction: the Endangered Species Act. Since it was passed by Congress ...

The Endangered Species Act (ESA), often criticized for its perceived economic drawbacks, has a more nuanced and positive impact on property markets than previously thought, a new study has ...

Wilson considered the Endangered Species Act of 1973 the most important piece of conservation legislation in our nation’s history. I know what that means. I know because I lived it.

"When the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, no one fully understood how strong it was and how much it gave final decision and final authority to the Fish and Wildlife Service and to the ...

Since it was passed by Congress and signed by President Nixon near the end of 1973 the Endangered Species Act served as the most powerful defense against natural resource exploitation that harmed ...

A marine biologist captured video of the moment a bowhead whale cracked through a layer of ice in West Greenland to take a ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing added protections for seven species of pangolin under the Endangered Species ...

The Endangered Species Act was established in 1973 to protect "various species of fish, wildlife, and plants in the United States that had been rendered extinct as a consequence of economic growth ...

That interpretation has been a crucial part of how the Endangered Species Act has protected over 1,700 species since its passage in 1973, said Hartl.

The Trump administration intends to overhaul the Endangered Species Act by changing what ... The little freshwater fish swims in Eastern Tennessee rivers and was listed as endangered in 1973, a ...

Wilson considered the Endangered Species Act of 1973 the most important piece of conservation legislation in our nation’s history. I know what that means. I know because I lived it.