A national wildlife protection group announced today that it intends to sue the U.S Interior Department for failing to protect the federally Endangered Yuma clapper rail from being harmed at industrial-scale solar power projects in the California dese...
In the wake of a recent Associated Press story on bird deaths at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, controversy has arisen over the actual numbers of birds being killed at Ivanpah. We take a look at what's behind the wildly divergent numbers...
Desert solar has become so controversial that when a handful of green groups express support for a 485-megawatt desert solar project in Riverside County, that support is news.
Overruling the strong recommendations of its own scientists, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is withdrawing a proposal to list the North American wolverine as Threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
I don't think I'm the only one who's fallen out of the habit of expecting good times ahead. It's hard to imagine a utopian future for California when the state faces some of the toughest times in its history over the next 50 years. But really, if we're...
A group of independent scientists is speaking out in response to an order from a high-ranking U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official to not protect wolverines under the U. S. Endangered Species Act.
As California's lakes and ponds grow ever smaller in this third year of drought, the state's Department of Fish and Wildlife is warning that wild birds are likely to fall victim to a fatal disease linked to stagnant water, and they're asking for your h...
California's part-time wolf OR-7 started a family this spring, and now there are baby pictures. Hang on to your chair and swallow that mouthful of coffee.
Plans to log over 5,000 acres of burned trees in the Tahoe and Sierra national forests poses a serious threat to wildlife that depends on burned over forests. That's according to two environmental groups that sued the U.S. Forest Service Thursday to st...
A group of environmental organizations is now formally asking Humboldt and Mendocino counties to join Sonoma and Marin counties to their south in cutting off contracts with the federal agency Wildlife Services.
The federal government is seeking public comments on whether or not one of California's rarest and most photogenic predators should be listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
2014 is on track to be one of the worst years for rattlesnake bite in the last decade, according to figures provided by the California Poison Control System