State game wardens handed out 31 citations and warned several dozen additional fish harvesters at a wildlife law enforcement checkpoint near Jenner, California on Sunday. The checkpoint was part of a mounting effort by the California Department of Fish...
While other websites celebrating Endangered Species Day are concentrating on the big and dramatic, we thought we'd celebrate by mentioning a few species that aren't big and flashy and glamorous. They're beautiful, but they don't flaunt it.
The state and federal agencies responsible for monitoring the health of California's salmon and steelhead runs have announced a new program to help private water rights holders protect fish from the current unprecedented drought.
In January, Caltrans agreed to use safer methods to exclude nesting swallows from a highway construction project in Sonoma County, but the alternative measures used may still be affecting wildlife populations in the long term.
The Redwood National and State Parks have announced that their law enforcement staff arrested a local resident on charges of damaging ancient redwood trees in order to steal their valuable burl wood.
Glaciers and ice sheets in western Antarctica are melting, there's nothing we can do to stop it, and the result will be a 10-foot rise in sea level within the next century or two. That's according to new reports by NASA scientists scheduled for publica...
A grisly blunder Saturday by a tree-trimming crew in Oakland resulted in the deaths of black-crowned night heron chicks, and though the culprits are saying they didn't mean to cause any harm, I'm not buying it.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to take a California beetle off the Endangered Species Act's Threatened list, but two leading environmental groups are charging that the move is based on politics rather than science.
Nearly half of California's birds migrate north each spring to forests that are under threat from climate change and development. A new report on what has…