As much as a sixth of the total population of an emblematic California bird species faces harm this week, and a prestigious group has gone into emergency mode to prevent a tragedy.
Reckitt Benckiser, which sells a rat poison implicated in the deaths of at least 25 species of wildlife in California,, is suing to prevent a ban on retail sales of its rodenticide. In response, wildlife defenders are calling for a boycott of Reckitt B...
They charge that BLM has failed to track the effects of a wide range of human activities in the California desert on the tortoise, as well as on other Endangered and Threatened desert animal and plant species.
A tiny toad found in a few river canyons in southern California and Baja may see its legal status change if the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has its way.
A bill making its way through Congress would impose strict limits on designations of new National Monuments. In essence, it would gut one of the most powerful legal tools California wildlife has at its disposal.
The companies behind a rejected solar project that would place boilers atop two 750-foot towers near Interstate 10 in Riverside County want their proposal back on the table, according to documents filed with the state's energy agency.
A big proposed residential-commercial development in the East San Francisco Bay city of Dublin just hit a speedbump: an environmental group has taken the city to court, saying that the development would hurt some of Alameda County's last remaining burr...
Political wonks have long talked about "blue dog" and "yellow dog" Democrats, but now California has a new Democratic dog political tendency: the Gray Wolf Democrat.
The California agency responsible for regulating pesticide use in the state has banned household use of rodent poisons that have shown to cause serious damage to the state's wildlife.