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Good news for frogs and their admirers: the US Fish and Wildlife Service has granted protection to three species of frogs in California -- or more precisely, two frogs and a toad -- under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
a Native tribe that lives along the Klamath River in Northern California is collaborating with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to restore California condors to the North Coast.
For the first time ever scientists have charted the genome of the golden eagle, and what they've found may shoot down one proposed way of making wind turbines safer for the huge birds of prey.
In a move that could have ramifications in drought-stricken California, a group representing irrigators in the Columbia and Snake river basins want to use an obscure federal law to prevent new protection of the area's salmon and steelhead populations.
The California Energy Commission just dealt the final death blow to a proposed solar project that was once one of the most controversial in the California Desert.
Here's an idea that ought to be adopted more widely: students on the UC Riverside campus can now top off the charge on their phones, tablets and laptops at tables on campus run by off-the-grid solar power.
A Navy research and development center that usually focuses on high-tech communication and surveillance matters is working to boost numbers of one of California's most critically endangered marine animals: the black abalone.
Bird deaths continued in March at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System.
The BLM says a proposed 1,100-acre wind energy facility in Kern County would pose no threat to the Endangered California condors living a few miles away.
A small snail found only in a few small hills in the Mojave Desert has launched a public dispute, as mining interests and wildlife advocates spar over whether the species should be granted federal protection.
The campaign to end wildlife killing contests like the annual "Coyote Derby" in Adin, California got a boost this week, as the California Fish and Game Commission voted 3-2 to propose a rule that would ban offering prizes for killing predatory mammals ...
We humans fear what we cannot really understand. So maybe it's time for us Southern Californians to understand earthquakes a bit more. Or maybe even appreciate them.