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A striking bird that's been waiting more than 15 years for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to decide whether to list it under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) just got handed another minor delay. USFWS has announced that it's reopening public commen...
The L.A. County desert community of Palmdale is adding urban solar in a big way.
A report just made public by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service documents a disturbing amount of bird injuries at three large California desert solar power plants, and says that there are no easy fixes to the issue.
The roundup of as many as 900 illegally grazed cattle from Nevada public lands continued with nary a hitch on Monday, despite grandiose threats of a "range war" from the livestock's owner.
The debate over whether utility-scale solar projects are right for desert public lands just got more complicated. A new study shows that undisturbed desert landscapes absorb a fair amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, potentially helping to le...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency violated the Clean Air Act when it approved a permit for a large gas-fired power plant that may drive an Endangered butterfly to extinction. That's according to a San Francisco-based environmental group that fil...
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.
Martin Luther King believed that if we fused social and environmental justice we'd build a more perfect union. Let's get to work.
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 small lizard found only on four islands off the southern California coast is being taken off the federal Threatened Species list.
Five retired National Park Service Superintendents who spent a cumulative 35 years managing California's three desert National Parks are asking the Bureau of Land Management to move a 4,000-acre solar project they say would threaten the Mojave National...