The Land of Sacrifice, a new documentary released today by filmmaker Annie Ersinghaus, shows how New Mexico’s fracking boom is heaping health and environmental burdens on frontline communities.

Nations voted today to adopt landmark protections for heavily traded golden sandfish sea cucumbers. But they failed to protect six sea cucumber species in the genus Actinopyga, despite their key role ...

WASHINGTON— The Trump administration released a draft plan today for conducting as many as 34 offshore oil and gas lease sales over the next five years. The plan could open up as much as 1.27 billion ...

OAKLAND, Calif.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Center for Environmental Health filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to protect millions of ...

OAKLAND, Calif.— A federal judge approved a legal agreement today requiring the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to act on smog pollution in the Phoenix-Mesa metro area by Feb. 3, 2026. But the ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity today formally requested a Government Accountability Office investigation of Federal Vacancies Reform Act violations in the acting administrator ...

SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity, represented by Earthjustice, sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to finalize Endangered Species Act protections for California ...

BELEM, Brazil— Advocates dressed in furry jaguar and polar bear costumes will call on country negotiators to lead a rapid and funded fossil fuel phaseout at a demonstration inside the COP30 climate ...

SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan— Officials from around the globe will convene in Samarkand Nov. 24 for the triennial conference of the parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. The ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect the Mule Mountains population of the Yarrow’s spiny lizard under the Endangered ...

SAN FRANCISCO— The California Department of Fish and Wildlife reported late Monday that a new wolf family was confirmed this fall. The Grizzly pack consists of two adults and a pup who have ...

WASHINGTON— Gulf and environmental groups sued the Trump administration today over its decision to hold an offshore oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico despite blatant violations of the law ...