Research in the Journal of Applied Ecology has identified threats to endangered plants in an urban area, generating ...

When lawmakers discuss protecting the threatened and endangered species in local habitats, they mostly think about the Florida manatee, the leatherback sea turtle or the red-headed woodpecker. But ...

Plant species that was presumed to be extinct reappears after nearly six decades - Small Australian shrub with delicate pink ...

At least 35,765 species are threatened with extinction. An update to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species has declared 31 animal and plant species ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this September 2020 photo provided by Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, a northeastern bulrush stands in a vernal pool in Tioga ...

A new study estimates that nearly half of the world’s known flowering plants are threatened. Scientists built an AI model using plants they know are threatened or safe, then used it to estimate how ...

(NEW YORK) — An update to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species has declared 31 animal and plant species extinct. That total includes the lost shark, ...

Botanists discovered a new plant species in Colombia that is already endangered, naming it Aphelandra almanegra.

A "strange" prehistoric plant species is the lone representative of a mysterious group of organisms that no longer exists, scientists have discovered. The first evidence of the species—in the form of ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released its draft Insecticide Strategy, a guidance document establishing a framework to protect more than 850 endangered plants and animals ...

The Desert Botanical Garden is running a seed bank program to save endangered Arizona desert plants like orchids and cacti. Seeds from rare species are collected, sealed, and frozen in the Ahern ...

By Victor Nsereko Wantate Many African conservation decisions such as funding, policy, species prioritization and nursery ...